US Senator Elizabeth Warren says she's running for president, adding a fierce advocate of economic populism to an already crowded field of Democrats vying for the presidency in 2020. Warren, a Harvard Law School professor-turned-politician, may be the most well-known figure to enter the presidential race. Trump invoked the controversy when he ridiculed Warren on Saturday, tweeting: "Will she run as our first Native American presidential candidate, or has she decided that after 32 years, this is not playing so well anymore?" The storm over Warren's ancestry claims deepened when she sought to neutralise the attacks by releasing a DNA analysis in October, which said that she likely has a Native American ancestor "6-10 generations ago". The Cherokee Nation blasted Warren for the test, which they said was a false claim to tribal membership, leading the senator to apologise.

Source: Ethiopian News February 09, 2019 19:50 UTC