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Boebert Loses Colorado House Seat to Laubacher

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In Short: Democrat Eileen Laubacher defeated Republican incumbent Lauren Boebert in Colorado's 4th Congressional District race.

Lauren Boebert, official portrait, 117th Congress (cropped).

Eileen Laubacher wins Rep. Lauren Boebert's seat: Colorado U.S. House District 4 election results 20. FOX31 Denver

Democrat Eileen Laubacher defeated Republican incumbent Lauren Boebert in Colorado's 4th Congressional District race, flipping the seat for Democrats.

Boebert, known for her vocal support of former President Donald Trump, lost her bid for re-election by a narrow margin of 48.8% to 47.9%, according to the Associated Press.

Laubacher, a retired Navy rear admiral and Afghanistan war veteran, campaigned on cutting costs, ending President Trump’s tariffs, and reducing taxes on the middle class.

Boebert had initially gained popularity in the lead-up to the 2020 election, unseating a five-term Republican incumbent in the party's primary.

Rich Wyatt, a county Republican chairman in Colorado and former reality star who served time in prison for tax fraud, said Colorado voters had initially liked Boebert's 'straight talk and her direct, down-the-barrel approach' as well as her conservative Christian views.

Boebert was known on Capitol Hill more for her controversies and clashes with fellow lawmakers than for legislative savvy.

Boebert had won re-election in Colorado’s 3rd District by just 546 votes in 2022, but shifted to the much redder 4th Congressional District in 2024, where she won more easily.

Boebert said she called Laubacher to congratulate her on her victory and thanked the district’s residents.

Laubacher said, 'This victory is historic,' in a news release.

Boebert's loss is part of several surprising Republican losses in what’s shaping up to be the most lopsided election in half a century.

Boebert was running for her fourth term in the state, but the Associated Press made the call in the razor-thin race Friday afternoon in favor of Laubacher, who maintained her slim 48.7% lead over Boebert’s 47.9% once 99% of the ballots had been counted.

Laubacher was at the U.S. Capitol on Monday in Washington, D.C., along with other newly-elected members of the 120th Congress for the first day of New Member Orientation after Democrats flipped both chambers in the midterm elections.

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Background

What's confirmed

• The race was too close to call on election night last week, but after every vote was counted the Democrat Eileen Laubacher has been declared the winner by the AP news agency.
• Laubacher is projected to win Colorado’s 4th Congressional District, according to the AP.
• The Associated Press called the race for Democratic challenger Eileen Laubacher, who defeated Boebert in a 48.8% to 47.9% split.
• “Integrity matters. Character matters. Truth matters, and public service should always be about what you can do for other people, not what you do for yourself,” Laubacher told supporters on election night, according to The Colorado Sun.
• Boebert's loss in the 4th Congressional District race is just one of several surprising Republican losses in what’s shaping up to be the most lopsided election in half a century.
• In a video posted on her social media account Friday, Boebert said she called Laubacher to congratulate her on her victory and thanked the district’s residents.
• House seat on Friday, ousting a three-term Republican and staple of conservative media.

What's still developing

• Footage released by the theatre showed Boebert, in a gold cocktail dress, arguing with staff before twirling and dancing with her date upon ejection.
• That December - facing another matchup with Adam Frisch, the former Aspen Democratic councilman who nearly unseated her - Boebert announced she would be switching districts altogether.
• He first met Boebert and her then-husband, Jayson, when she was gathering signatures for a state-voting initiative.
• "We've been curing ballots for over a week, and you know we... we need to make sure that every vote counts and every voice is heard. We still have military and overseas ballots that are coming in, and we'll see what that number is," said Boebert.
• Eileen Laubacher put 40,000 miles on her campaign car visiting ranching towns and rural hospitals across eastern Colorado as she tried to persuade Republican voters to dump their congresswoman, the hard-right firebrand Lauren Boebert.
• “I’m honored by the trust the people of Colorado’s 4th District have placed in me,” Laubacher said in a statement.
• The result ends a tumultuous three terms for Boebert, a conspiracy theorist who ran for Congress as the co-owner of a gun-themed bar and grill in the mountain town of Rifle, Colorado, and reveled in the notoriety she found in Washington.
• Earlier this week, Laubacher claimed victory over Boebert, even as thousands of votes separated the two candidates.
• Boebert talked to reporters on the steps of the U.S.
• Several races nationwide remain uncalled nearly two weeks after Election Day.
• Omar said Boebert’s description of the two riding an elevator never happened.
• “There was a lot of money dumped on my head,” Boebert said after the election, while also blaming the Senate for failing to pass many House-approved Republican bills.

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