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IOWA CITY — The Ben and Jerry’s was nearly gone before Bernie Sanders arrived for his own ice cream social, but no one wanting for change went away hungry.

The Vermont senator was about an hour late for his Iowa City rally because of a flight delay that forced him to drive from Chicago, but the delay didn’t seem to dampen his call for change or the enthusiasm of the crowd the campaign estimated at more than 800 people who greeted him with a chant of “Bernie, Bernie, Bernie.”

“The working class of this country is saying from coast to coast they are sick and tired of an economy that works for the 1 percent, and they are demanding an economy that works for all of us,” he said at the Robert A. Lee Recreation Center in Iowa City.

Sanders then launched into his stump speech excoriating big banks, big oil, big pharma and big health care for their profits while millions are homeless, without health care and living paycheck to paycheck.

“Maybe, just maybe we should have an economy and a government that works for all of us, not just the 1 percent,” he said.

The ice cream social came as Sanders’ poll numbers have been sliding.