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Joe Biden has sparked outrage after telling a campaign rally that “poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids”.

The US presidential hopeful was addressing a group of mostly Asian and Hispanic voters at the Iowa State Fair when he made the gaffe.

Quickly realising his mistake, the former vice president added: “And wealthy kids, black kids, Asian kids.”

Mr Biden made the remarks to the Asian and Latino Coalition in Des Moines, where he is on a four-day campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.

The blunder was quickly seized upon by the Trump campaign, which tweeted a clip of the speech from its @TrumpWarRoom account.

Donald Trump Jr swiftly retweeted the post to his 3.7 million followers.

The tweet has since received more than 4,000 comments, most of which ridicule Mr Biden and call his slip-up “the dumbest remark remark he has ever made”.

Mr Biden had been stressing that all kids could achieve equally high standards “if given a shot”, when he made the horrifying error.

“We should challenge students in these schools and have advanced placement programs in these schools,” he said.

“We have this notion that somehow if you’re poor, you cannot do it.

“Poor kids are just as bright, just as talented, as white kids... Wealthy kids, black kids, Asian kids, no I really mean it, but think how we think about it.

“We think how we’re going to dumb it down. They can do anything anybody else can do given a shot."

It came shortly after the 76-year-old mangled a different line during his first campaign speech of the day.

“We choose truth over facts,” he said, instead of “we choose truth over fiction.”

He also referred to himself as “President of the United States” later while responding to a question from DailyMail.com about gun control, according to the website.

On Monday, Mr Biden also confused the locations of the El Paso and Dayton mass shootings.

He expressed sympathy for the “tragic events in Houston today and also in Michigan the day before.

During the Democrat debate last week, he also told supporters to "go to Joe 30330" when he meant to tell them to donate to his campaign by text.