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Though the host group was made up of Asian and Latino activists, the crowd Mr. Biden was addressing Thursday was largely white.

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The comments, which were captured on video and were part of a lengthy speech, were quickly circulated by President Trump’s re-election campaign and other critics of the former vice president. Mr. Trump has a record of making incendiary comments about race, including saying that Mexicans are criminals and rapists and that there were “very fine people on both sides” of a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va. He more recently said that four congresswomen of color should “go back” to the countries they came from, even though three were born in the United States and the fourth is a naturalized citizen.

In a statement Friday, Kate Bedingfield, Mr. Biden’s deputy campaign manager, said Mr. Trump’s campaign was seeking to turn attention away from “his atrocious record of using racism to divide this country.”

“Vice President Biden misspoke and immediately corrected himself during a refrain he often uses to make the point that all children deserve a fair shot, and children born into lower-income circumstances are just as smart as those born to wealthy parents,” Ms. Bedingfield said. “Joe Biden has spent his life fighting for civil rights and the dignity of all people.”

Still, the verbal slip-up by Mr. Biden, 76, comes as his record on race has become a central focus of the early months of the Democratic primary.