Chafee will 'very likely' challenge Whitehouse for US Senate
Source: WPRI
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) - Former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee says he is "very likely" to enter the Democratic primary against the man who defeated him for the same seat 12 years ago, Sheldon Whitehouse, Eyewitness News has confirmed.
Chafee, 65, said Whitehouse's lukewarm job approval rating in last month's WPRI 12/Roger Williams University poll has influenced him, along with the urging of some Bernie Sanders supporters, who he said first approached him a few months ago.
"Their motivation was that Sheldon Whitehouse had voted for Hillary Clinton at the Democratic convention even though almost every city and town in Rhode Island had supported Senator Sanders in our Democratic primary for president," Chafee told Eyewitness News. He also cited Whitehouse's recent vote against a Sanders-sponsored resolution to pull U.S. troops out of Yemen.
As for the WPRI 12/RWU poll, Chafee said the survey results "jumped off the page, and Senator Whitehouse just doesn’t have solid support according to that poll here in Rhode Island." The survey showed 46% of voters say Whitehouse is doing an excellent or good job, 22% say he is doing a fair job and 27% say he is doing a poor job.
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After his stunning success in the Presidential field, I won't be losing sleep.
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