"He doesn't have time to meet with a bunch of women who have been sexually assaulted, but he's out in front of everyone selling Runzas," King said. "This is really, truly offensive."

When King, 67, confronted Sasse at the game, the senator told her: "We're not going to do that here," she said. King was later escorted from the stadium by police.

In his email, Wegmann said "no Husker fans come to games to hear that garbage, so — in consultation with Runza — Ben's family decided they'll cheer but not vend at the games during seasons when he's an active candidate."

Another woman at the game, 29-year-old Elena Salisbury of Omaha, said she also approached Sasse in West Stadium to talk about politics, but was rebuffed.

Salisbury, who was among the women who traveled from Nebraska to Washington for the Kavanaugh hearings last fall, said she asked Sasse about his pro-life stance and whether or not that applied to the migrant children separated from their families at the southern border.

"He said it was a complicated issue and (he) didn't have time to get into a complex policy discussion," Salisbury said.