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Elizabeth Warren's Native American heritage has become a major source of contention for the 2020 candidate. Here's everything you need to know.

Ellen Cranley,Ellen Cranley,Benjamin Goggin   

Elizabeth Warren's Native American heritage has become a major source of contention for the 2020 candidate. Here's everything you need to know.
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  • Political opponents and critics have seized on Sen. Elizabeth Warren's claim that she is Native American for years. 
  • Even after the released of DNA test results that indicated Native American ancestry, Warren has been targeted by figures like President Donald Trump, who still rejects Warren's claim.
  • In her first stop as a likely candidate for 2020, Warren drew a clear line in the sand about the issue, but her claims have been picked apart for years and criticism doesn't seem to be dying down. 

Less than a week after launching an exploratory committee for a presidential run in 2020, Sen. Elizabeth Warren hit the campaign trail, starting with a town hall in Iowa. 

An audience member asked Warren about her decision to release the results of a DNA test after nearly two years of back-and-forth with President Donald Trump over her claims that she has Native American ancestry. 

This is the second campaign that has been tinged with confusion over Warren's claim, the first of which ended as a victorious flip of a Massachusetts Senate seat.

From a DNA test to tribal statements, here's everything you need to know about the controversy. 

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