Joe Biden apologized for saying in an interview on "The Breakfast Club" on Friday morning that African-American voters deciding between him and President Donald Trump "ain't black."
The CBS News reporter Ed O'Keefe tweeted that Biden said on a call of black business leaders: "I should not have been so cavalier. I've never, never, ever taken the African American community for granted."
At the end of Biden's "Breakfast Club" interview, after the host Charlamagne Tha God asked him to come back on the radio show to answer more questions, Biden said: "You got more questions? Well, I'm telling you: If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black."
In a statement on Twitter, Symone Sanders, a senior Biden campaign adviser, said that Biden "spent his career fighting alongside and for the African American community" and that the remarks were a joke.


Former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee, apologized on Friday afternoon for saying in a morning interview on the popular radio show "The Breakfast Club" that African-American voters deciding between him and President Donald Trump "ain't black."

The CBS News reporter Ed O'Keefe tweeted that Biden said on a call of black business leaders with the US Black Chambers: "I should not have been so cavalier. I've never, never, ever taken the African American community for granted."

Biden also said he "shouldn't have been such a wise guy," adding that "no one should have to vote for any party based on their race, their religion, their background," O'Keefe tweeted.

In the "Breakfast Club" interview, the host Charlamagne Tha God asked Biden some tough questions about his record on issues affecting black communities and his commitment to African-American voters.

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He surely ain't black enough