A female staffer for Jared Polis, the Democratic nominee for governor in Colorado, angrily confronted a conservative activist at a public political event and grabbed the activist's phone out of his hand.

Mara Sheldon, Polis's communications director, confronted activist Jovanni Valle at the event, which was headlined by Bernie Sanders. Valle was asking female members of the crowd about whether Polis can be considered a "feminist" after he admitted to police in the late 1990s that he pushed his female employee.