A man who has made a maximum $2,700 contribution to Lincoln Chafee’s presidential campaign is backing the former senator and governor of Rhode Island because in his view Chafee, unlike Hillary Clinton, is an honest person, NPR reports.
"I don’t think Chafee can be bought," said Ronald Lee Fleming, an urban planner in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "I think Hillary Clinton has already been purchased by special interests."
Fleming also called Chafee "a man of good values and integrity" with "experience at the different layers of government."
Chafee is currently polling around 1 percent in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, and Fleming said he was realistic about his candidate’s chances, adding that he hoped Hillary Clinton would fail to secure the nomination no matter what.
"If Linc doesn't make it—and I don't sense that he has a very good chance—I would hope that there would be some major blowup that would sink the Clinton campaign," Fleming said.