ABC News’ “The View” co-hosts clashed during a segment that descended into chaos Tuesday, as they discussed the results of Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass.) DNA test indicating the lawmaker (shown above center) has anywhere from one-64th to one-1,024th Native American ancestry.

“I don’t know why any politician today thinks they can outbully [President Donald] Trump, because thus far no politician has been successful,” co-host Abby Huntsman said.

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“You get into Trump’s sandbox, you’re not going to win.”

Warren got “into petty politics” by releasing the results of her DNA test in an attempted jab at Trump’s repeated “Pocahontas” jabs, Huntsman warned.

“I found this to be pretty embarrassing for [Warren],” Huntsman added. “I think the majority of this room right here is probably more Native American than Elizabeth Warren is — even the Cherokee tribes’ not wanting to claim her as one of theirs.”

Indeed, Cherokee Nation Secretary of State Chuck Hoskin Jr. said in a statement on Monday, “Using a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and wrong.”

“It makes a mockery out of DNA tests and its legitimate uses while also dishonoring legitimate tribal governments and their citizens, whose ancestors are well documented and whose heritage is proven,” Hoskin added. “Sen. Warren is undermining tribal interests with her continued claims of tribal heritage.”

But “The View” discussion became testy after co-host Whoopi Goldberg pushed back, saying, “No, no, no. Don’t twist this. She was not looking to prove that she wanted to be part of the tribe. What she was doing was saying, ‘This is what I was told as a kid.'”

Warren unveiled her DNA results on Monday. Trump has long mocked Warren as “Pocahontas,” pointing to controversy that arose in 2012 during her first Senate campaign. The Boston Herald exposed her Association of American Law Schools entries from 1986 to 1995 in which she listed herself as a Native American; and when she worked for Harvard University Law School, it listed her as a minority professor.

Although Warren initially denied knowledge of Harvard’s minority label, she later admitted she listed herself as Native American in the law school directory in order to meet other Native Americans.

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Co-host Meghan McCain (above far right) pointed to these facts about Warren: “She may be less Native American than the average U.S. white person.”

Huntsman pointed to a Monday tweet from one of former President Barack Obama’s campaign managers, Jim Messina, who wrote, “Argue the substance all you want, but why 22 days before a crucial election where we MUST win house and senate to save America, why did @SenWarren have to do her announcement now? Why can’t Dems ever stay focused???”

That’s when co-host Joy Behar (above far left) insisted “the whole thing is irrelevant” — and the conversation went haywire.

“It’s not irrelevant,” McCain said.

Behar replied, “Yes, it is.”

“No, it isn’t!” McCain shouted.

Behar said that “what’s more to the point” is focusing on how Republicans “are threatening health care, threatening the climate.” She added, “It’s much more important to not focus on stupid topics like this,” referring to the controversy over Warren’s Native American heritage.

McCain insisted, “It’s not stupid” before pointing out that Democrats would be outraged if a GOP senator ever made the same claims as Warren has.

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“If this were a Republican right now, if this were [Sen.] Ted Cruz [R-Texas] coming out here and saying he’s Native American, it came out he was .009 [percent], all of you would be going crazy,” McCain said.

Behar interrupted, “You don’t know that.”

“I believe a lot of Democrats would be going crazy,” McCain said. “She had called herself Native American. There are videos on the internet I was watching last night when she was talking about how she was part of the Cherokee tribe … It is disrespectful to people who lobby and are part of their tribal communications.”

Watch the tense segment below: