Joe Biden’s presidential campaign addressed uproar about his remark that those who vote for President Trump are not black by saying it was just a joke.

“The comments made at the end of the Breakfast Club interview were in jest, but let’s be clear about what the VP was saying: he was making the distinction that he would put his record with the African American community up against Trump’s any day. Period,” senior adviser Symone Sanders said in a tweet on Friday.

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