President Obama may have to eat some humble pie and do some fence-mending Monday with the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Rhode Island he previously shunned.
Obama refused to endorse the Dem as a favor to the independent candidate in the race. The Democrat, Frank Caprio, says Obama can “shove it.” Obama stiffed his party’s nominee as payback to independent candidate Lincoln Chafee, a former GOP senator who endorsed Obama over Hillary Clinton and John McCain in 2008. That doesn’t mean much to Caprio, who went off on the President Monday morning on a Providence radio station. Obama will tour a factory in Woonsocket Monday and is the headliner later at two Providence fund-raisers for congressional candidates. Caprio indicated he may skip the events. Caprio told WPRO Obama can “take his endorsement and shove it,” calling the decision not to endorse a Democrat “Washington insider politics at its worst.”The White House has yet to comment on the latest sign that Obama is the leader of a deeply-divided party.