It hasn’t been the easiest couple of years for Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert.
Her image as an attention-seeking conspiracy theorist nearly cost Boebert her congressional seat in the 2022 midterms. She won reelection in a Republican district that year by a mere 546 votes. To avoid a rematch and spare her career, she relocated to a new, even redder district on the other side of the Continental Divide for 2024. In her personal life, she got divorced, a process that wasn’t pretty, and her eldest son was arrested not long after making Boebert a grandmother. Boebert’s postdivorce dating life made its own set of headlines after a particularly handsy outing to the Beetlejuice musical.
But Boebert may just get away with it all. If the polling is anywhere near correct, she’s set to cruise to a primary win on Tuesday night on her new turf.
How did we get here?
Boebert’s days were numbered in her old district. After coming out of nowhere to nearly defeat her in 2022, Democrat Adam Frisch had announced that he would challenge her again in Colorado’s 3rd District, covering the state’s Western Slope and extending east along its southern border. Frisch would not suffer from a lack of funds as he tried once again to take out an MSNBC archvillain. He has raised more than $13 million this cycle, an unfathomable amount for a former Aspen City Council member in an R 7 district. Boebert, with her own national profile, was raising a fair share in her own right, but Frisch was blowing her numbers out of the water quarter after quarter in 2023.
AdvertisementFacing this tidal wave of cash, Boebert announced late last year that she would swap mountains for plains and run in Colorado’s 4th District, on the other side of the state, in an open seat vacated by retiring Rep. Ken Buck. She described this act of moving to a safer Republican district as a matter of self-sacrifice.
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