Joe Biden made a glaring gaffe and said poor kids are ‘just as smart as white kids’

In a glaring gaffe, former vice president Joe Biden told a group of mostly minority voters in Iowa that “poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids,” while discussing discrimination faced by low-income students.

“We have this notion that somehow if you’re poor, you cannot do it. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids,” he told the crowd during a town hall hosted by the Asian & Latino Coalition in Des Moines.

After a brief pause, he clarified on those remarks, saying, “wealthy kids, black kids, Asian kids, no, I really mean it, but think how we think about it.”

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