{"id":2645150,"date":"2026-08-14T13:21:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T17:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flanagans-senate-bid-reopens-warrens-native-american-controversy-joe-concha\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T13:23:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T17:23:31","slug":"flanagans-senate-bid-reopens-warrens-native-american-controversy-joe-concha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flanagans-senate-bid-reopens-warrens-native-american-controversy-joe-concha\/","title":{"rendered":"Flanagan&#8217;s Senate bid reopens Warren&#8217;s Native American controversy: Joe Concha"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fflanagans-senate-bid-reopens-warrens-native-american-controversy-joe-concha%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2645150&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Joe Concha, a Washington Examiner columnist, mocked Senator Elizabeth Warren\u2019s Native American heritage claim after Peggy Flanagan, Minnesota Democratic Senate nominee and member of the White Earth Nation, announced her run as the &#8220;first Native American woman&#8221; senator. concha sarcastically suggested Flanagan should visit Warren to clear up the record,implying Warren falsely claimed Native American heritage,referencing her controversial DNA test results from 2018 that showed she had only a tiny fraction of Native American DNA. Warren later apologized to the Cherokee Nation for sharing those results, and her prior identification as an &#8220;American Indian&#8221; on a 1986 legal document is noted. Concha criticized Warren for her inconsistent claims and questioned why politicians rarely admit when they are wrong, especially regarding her Heritage. The article also mentions ongoing political attacks, including GOP criticism of Flanagan and other campaign issues.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Washington Examiner <\/em>columnist <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/joe-concha\/\">Joe Concha<\/a> mocked Sen. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/elizabeth-warren\/\">Elizabeth Warren\u2019s<\/a> (D-MA) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/native-americans\/\">Native American<\/a> heritage claim after Minnesota Democratic Senate nominee Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan announced she is running as the \u201cfirst Native American woman\u201d senator if elected to the United States Senate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI mean, Peggy Flanagan, she better break out that old peace pipe and get over to Sen. Warren\u2019s tipi like pronto, and make sure she corrects the record, or Liz Warren may inflict the ultimate punishment and campaign with her down the stretch while saying \u2018that\u2019s my kind of girl,\u2019\u201d Concha said on Fox News\u2019s <em>Hannity<\/em> Thursday. <\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4687496\/sherrod-brown-jon-husted-ohio-senate-poll\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Sherrod Brown leads Jon Husted in Ohio Senate poll as inflation fuels voter concerns<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4687521\/flanagan-get-to-warren-tipi-before-she-steals-native-american-title-joe-concha\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Flanagan better \u2018get to Warren\u2019s tipi pronto\u2019 before she steals Native American Senator title: Joe Concha<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4683661\/catalina-lauf-new-book-congress\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Catalina Lauf takes on the \u2018swamp\u2019 in her new book. Now she wants a seat in it.<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cUnless you\u2019re counting senators that have 1\/1024th the DNA of a Native American, then Peggy Flanagan did not break that ceiling, that was Liz Warren,\u201d Concha said. \u201cAnd for her to try to steal that title from her, oh boy, there\u2019s going to be some real problems the next time these two try to get together on the campaign trail.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Flanagan is Ojibwe and a member of the White Earth Nation. According to her <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/peggyflanagan.com\/\">campaign website<\/a>, \u201cIf elected, she\u2019ll be the first Native American woman to ever serve in the U.S. Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"406\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 720 \/ 406;\" width=\"720\" controls src=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2026-08-13-Grabien-Fox_News_Channel_FNC-Hannity-3678964.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2018, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/507697\/associated-press-calls-elizabeth-warrens-dna-results-proof-of-her-heritage\/\">Warren was criticized<\/a> over the accuracy of DNA test results she released to show she had Native American heritage. In 2019, Warren apologized to the Cherokee Nation for publicly sharing the test results. The Democratic Massachusetts senator had previously identified herself as an \u201cAmerican Indian\u201d on a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/127194\/elizabeth-warren-identified-herself-as-american-indian-on-1986-document\/\">1986 registration card<\/a> for the State Bar of Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4685312\/gop-minnesota-fraud-attacks-peggy-flanagan-tim-walz-senate\/\"><strong>GOP SHARPENS MINNESOTA FRAUD ATTACKS AFTER TIM WALZ DEPUTY WINS SENATE NOMINATION<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fox News anchor Sean Hannity asked Concha why politicians fail to admit when they are wrong. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat\u2019s the thing, Sean,\u201d Concha said. \u201cEven after the DNA test comes out and says she has 1\/1024 the genetic lineage of a Native American, she actually went on social media and said, \u2018See? I was right!\u2019 I mean, what the hell? Just say that you got it wrong, or maybe you heard the story wrong, and you used it to get by in your career. It\u2019s a whole bowl of wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concha mocks Warren\u2019s Native heritage claim amid Flanagan run<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4259,"featured_media":2645151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-collage-kobei7ybg-1786718783964-e1786720470428.jpg?1786707585&amp;w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[34813,84179,34723],"class_list":["post-2645150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-elizabeth-warren","tag-native-american-controversy","tag-senate-race"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-collage-kobei7ybg-1786718783964-e1786720470428.jpg?1786707585&amp;w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2645150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2645154,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645150\/revisions\/2645154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2645151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2645150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2645150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2645150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}