Warren says she isn't running for president, but there's some wiggle room in comments

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. said Sunday she’s not running for president on NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” but it wasn’t exactly a full-throated denial. 

Warren refused to “pledge” to serve her full six years in the Senate if reelected despite being pressed several times by Todd.

“I am in this fight to retain my Senate seat in 2018. That’s where I’m focused. That’s where I’m going to stay focused,” Warren said in the interview. “I’m not running for president.”

Warren’s rounds of the Sunday morning talk shows did seem to suggest some higher aspirations.

On “Fox News Sunday” with John Roberts, Warren was asked if she’d be willing to take a DNA test to put the issue of her Native American ancestry to rest. Warren, who President Trump continues to refer to derisively as “Pocahontas,” insisted again that her mother was part Native American. 

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Warren said her parents grew up in Oklahoma and although her father fell “head over heels in love” with her mother, “his family was bitterly opposed to that because she was part Native American.”

“I know who I am because of what my mother and my father told me, what my grandmother and my grandfather told me, what all my aunts and uncles told me and my brothers,” she said. “It’s a part of who I am and no one’s ever going to take that away.”

Warren vowed to continue defending Native Americans. 

“I went to speak to Native American tribal leaders and I made a promise to them that every time President Trump wants to try to throw out some kind of racial slur, he wants to attack me, I’m going to use it as a chance to lift up their stories,” she said. 

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