Can Elizabeth Warren Come Back After Her Native American Stunt? A New Granite State Poll Suggests The Answer Might Be No

To me, and perhaps to many other Americans on both sides of the aisle, she will forever be thought of as Pocahontas.

A newly released University of New Hampshire poll asked 604 randomly selected adult residents to name the one candidate they would not support under any circumstances. Elizabeth Warren topped the list with a whopping 13%. The next highest was Bernie Sanders with 8%, followed by Michael Bloomberg at 6% and Kirsten Gillibrand at 4%. The rest of the candidates came in between 0 and 3%.

Would Not Vote For Candidate Under Any Circumstances

Elizabeth Warren: 13%

Bernie Sanders: 8%

Michael Bloomberg: 6%

Kirsten Gillibrand: 4%

Cory Booker: 3%

Kamala Harris: 3%

Joe Biden: 3%

Beto O’Rourke: 2%

Tulsi Gabbard: 2%

Julian Castro: 1%

Pete Buttgieg: 1%

Amy Klobuchar: 1%

John Hickenlooper: 0%

John Delaney: 0%

Someone Else: 4%

Don’t Know/Not Sure: 35%

None/All Are OK: 15%

*Credit: University of New Hamphire Granite State Poll: https://scholars.unh.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1551&context=survey_center_polls

One possible reason why these particular candidates scored so highly might be they have higher name recognition than most of the others. However, every American is familiar with Joe Biden who came in at 3%. And Beto O’Rourke’s senate battle against Sen. Ted Cruz thrust him into the national spotlight.

Moreover, the same poll found that Warren’s support has dropped from 17% in August 2018 to its current level of 7%.

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President Trump has mocked Warren relentlessly over her claims of Native American ancestry and on several occasions, has pledged to donate $1 million to the charity of her choice if she would take a DNA test to prove it. “Her mother says, ‘She has high cheekbones, that’s why,’” Trump said. “And she’s gotten a lot of advantages by falsely claiming what she’s claiming.”

In October, Warren unwisely released the results of a private DNA analysis which showed that she is anywhere from 1/512 to 1/1024 Native American. The report indicated there was “strong evidence” of Native American ancestry “going back six to 10 generations.” This move was widely criticized and derided on both sides of the aisle.

Warren was ridiculed for a week by the media for this self-inflicted wound. Warren hoped it would pass as many political miscalculations do and that voters would forget about it.

For many Americans, however, this issue runs far deeper; it reflects directly on Warren’s lack of candor and integrity.

This wasn’t just an impromptu claim she made up on the campaign trail. Conservatives have criticized Warren, a former law professor, for using her claim of Native American ancestry to gain an advantage in the academic world, where there is a strong emphasis on diversity in hiring.

According to the Boston Globe, Warren changed her ethnicity from white to Native American at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she worked from 1987 to 1995. She began working as a tenured professor at Harvard University Law School in 1995. Four months after she started, she changed her ethnicity from white to Native American in Harvard’s human resources system.

The weekend after Warren released the genetic analysis, she participated in a Senate candidate debate against her opponent, Republican State Representative Geoff Diehl.

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