'Ben Sasse is a**': Students give Nebraska senator hostile reception as he interviews for University of Florida job

Students and faculty at the University of Florida gave Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) a hostile reception at their campus in Gainesville after he was announced as a finalist to be the university's next president.

Hundreds of protesters gathered outside Emerson Alumni Hall, where Sasse was scheduled to participate in a Q&A forum with students on Monday. Minutes after the forum started, an estimated 300 anti-Sasse demonstrators entered the building and began chanting and banging on the hallway walls outside the President's Ballroom, where Sasse was trying to answer questions.

"Hey hey, ho ho, Ben Sasse has got to go," the protesters yelled. They carried signs reading, "Keep Sasse out of our swamp" and "Ben Sasse is ass."

The demonstration was filmed by reporters for the Alligator, a campus newspaper.

The shouting from the protesters drowned out Sasse's responses, and the Q&A session was cut short 15 minutes ahead of schedule, according to the Alligator.