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Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to criticize Mr. Biden, saying the value of his straight-talking persona outweighs his verbal missteps.

“I think that authenticity is the most important characteristic that candidates have to convey to the American people,” Ms. Pelosi told reporters at the Capitol. “Joe Biden is authentic. He has lived his life. He considers certain things a resource, that he has worked across the aisle, that’s what he was saying.”

Mr. Biden’s style cuts a sharp contrast with other 2020 Democratic candidates, who have offered a series of sorrys over everything from sexual harassment in their offices to policies they once embraced. Former Representative Beto O’Rourke of Texas has apologized for, among other things, characterizing his wife as his family’s primary child-rearer, launching his campaign on the cover of Vanity Fair, marrying into a wealthy family and fiction he wrote as a teenager. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts apologized for her decision to take a DNA test to prove her decades-old claim of Native American ancestry. On Thursday, Marianne Williamson apologized for calling vaccine mandates “draconian” and “Orwellian.”

Harold Schaitberger, the head of the International Association of Fire Fighters, which has endorsed Mr. Biden, said Mr. Biden stressed that his actions are more important than his language.

“I understand this is a new generation,” Mr. Schaitberger said Thursday. “It’s not to me about, is your voice or language consistent with this new generation. To me it’s about, what have you done, what have you delivered, what do you stand for?”

That’s not enough for some civil rights advocates.

“It is authentic, but is that the type of authenticity we want? Donald Trump is authentic, too,” said Rashad Robinson, executive director of Color Of Change, a civil rights group. “The question is can a 70-plus man listen and evolve.”