An adviser for Joe Biden defended him in a Wednesday interview on MSNBC, after the former vice president faced backlash for invoking two segregationist senators he worked with as an example of the Senate’s bygone civility.
Biden used Sens. James O. Eastland of Mississippi and Herman Talmadge of Georgia, both of whom had a history of racism, as an example during a Tuesday fundraiser of how there was a time when senators were able to overcome political differences to work together.
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