Even some of Biden’s senior campaign advisers were privately shaken by the remarks. Yet Biden’s campaign appeared unbowed and intent on defending, or at least explaining, his worldview of politics, which is rooted in the 1970s when he came to the Senate and worked with those two Southerners and others he often disagreed with.
Harris and Booker, who are both black, were not alone: Other candidates including Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Bernie Sanders of Vermont also weighed in with criticism.
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