Democrat Elizabeth Warren is back on the air in Massachusetts with an ad portraying her as a hard-nosed fighter and highlighting her work to establish a new consumer protection agency.
Warren's campaign called the 30-second positive spot a "major buy running statewide" but declined to provide the size or length of the buy.
The ad features Warren supporters with thick New England accents discussing Warren's background as the daughter of a janitor and calling her "the real deal."
"She told all the Wall Street banks to clean up their act," says one woman in the ad.
"Big banks, institutions, Wall Street — she’s not afraid of anybody," says another.
The ad doesn't mention Brown or the fact that Warren is a Democrat.
Warren's new ad comes as new developments continue to emerge in the controversy over her claim to Native American heritage, which her opponent, Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.), has continually questioned.
The New England Historic Genealogical Society on Tuesday said there was no evidence that Warren had Native American ancestors. And a 1997 story from the Fordham Law Review, spotted by Politico, showed that Harvard Law touted Warren as the faculty's "first woman of color."
- This post was updated at 12:04 p.m.
