Austin Bird sat for coffee on Tuesday morning in the town of LeClaire , Davenport , chatting with Hillary Clinton as photographers snapped pictures . News reports called him a 'student ' and her campaign called it an unscripted event . But Clinton 's Davenport political director Troy Price drove Bird and two other people to the coffee house . Bird is a hospital government relations official who interned with Barack Obama 's 2012 presidential campaign . The Davenport Democratic Party , which Price ran until a month ago , tasked him to be Joe Biden 's driver during an October Senate campaign trip in Iowa .
Austin Bird sat for coffee on Tuesday morning in the town of LeClaire , Iowa , chatting with Hillary Clinton as photographers snapped pictures . News reports called him a 'student ' and her campaign called it an unscripted event . But Clinton 's Iowa political director Troy Price drove Bird and two other people to the coffee house . Bird is a hospital government relations official who interned with Barack Obama 's 2012 presidential campaign . The Iowa Democratic Party , which Price ran until a month ago , tasked him to be Joe Biden 's driver during an October Senate campaign trip in Davenport .