Sen. Warren says she’s not running for president

But she stops short of pledge to serve full term

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said Sunday on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that she’s not running for president, 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.

“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,” 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.

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.”

Warren vowed to continue defending Native Americans. “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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