Chase Woodruff

@chasewoodruff.bsky.social

Reporter, @coloradonewsline.com

@chasewoodruff.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 7:26 PM

whether or not "only" is the perfect word there, the meaningful part is the second part. Will things change when he's gone? Is Trump a cause or a symptom? Can we go Back to Normal? This debate has divided Dems for a decade, and Hick is very clearly coming down on the same side Biden did in 2020.

@chasewoodruff.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 7:05 PM

huh? it's like what they are saying almost verbatim lol. I don't even understand what you are hearing instead?

@chasewoodruff.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 4:32 PM

And so Hickenlooper and the party establishment, with a regrettable assist from the media, simply did everything they could to avoid debates, sit-down interviews and other public forums in which he might have expressed that belief to voters while running a close Democratic primary this year.

@chasewoodruff.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 4:30 PM

For obvious reasons, this belief, expressed repeatedly by Joe Biden in 2019-20, rings extremely hollow to Democratic voters these days.

@sahilkapur
BIDEN says the fever will break: “The thing that will fundamentally change with Donald Trump out of the White House, not a joke, is you will see an epiphany occur among many of my Republican friends.”
6:30 AM · May 15, 2019

@samstein
Biden at a fundraiser tonight, on his desire to work with the Republican Party post Trump.

“With Trump gone you’re going to begin to see things change. Because these folks know better. They know this isn’t what they’re supposed to be doing."
6:48 PM · Jun 10, 2019

@chasewoodruff.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 4:23 PM

Four months after what was almost certainly the only election for US Senate to matter this year, John Hickenlooper is finally willing to express to the voting public his belief that Trump is the only problem with American politics and the fever will break when he's gone. www.cpr.org/2026/10/12/c...

Don't you think though that this administration doesn't give a flying F about its pace affecting people? Could Democrats borrow a page from that sort of caution to the wind?
Hickenlooper: I think the risk is that you're going to make people bitterly unhappy and frustrated, angry at the world. And again, I think the long-term durable change…

I mean, in a way they already were, you said, angry and frustrated about this system.
Hickenlooper: Before Trump? No, no. Trump has taken their anger and their frustration to a level that I've never seen in my lifetime. I have never, with Republicans or Democrats, I think this is... I mean, he's a populist. He's a totalitarian in many ways. He wants total control of the country into either himself or a very small group of very wealthy people. That's not good.

Is it your hope that there would be more moderate Republicans who push back against Trump elected, or are you counting on moderate Republicans who are already in the Senate and the House? Do they exist?
Hickenlooper: Yes, they do. I mean, they're both.

Let's assume that he's out in 2028. Do you think that the Democratic Party, do you as a candidate have a clear vision for who you are without him?
Hickenlooper: I know who I am without him. I'm someone who can actually look towards building an economy that works for more people. I can support small businesses. I can make sure we have an education system so that 22% of our kids are not left unable to read at the end of third grade. And we've got all these places where we know what the solutions are. I think just as an overall issue, the country has to learn to collaborate again. Trump makes it almost impossible. So this is falling on deaf ears and when people are this angry, it's hard to get them to see this, but we have a serious rivalry with Russia, a real rivalry with China, and we need to be able to collaborate as a country and make decisions and move forward on important projects so that we don't lose those rivalries because our lives could be much harder were China to draw a full house in some of these technology opportunities.

@theophite.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 1:26 AMReposted by @chasewoodruff.bsky.social

this was the conclusion of the Castillan crown while he was literally still fucking alive

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof@evanbernick.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 1:20 AM

what the blue fuck is that second sentence. No remotely honest person would deny that Columbus brought genocide and colonization in his wake.

In more recent decades, the controversy
has been over Columbus himself. Indigenous groups and other activists have rejected the narrative that Christopher Columbus, the Italian navigator, was a great explorer, saying he brought genocide and
colonization in his wake.

@chasewoodruff.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 3:26 PM

Literally, objectively, just making stuff up.

No one will name any names, but it’s not hard to imagine some of this state’s seven Fortune 500 companies leaving Colorado in pursuit of lower taxes: Arrow Electronics, Newmont, EchoStar, DaVita, Ball Corp., VF Corp., and Ovintiv.

@adamserwer.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 2:19 PMReposted by @chasewoodruff.bsky.social

The right wing crash out over asian students celebrating at a UT football game reveals that all along the true goal of reactionary colorblindness was never “meritocracy” but resegregation. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Color-blind meritocracy was, for many years, a successful rhetorical strategy for undermining antidiscrimination law and excluding Black people from selective schools and prominent positions. That’s why so many former segregationists seemed to suddenly embrace the concept in the 1970s. For them, resegregation—not color-blindness—was always the goal. As long as the success of some immigrants could be used to paint Black students as undeserving, color-blind meritocracy was good. But now many on the right see a new problem: too many Asian Americans in elite spaces. Their success, therefore, must be portrayed as a sinister theft of real (white) Americans’ birthright.

The declining “social trust” that the administration warned against is, of course, not the fault of these students. The problem is bigots like Bo French who cannot accept into their community people who do not share their race and religion, and those who monetize or otherwise profit from that bigotry by spreading it through social media. Like the proverbial child who kills their parents and asks for mercy as an orphan, they are responsible for the problem they are decrying.

@jaywillis.net Oct 9, 2026, 12:06 AMReposted by @chasewoodruff.bsky.social

Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq...

Proposal Favor or oppose
Favor Oppose
Enforce strict ethics code for justices 89 10
Limited terms for justices 79 21
Increase number of justices 53 47
Marquette Law School Poll, national survey: Sept. 2-9, 2026

@chasewoodruff.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 10:29 PM

It's obviously true that errors by elections officials increase fuel/fodder for people who are distrustful of elections. But whether they actually increase the number of those people is a separate question, and the answer to that seems a lot less obvious to me?

@coloradonewsline.com Oct 8, 2026, 7:44 PMReposted by @chasewoodruff.bsky.social

Know before you vote.

See what’s on your ballot. Then explore what some of those choices could mean for Colorado.

Build-your-own-ballot: coloradonewsline.com/2026/08/31/s...

Colorado Tradeoffs: coloradonewsline.com/2026/08/30/c...

Voter guide: coloradonewsline.com/voter-guides...

@chasewoodruff.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 7:49 PM

Phil Weiser launched his campaign in January 2025, and his #1 — and I don't think it's that much of a stretch to say *only*? — idea for boosting housing construction is lowering permitting fees. Macroeconomically speaking it's like something from another planet.

All Coloradans deserve a safe, affordable place to call home. Yet too many families are forced to choose between housing and essentials like childcare or healthcare. As governor, I will:

Boost homes Coloradans can afford, increasing attainable owner-occupied homes by 40,000, closing the current gap on the shortfall on such homes by 50%.
Speed up permitting and partner with local governments to lower fees for affordable homes available for sale under $600,000.
Cut red tape to streamline state processes.
Expand down payment assistance to support first-time homebuyers—especially essential workers like teachers, nurses, and first responders.
Protect renters from unfair practices and keep affordable units available.
Ensure that out-of-state corporate investors don’t mistreat Colorado families.
Ban algorithmic price collusion by corporate landlords.

@chasewoodruff.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 9:22 PM

They had very good polling on a potential 2024 ballot measure but didn't pull the trigger, out of extreme caution. Finalized the joint service plan and then shrank the district, out of even more extreme caution. And at the 1-yard line this happens. Extremely funny, sorry!

@chasewoodruff.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 9:19 PM

Gov. Polis and the advisors he put in charge of FRPR have for years been *extremely* sensitive to the voting public's FasTracks PTSD. Not an exaggeration that basically every major decision the district has made since its inception was designed to address those concerns.

@chasewoodruff.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 9:14 PM

When this broke yesterday I just assumed the explanation couldn't possibly be as simple and stupid as the district forgetting to update *its own boundaries* that were changed by the Legislature *at its request* four months ago. Welp!

@chasewoodruff.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 2:49 PM

About once a month or so I think about Mike Johnston vowing right after the 2024 election that there would be a "Tiananmen Square moment" with "DPD stationed at the county line to keep (ICE) out" denverite.com/2024/11/20/d...

@ddayen.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 6:58 PMReposted by @chasewoodruff.bsky.social

Democrats working hard on precisely how much they should pull their punches against the corporate oligarchy after the election.
www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

@jamellebouie.net Oct 6, 2026, 9:49 PMReposted by @chasewoodruff.bsky.social

interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”

@chasewoodruff.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 8:26 PM

CO-4 (R+9 PVI, 18.3-point Trump '24 margin) is slightly redder than Kansas (R+8 PVI, 16-point Trump '24 margin). But if Boebert has the ~5-point underperformance that she did in both 2022 and 2024, it more than makes up the difference.

@chasewoodruff.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 8:17 PM

There's never been much belief among plugged-in Colorado politicos that Eileen Laubacher can actually pull it off in CD4. But I don't think you can believe that Kansas is in play without also now believing in the possibility of an 8-0 Dem sweep.

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