Speaking Monday at a Washington, D.C. forum hosted by the Poor People’s Campaign, former Vice President Joe Biden bragged about helping now-Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) get elected in his 2017 special election campaign.

Seemingly trying to boost his own progressive bonafides for his 2020 presidential campaign, Biden during the forum contrasted his role as a Jones campaign surrogate with the mostly black group of politicians who also campaigned in the Yellowhammer State for the now junior senator. This included civil rights icons like Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), as well as Alabama’s own Rep. Terri Sewell (AL-07).

“I’m the only person who went and campaigned for the senator in Alabama,” Biden asserted. “I was the only person invited down there to speak — not the only one, the only one not a person of color.”

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Jones has announced his support of Biden’s presidential primary bid and has also vowed to back whomever the Democrats ultimately nominate against President Donald Trump in 2020, no matter how radical that individual is.

At the same Monday forum, Biden told moderator Joy Reid of MSNBC that “you can shame people to do things the right way.”

Sean Ross is a staff writer for Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on Twitter @sean_yhn