So @JoeBiden made a gaffe about being black. It happens, he is well-meaning. Trump makes hundreds worse every day. It's news because @JoeBiden does it so seldom.

Here is the political consequence: it makes Biden that much more likely now to pick @KamalaHarris as his VP.

Vice President Biden has a lifetime of friendship with and service to African-American voters. He does not, obviously, mean to offend them. But that joke will have offended some. @KamalaHarris has always been at the top of the list. Her chances just went up a little further.

In the interim I would recommend to his comms team cc @SymoneDSanders a quick, heartfelt apology, so a gaffe intended as a well-meaning joke doesn't get abused by Trump trolls who'd love to chip away at Biden's rock solid African-American support in the polls.