The Scoop on Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren’s Dog Bailey

Massachusetts U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is one of those people you love or loathe. There doesn't seem to be a middle ground with this Oklahoma-born transplant who pretended to be Native American to better her chances of rising to the top.

In a recent column, National Review columnist Jeffrey Blehar, host of the Political Beats podcast, had little trouble expressing how he feels about the Bay State's senior senator, calling Warren "a phony who leveraged a fraudulent ethnic identity to climb to the top of academia and subsequently converted it into a lifelong political sinecure."

Blehar referred to Warren as a "useless, officious busybody and hypocrite scold" who practices "retail politics."

His comments were in response to Warren's usual duck and cover, this time from questions about when she knew Joe Biden was out to lunch and not fit to serve a second term.

It reminds me of Warren's unsuccessful and short-lived 2020 presidential bid. Warren finished fourth in her birth state of Oklahoma in the primary, with 13.4 percent of the vote to Joe Biden's first-place showing with 38.7 percent.

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Warren finished third in her adopted state of Massachusetts, from which she was the sitting U.S. Senator, with 21.5 percent to Biden's first-place showing with 33.5 percent.

All the while, Warren chugged beer from a bottle, hugged strange children, rode the subway and walked a dog, all to prove she was human. Blehar nailed it.

What about the dog? Some folks believed Warren borrowed or perhaps rented the dog as a campaign prop.

Warren's dog Bailey was born in May 2018 and belongs to Warren and her Harvard professor husband Bruce H. Mann. They still have Bailey and can be seen walking him from time to time around their Cambridge neighborhood.

Bailey, a male golden retriever named for the lead character George Bailey in the film It's a Wonderful Life, was a gift from Mann to his wife. The couple previously owned a golden retriever named Otis who died in 2012.

While much about Sen. Elizabeth Warren is a show, Bailey is real and was not a campaign prop.