COLUMBIA, S.C. — Jesse Jackson argued former Vice President Joe Biden comments about working with segregationists while serving in the Senate cannot be compared to President Trump’s race rhetoric.

“Joe made… He expressed a truth unartfully,” Jackson told the Washington Examiner on the sidelines of the South Carolina Democratic Party convention. “He didn’t say it well, he used a bad example. But you can’t compare what Joe said with Trump — birther movement, Charlottesville, calling Africa s-hole. You can’t compare that unartful expression with that ideological commitment by Trump.”

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