Chafee's unanticipated interest in running for his old Senate seat began with an email

[Gothmog]

It seems that some Sanders supporters are the ones who convinced Chafee to challenge a sitting Democratic senator

Link to tweet

[Docreed2003]

1. As a former resident of RI...hard pass

Both the current Senators are amazing representatives of the state.

[Kahuna7]

3. Yep!

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Oh for FUCK sake

Every god damn day I want to be proven wrong, you are NOT helping, this proves I am RIGHT


I am doing sarcasm as in you are not helping, a joke

if your goal is to KEEP the gop in power but you suspect a blue wave is coming, what do you do? yep

[Cha]

5. i know it's weird.. what's their agenda?

I like your new sig line, Eliot.

[lapucelle]

4. Isn't Chafee a Republican turned independent

who ran as a Democrat for the first time in the presidential primaries in 2016?

The 2016 presidential campaign of Lincoln Chafee, the 74th Governor of Rhode Island, and former United States Senator from Rhode Island, was formally launched on June 3, 2015.

His campaign for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2016 election was his first campaign as a Democrat, after having previously been elected senator as a Republican, and governor as an independent.

He received zero votes either formally or by write-in, meaning he got the fewest votes of any major party candidate in the Democratic or Republican Primaries 2016.

How does anyone manage to get 0 votes?

[Cha]

6. Yeah, he's had quite a history. Mahalo for that, lapucelle.

Wonder why the BS supporters wanted him to run?