Biden’s comment that African Americans who support President Trump “ain’t black,” a remark for which he was forced to apologize as it threatens to cost him support among that crucial Democratic voting bloc.

Biden, said the former vice president shouldn’t have made the remarks.

“Look, [the] vice president shouldn’t have said it, he apologized for it,” Ms.

Demings called on President Trump, whose campaign slammed the remarks as “racist and dehumanizing,” to engage in a real debate about race in America.

Biden himself later said he should not have been so cavalier with the comments and that he wasn’t taking the black vote for granted.

Rahm Emanuel, the former Chicago mayor and chief of staff to President Obama, on Sunday said the comments violated a cardinal rule of politics that campaigns have to project that they’re fighting to earn every single vote.

Biden to choose a black female as a running mate.

Emanuel said.

“And I think I give the Biden campaign credit for immediately jumping on it and trying to deflate it.

Charlamagne tha God said the black community is looking for major policy commitments from Mr.

“The apology is cool, but the best apology is actually a black agenda,” he said Sunday on MSNBC.

“You can’t act like this is the most important election ever but run a campaign from your basement and not make some real policy commitments to the black community, not listen to some of the demands that the black community [is] making,” he said.

“While Joe Biden’s incessant record of racism has never been vetted by the mainstream media conglomerates, we will no longer let white liberal elitists or the fake news media define what it means to be Black in this country,” said Trump campaign senior adviser Katrina Pierson.

Biden about reparations for slavery and why the former vice president doesn’t necessarily support full-blown legalization of marijuana at the federal level, rather than decriminalization

“He has to do something that energizes his campaign, that brings some actual enthusiasm to his campaign so those 4.4 million Obama voters who stayed home in 2016 — more than a third of them black — don’t do that this year,” he said