How does this go?
The man who is set to become a major-party presidential nominee is now going after a woman who is campaigning as a surrogate for the other party’s presumed nominee.
And what is his line of attack? He is calling her “Pocahontas” as an epithet.
Let’s back up for a moment.
The presumed GOP nominee Donald J. Trump is now going after Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who today campaigned alongside presumed Democratic nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Why? Well, Warren has declared that she has some Native AmericanĀ heritage in her background. Trump doesn’t believe it. Thus, he has hung the “Pocahontas” label on her.
What’s more, Republicans are now bringing out the man Warren defeated to become the U.S. senator from Massachusetts — former Sen. Scott Brown — to refute Warren’s claims of Native American heritage.
I don’t get this.
Why is that even an issue? Why is Trump obsessing over whether Warren actually has a tiny bit of Native American heritage in her background.
Warren is now being vetted as a potential running mate with Clinton. Rather than challenging her record as a U.S. senator, Trump has chosen to attack her ethnicity.
He calls her a “fraud” because she hasn’t proved that she actually has some Cherokee Indian ancestry in her background.
Let’s be clear here: Elizabeth Warren isn’t running for anything. She’s a surrogate for another accomplished woman, Hillary Clinton.
Shouldn’t the presumptive GOP nominee concentrate on policy differences he has with the presumptive Democratic nominee?
Oh, wait! First, he needs to reveal that he has any policy views in the first place.