Some are still feeling the Bern.
Just days before final votes are cast, former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders discussed the lack of focus on the policy differences between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in Ames.
Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont who challenged Clinton for the Democratic nomination, has been campaigning for Clinton, including stops at all of Iowa’s public universities this weekend.
“Hillary Clinton has a very different perspective [and] she understands what Donald Trump does not understand,” Sanders said.
People poured into the Scheman Building at the Iowa State Center in Ames on Saturday to see the Vermont Senator speak on the election and stump for Clinton. […]
However, not everyone agreed on that statement. Kaleb Vanfosson, president of the Students for Bernie group at Iowa State and a sophomore in political science, gave a protest speech at the event.
Vanfosson was scheduled to give a speech about Sanders and Clinton supporters uniting, but instead gave a speech about “how terrible Hillary is.”
In the speech, Vanfosson said while Donald Trump, a “part-time reality star and full-time bigot,” doesn’t care about student loan debt, neither does Clinton.
“She is so trapped in the world of the elite,” Vanfosson said. “She has completely lost grip of what it’s like to be an average person.”
Vanfosson said the only thing Clinton cares about is the billionaires that fund her election. The student added there was no point in voting for the “lesser of two evils.”
As seen in a video of Vanfosson’s speech posted on YouTube, eventually a member from the campaign got to Vanfosson and is seen leading him off stage. Vanfosson told the Iowa State Daily that while being escorted out he was “basically assaulted.” Vanfosson said he does have footage of the incident.