Senator pushes to revive Redskins logo for Washington Commanders | US News [Video]

After a years-long battle to jettison the widely attacked “Redskins” name from Washington’s NFL team, a Republican senator is battling to revive the old logo featuring a depiction of a Native American chief and feathers.

“We have had good discussions with the NFL and with the Commanders. There’s good faith … negotiations going forward that’s going to allow this logo to be used again,” Montana Sen. Steve Daines insisted in an interview.

The team is now known as the Washington Commanders after its “Redskins” name and logo dumped when it was attacked by Native Americans, supporters and sponsors as racist. President-elect Donald Trump mocked the name-changing move at the time as ridiculously “politically correct.”

Daines’s push to revive the logo has emerged in the wake of a bipartisan billsupported by the Commanders and District of Columbia officials aimed at revitalizing the shuttered RFK stadium in D.C. to bring the team back from its current home in the nearby …