Was it Candy Crush? Or Facebook? Or maybe Clash of Clans?
Whatever it was, a pastor at Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church found something on his phone more interesting than Hillary Clinton speech during Sunday’s service in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
The church’s associate pastor introduced Clinton and held an impromptu conversation via Facetime between the presidential candidate and the absent Pastor Damian Epps.
Video from Clinton’s speech shows the associate pastor intermittently looking at his phone, appearing to take pictures and photos.
But then midway through the speech — for nearly three solid minutes — the pastor appears to completely check out from the candidate’s remarks, staring at his screen as parishioners clap and cheer for Clinton.
She recollected the time when President Obama called and asked her to serve in his cabinet, a story that would undoubtedly go over well in a predominantly African-American audience.
While another pastor on the stage clapped at Clinton’s applause lines, the other seemed more interested in scrolling through his phone.
The latest Iowa poll show Clinton and surging rival Bernie Sanders are neck-and-neck in the state. A CBS/YouGov survey released Sunday shows Sanders up by 1 percentage point.
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