Bob Chew: Colorado’s Independent Navy Vet taking on Hickenlooper — and the Republicans and Democrats. 52% reject the duopoly. $8T in debt and counting.
Colorado is 25% Democrat, 23% Republican, and 52% none of the above. Navy veteran, engineer, and first-time candidate Bob Chew is running as an independent for U.S. Senate against John Hickenlooper — and he’s not asking permission from either party to do it. In this Meet the Independent Candidate conversation, Chew lays out the $8 trillion debt bomb, why he left the Republican Party a year ago, and how the independent veteran movement is quietly breaking out in 2026.
Colorado has become one of the clearest case studies in America of what happens when voters lose faith in the rigged two-party system. A…
The Brief
→ Four things from today’s episodeWhy 52% of Colorado voters now reject both major parties. and what that opens up
Bob Chew’s path from Cleveland kid to Navy nuclear sub offic. Bob Chew’s path from Cleveland kid to Navy nuclear sub officer to global CEO to first-time candidate
The $8 trillion debt bomb. Biden’s four years, Trump’s two, and a former Comptroller of the Currency warning it could blow up when rates spike
Why Chew left the Republican Party a year ago. and how he defines independent
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