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Laubacher Defeats Boebert in Colorado's 4th District Race
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In Short: Democrat Eileen Laubacher has defeated Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert in Colorado's 4th Congressional District race.
Democrat Eileen Laubacher defeats incumbent Lauren Boebert in Colorado's 4th Congressional District. CBS Colorado
Democrat Eileen Laubacher has defeated Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert in Colorado's 4th Congressional District race, with Laubacher securing 48.8% of the vote to Boebert's 47.9%.
The Associated Press called the race for Laubacher on Friday, 10 days after the election, when the final tally showed her with a slim 1% lead.
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, known for her vocal support of former President Donald Trump and her controversial stances, was one of the most vocal conservatives in the House.
Boebert initially gained national attention in 2020 when she unseated a five-term Republican incumbent in the primary.
Boebert conceded the race, calling Laubacher to congratulate her on her victory and thanking the district’s residents.
Laubacher said, “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.”
Boebert's loss is part of a broader trend of Republican setbacks in the midterms, with several races remaining uncalled nearly two weeks after Election Day.
What this adds
The race was very close, with just 1% of the vote separating the two candidates by the time the race was projected.
Laubacher put 40,000 miles on her campaign car visiting ranching towns and rural hospitals across eastern Colorado to persuade Republican voters to support her.
Boebert's loss marks the end of a tumultuous three terms for the congresswoman, who was known for her controversial stances and clashes with fellow lawmakers.
Background
In a close race, Colorado's Republican Representative Lauren Boebert lost her seat to Democratic challenger Eileen Laubacher.
Democrat Eileen Laubacher narrowly defeated Republican incumbent Lauren Boebert in Colorado's 4th Congressional District race, flipping the seat for Democrats.
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.
What's still developing
- Those same voters embraced Boebert in the lead-up to the 2020 election, helping her unseat the five-term Republican incumbent in the party's primary.
- Colorado voters had initially liked Boebert's "straight talk and her direct, down-the-barrel approach" as well as her conservative Christian views, said Rich Wyatt, a county Republican chairman in Colorado and former reality star who served time in prison for tax fraud.
- Lauren Boebert, the Republican representative from Colorado who rose to national fame as one of Donald Trump's biggest cheerleaders, has lost her seat in Congress.
- 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.
- 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.
- “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.
- The race was very close, with just 1% of the vote separating the two candidates by the time the race was projected, 10 days after Election Day.
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