Minutes before Lauren Boebert took the stage Tuesday night at her election watch party in her new residence of Windsor, Colorado to celebrate her equally new-to-her Colorado congressional seat , a blond child in a “God, guns and Trump” t-shirt removed his red Make America Great Again hat and asked those assembled to do the same as he led the crowd in the Pledge of Allegiance. Boebert, 37, then addressed the sea of MAGA cap and cowboy hat-clad supporters in the same grain-bin themed venue on old Colorado farmland where she celebrated her June win over fellow Republicans in the CD4 primary . The sitting CD3 Congresswoman had announced plans late last year to abandon her re-election in that district – where she’d lived since a teenager, married and raised her four boys – and move across the state to the more heavily-red CD4.
The decision followed her near loss two years earlier in CD3 to Democrat Adam Frisch, an Aspen businessman and former Independent who seemed primed to give her a run for her money again – literally – as his fundraising and campaigning continued barreling forward robustly for a 2024 rematch. Despite facing local competitors who gleefully pointed to her carpetbagging, along with a growing list of personal dramas and unfavorable headlines, Boebert won the Republican nomination in June. She’d been the easy favorite in the heavily agricultural and conservative eastern Colorado district – which hasn’t elected a Democrat since 2008.
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