PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The intense is-she-or-isn’t-she debate over Elizabeth Warren’s Cherokee heritage that has dogged her campaign shows that Scott Brown wants to “talk about anything except how he votes,” the Democratic Senate candidate told TPM on Friday. “Scott Brown knows that if that’s what we talk about, he’s in big trouble in Massachusetts.”Brown has tried to capitalize on the controversy surrounding Warren’s claims that she is 1/32 Cherokee, and received minority status from her former employers, arguing in a fundraising plea that the incident shows she can’t be trusted. But recent polls show, the dust-up has not affected Warren’s favorability ratings, and the race remains one of the tightest contests in the 2012 election cycle. Warren said she took her time weighing in on the issue herself because, “I wanted to make sure that I was right before I spoke.”
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