(((▪︎Biden's resurfaced 2007 comments on Iowa, race, education spark backlash▪︎)))

Former Vice President Joe Biden, the leading Democrat in the 2020 White House race, is facing new pushback this week after a series of quotes from 2007 resurfaced online in which he said Iowa had better schools than Washington, D.C., while mentioning their differences in demographics.

"There's less than one percent of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than four of five percent that are minorities. What is in Washington? So look, it goes back to what you start off with, what you're dealing with," Biden told the Washington Post at the time.

"When you have children coming from dysfunctional homes, when you have children coming from homes where there's no books, where the mother from the time they're born doesn't talk to them – as opposed to the mother in Iowa who's sitting out there and talks to them, the kid starts out with a 300 word larger vocabulary at age three. Half this education gap exists before the kid steps foot in the classroom."

Biden's campaign didn't respond to Fox News' request for comment. The campaign said in 2007: "This was not a race-based distinction, but a discussion of the problems kids face who don't have the same socio-economic support system (and all that implies–nutrition, pre K, etc.) entering grade school and the impact of those disadvantages on outcomes."…cont.

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