by white folks on the both sides of the aisle for grandstanding in advance of a presidential run.

i cant think of a bigger example of 'hey yall look at me...im running soon' than what warren just did.

she could have used her time/platform to bring more awareness to the republican voter suppression efforts against native americans in north dakota.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/12/politics/north-dakota-voter-id-native-americans/index.html

or the fact that the family of the #2 repub in the house (running for speaker/leader) did exactly...or worse than...what repubs are claiming warren had done by claiming native american ancestry in the past.
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-na-pol-mccarthy-contracts-20181014-story.html