Warren gets front-runner treatment with attacks on claim about being fired while pregnant

Elizabeth Warren is neck-and-neck with longtime front-runner Joe Biden in Democratic presidential primary polls, but her new status has put a political target on her back.

Questions regarding Warren’s claim she lost a teaching job for being pregnant, a central pillar of her personal narrative about why she’s seeking the White House, are the senior senator from Massachusetts’ first brush with controversy during the 2020 cycle since bungling the release last year of a DNA test she took to bolster assertions she’s part Native American.