Spartanburg, South Carolina (CNN) Former Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday that when picking a running mate, he would prefer someone who was "of color and/or a different gender."

"Whomever I pick, preferably it will be someone who was of color and/or a different gender, but I'm not making that commitment until I know that the person I'm dealing with I can completely and thoroughly trust as authentic and on the same page [as me]," Biden said while speaking to a roundtable of black journalists

The comment echoed previous statements he's made. When asked by CNN's Chris Cuomo in July if he would need to have a female running mate, Biden replied, "I think it'd be great to have a female VP."

But Biden has long added the caveat he would need to be "simpatico" with any future running mate.

"Here's the first thing about being a VP I've learned and that is in today's environment there's so much a president has on his or her plate. They need someone that they completely trust, that they're simpatico with, have the same approach, political approach and you can delegate significant authority," he told Cuomo.

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