Lauren Boebert: Is the Republican in trouble in Colorado in 2024?

GOP Representative Lauren Boebert could be squeezed out of Congress next term by a Democrat who has significantly outnumbered her or a Republican who says her Colorado voters are “done” with her “immature” antics.

Boebert, who represents Colorado’s 3rd congressional district, was already forced into a rematch in 2022 with Democrat Adam Frisch, losing to her by just 546 votes.

The latest fundraising numbers show Frisch raised $1.7 million in the first quarter of the year for Boebert’s nearly $764,000, with Democrats across the country salivating at the idea of ​​nominating one of the most prominent members of the Republican House. fire.

Last week, the 36-year-old grandmother-to-be also attracted a Republican primary opponent: 65-year-old conservative radio personality Russ Andrews.

“I’m tired of Lauren Boebert,” Andrews said in an interview with the Craig Press. “I didn’t realize how young she is, but she’s immature, she’s brash, she’s loud, she’s emotional, she’s divisive, and everyone I talk to here in the Roaring Fork Valley is tired of her in a Donald Trump . way.’

Democrat Adam Frisch, who lost to Boebert by just 546 votes in 2022, surpassed her by about $1 million in the first fundraising quarter of 2023

First elected in 2020, Boebert, along with Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, first made headlines for promoting the QAnon conspiracy theory in online posts.

Both lawmakers have since backed down.

She also drew attention for her open love of guns — she even brandished a gun at a congressional hearing.

Frisch, a wealthy entrepreneur and former member of the Aspen City Council, nearly singled her out in November by highlighting how Boebert’s national profile kept her from engaging in local issues.

In an interview in August he said he had heard from district voters “that they are ready to stop Boebert’s circus.”

That carnival continued as Boebert was part of the group of “Never Kevin” conservatives who forced the speaker’s race to take place over a series of days because they opposed promoting House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

Now Andrews hopes to capitalize on Republican voters who want a conservative but no clown show.

“Why do I think I can?” he mused. “Everyone I’ve talked to about it — not everyone, but I’d say over 95 percent of people — is just tired of it. They’re done with Lauren Boebert like they’re done with winter. I just think there’s a possibility.’

Conservative radio personality Russ Andrews, 65, announced he would run against Boebert in the Republican primary, telling a Colorado publication that voters tell him they are “done” with her “immature” antics

Andrews, who has never held public office before, said he believed abortion was holding his party back, telling the Craig Press that the country is “driving pretty far to the left.”

Since Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court last summer, Democrats have won a string of electoral victories — including retaining control of the U.S. Senate and narrowly losing the House of Representatives, in a year expected to be a “red wave’ would bring.

Boebert’s near loss to Frisch was partly explained by the Democrats’ post-Roe success story.

“As a congressman — this would be my biggest thing I’d like to do — I’d introduce legislation and try to get co-sponsors on both sides of the aisle that we fall somewhere between 12 and 22 weeks into what I call,” the “A woman’s right to choose,” he said. “I just want to codify a woman’s right to choose and get this issue behind us on the national scene.”

Boebert was a teen mom and announced in March that her 17-year-old son will make her a grandmother at 36.

Boebert announced she would soon be a grandmother at a Moms for America event, saying there’s “something special about conservative rural communities” — because fewer pregnant teens are aborting their fetuses compared to those who live in cities, studies show.

“The percentage of teen mothers is higher in conservative rural areas because they understand the preciousness of a life about to be born,” said Boebert, who opposes abortion.