Iowa ā€” It was an inauspicious start for Ron DeSantis in Iowa on Friday.

Chanting ā€œRon DeFascistā€ and ā€œpudding fingersā€ on a megaphone while ringing cowbells, two protesters effectively cut short the Florida governorā€™s first campaign stop of the day at a large roadside rock painted for war veterans.

It was the second notable disruption of a Republican presidential candidate by the left in Iowa this week, after a Democrat on Thursday asked Mike Pence at the Iowa State Fair, ā€œWhy did you commit treason on Jan. 6?ā€

At the DeSantis event, Kara Ryan of Des Moines said she and her aunt, Heather Ryan, were there on behalf of a political action committee called ā€œBitches Get Stuff Done,ā€ that supports abortion rights.

A man there to support DeSantis, wearing a hat given out by his aligned super PAC, Never Back Down, at one point tried to stop the noise by attempting unsuccessfully to knock the megaphone out of Heather Ryanā€™s hands.

DeSantis, joined by his wife Casey, still tried to give remarks.

ā€œPeople like that,ā€ he said, referring to the two protesters drowning him out, ā€œare whatā€™s holding this country back.ā€

The handful of veterans gathered erupted in applause. But the event was hurried, DeSantisā€™ meeting with the veterans brief.

DeSantis is set to appear at events in several other Iowa towns Friday as part of his 99-county tour, before attending the Iowa state fair on Saturday.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      Itā€™s not the left who is calling him out on it, itā€™s his fellow conservatives. Weā€™re mostly enjoying Trumpā€™s one good nickname ever- Meatball Ron.