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Andrea Mitchell

MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell battled hard for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on "Meet The Press" Sunday, as she tried to deflect heat from his "you ain't black" comments.

Host Chuck Todd began by playing the clip of Biden's appearance on "The Breakfast Club," followed by a clip of the former vice president apologizing for his remark. Todd then pointed out the Trump campaign "already spending $1 million in digital ads, trying to take advantage of this. They're selling t-shirts with a hashtag on it. I don’t know whether that is showing a Trump campaign that is nimble or a Trump campaign that is searching for anything to chip away at Joe Biden."

Mitchell responded by decrying Trump's attempting to seize on Biden's statement and pointed the finger at the president for his so-called "awful" record on race relations:

They’re searching for anything negative, and they are nimble and far more nimble than Biden. The Biden campaign was taking credit for having responded around 3:30 Friday afternoon, but that interview was taped the night before. They really wasted way too much time. And the African-American Biden supporters whom I had on my program at noon just lashed out about it; that no white person, no white politician, should tell any black person what it is to be black. The fact, though, is that the Biden people, I think correctly point out that Donald Trump’s record on race relations is…is so awful compared to Joe Biden’s. But Joe Biden shouldn’t be reaching back to the crime bill, where he is vulnerable, or the Voting Rights Act.

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