{"id":756065,"date":"2021-09-15T17:06:07","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T21:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=756065"},"modified":"2021-09-15T17:06:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T21:06:09","slug":"kindred-spirits-pocahontas-endorses-senate-candidate-who-lied-about-academic-credentials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kindred-spirits-pocahontas-endorses-senate-candidate-who-lied-about-academic-credentials\/","title":{"rendered":"KINDRED SPIRITS: Pocahontas Endorses Senate Candidate Who Lied About Academic Credentials"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fkindred-spirits-pocahontas-endorses-senate-candidate-who-lied-about-academic-credentials%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=756065&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/warren-barnes.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.), sometimes referred to as &#8220;Pocahontas,&#8221; has thrown her support behind a fellow Democrat with a similar history of education-related lies.<\/p>\n<p>The controversial senator and failed presidential candidate this week endorsed Wisconsin lieutenant governor Mandela Barnes, who is running for Senate and is best known for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2019\/08\/08\/mandela-barnes-now-says-he-didnt-graduate-college\/1956383001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lying<\/a> about graduating from college. Warren is the highest-profile Democrat to weigh in on the Wisconsin Senate primary, which will determine who takes on incumbent Sen. Ron Johnson (R., Wis.) in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Nine months after his election as lieutenant governor in 2018, Barnes admitted to lying about his academic credentials. When the&nbsp;<em>Milwaukee Journal Sentinel <\/em>interviewed him that year, Barnes said multiple times that he &#8220;finished&#8221; college in 2008. A subsequent profile stated that Barnes &#8220;graduated [from Alabama A&amp;M University] with a degree in mass communications in 2008.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Barnes made similar claims in interviews during the election with a variety of state media outlets. His campaign even promoted a <em>Huntsville Times<\/em>&nbsp;story headlined &#8220;Alabama A&amp;M graduate becomes first black lieutenant governor of Wisconsin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t until August 2019 that Barnes &#8220;voluntarily&#8221; disclosed his lie, telling a Madison newspaper that his claims to have graduated from college were <a href=\"https:\/\/isthmus.com\/news\/cover-story\/wisconsin-lt-gov-mandela-barnes-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">false<\/a>. &#8220;I had a class. I got an incomplete. I completed the coursework to get that incomplete resolved. It never got turned in,&#8221; Barnes said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a small technical thing.&#8221; He eventually finished his degree and received a diploma in May 2020.<\/p>\n<p>If elected in 2022, Barnes will join an illustrious group of Democratic senators who have achieved political success despite their records of academic dishonesty. President Joe Biden, for example, has a long history of plagiarism. Warren, meanwhile, has falsely claimed to be an &#8220;American Indian&#8221; throughout her decades-long career as a law professor and was even touted as the &#8220;first woman of color&#8221; to teach at Harvard Law School. A DNA test <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/scientist-warren-1-32th-1-512th-native-american-heritage\/\">revealed<\/a>&nbsp;in 2018 that Warren was between 1\/64th and 1\/1,024th Native American.<\/p>\n<p>Warren also faced scrutiny for saying she was fired from her job as a public school teacher after she became pregnant. Investigative journalism cast considerable <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/county-records-contradict-warrens-claim-she-was-fired-over-pregnancy\/\">doubt<\/a> on Warren&#8217;s account, though her failure in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary was largely due to her unlikable personality.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, Warren traveled to New Mexico for the wedding of Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, an actual Native American. Warren and other attendees were <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/democrats-maskless-wedding\/\">spotted<\/a> violating the state&#8217;s indoor mask mandate, putting countless lives at risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.), sometimes referred to as &#8220;Pocahontas,&#8221; has thrown her support behind a fellow Democrat with a similar history of education-related lies. 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