The White House launched into damage control mode Thursday to deal with the growing chorus of Republicans and at least one Democrat accusing Vice President Biden of race-baiting after Biden told a mostly black crowd in Virginia that Republicans want to “put y’all back in chains.”

Biden’s comments were “without question” a racial appeal, said former Virginia Gov. Doug Wilder, a Democrat and the nation’s first elected African-American governor.

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