In the lead up to the 2020 US presidential election and the party primaries, Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren led President  Donald Trump  by four percentage points in the  polls. Warren fared better than Joe Biden and the remaining candidates and was the most realistic candidate to win the presidential Democratic ticket. Warren was on the rise.  Surveys showed  that she was the favorite among Democratic voters, but there was a concern about her popularity among other voters. Perhaps it was that concern that prompted Warren to take a bold move. It was not about school loan forgiveness or fighting corruption; those ideas were taunted by most Democratic candidates. Warren’s move was more personal.

Testing Warren’s DNA for Native American Ancestry

Warren believed that one of her ancestors was a Native American and that she carries a Native American heritage. Already in 1986, Warren identified as “American Indian” on a  registration card for the State Bar of Texas , according to a Washington Post report. Warren is like many other people who have heard family stories about their heritage being  Native American,  Jewish, or of another background, but possibly without concrete evidence to validate these stories; however, those people do not all run for the presidency. When this information surfaced, Warren was criticized and insulted, with claims that she invented this heritage. She decided to take a  DNA test  for her ancestry, a reasonable decision, but…