ABC News reporter Liz Kreutz took a tour of Hillary Clinton’s Iowa campaign headquarters in Des Moines Wednesday. With camera in tow, Kreutz discovered a group of foreign exchange students from China working in a back room as volunteers for the campaign.
The high-school-aged students, who told Kreutz they came from Beijing and the Dongbei region of China, said they found out about volunteering for the campaign from their teacher and were spending their time writing letters to Iowa voters to encourage them to vote for Clinton. The students said they sign their first names to the letters but do not inform the recipients they are exchange students from China.
The students also told Kreutz they had heard of Clinton, Donald Trump, and Mike Huckabee before coming to the United States, but that they did not know much about Iowa. Watch the video below:
This is not the first time Chinese nationals have been involved in a campaign involving Clinton. During her husband Bill Clinton’s reelection bid in 1996, allegations arose that Democratic party fundraisers had connections from foreign sources in China and were attempting to funnel money illegally into the Democratic coffers, including the Clinton legal defense fund. Several were convicted of federal crimes.
Wealthy Chinese nationals have also donated to the Clinton Foundation and to one-time DNC chairman Terry McAuliffe, a close friend of the Clinton family who is now the governor of Virginia.
