Boebert rolls the dice: Controversial congresswoman SWITCHES election run from Colorado’s 3rd District to the Republican stronghold 4th – amid fierce fight with her Democratic rival
- Firebrand Republican Lauren Boebert narrowly won re-election in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District in 2022, winning by just 546 votes
- On Wednesday, Boebert announced she was switching to a more heavily Republican district: “the best way I can continue to fight for Colorado.”
- The move would ensure she wins re-election despite a slew of scandals, including being caught groping her date at a Beetlejuice show in Denver.
Conservative firebrand Lauren Boebert announced Wednesday that she would switch congressional districts for the 2024 elections after cruising to reelection in 2022 with just 546 votes.
Boebert, a 37-year-old grandmother and mother of four sons, said she made the decision to continue her fight against “the socialists and communists who are taking over our country.”
She said “dark money” was directed at her personally “to steal this seat.”
And she said it was a fresh start after her divorce and “personal mistakes.”
Boebert made headlines last summer after she was caught on camera groping a date, vaping and taking selfies during a performance of the musical Beetlejuice in Denver, then giving the ushers the finger when she was asked to leave, stating, ” Do you know who I am?' She also sparked controversy by heckling Joe Biden in his 2022 State of the Union address, and sparked anger by making an Islamophobic joke about Minnesota's Ilhan Omar.
Announcing her district change in a Facebook video published Wednesday, Boebert said, “I did not come to this decision easily.
Lauren Boebert announced Wednesday that she would not run for Colorado's 3rd Congressional District — which she narrowly won in 2022. Instead, she will switch to Colorado's 4th Congressional District.
Boebert is pictured with Donald Trump in February 2022. She remains a staunch supporter of the former president
“A lot of prayer, a lot of difficult conversations, and a lot of perspective have convinced me that this is the best way I can continue to fight for Colorado, for the conservative movement, and for my children's future.”
She said the Hollywood elites, Aspen moneymen and George Soros who tried to stop her could “start pounding sand.”
The decision significantly increases her re-election chances.
The 3rd District leans 9 percentage points in favor of Republicans, The Colorado sun reported — while the 4th District leans 27 points toward the Republican Party, according to a nonpartisan analysis of election results from 2016 to 2020 by Colorado Legislature staffers.
She is struggling to raise funds for her re-election bid for the Third District, the newspaper reported, and Republican donors in western Colorado have lost enthusiasm for her fervent pro-Trump politics.
Boebert said Wednesday she would move to the 4th District — even though she doesn't have to do so to qualify.
She currently lives in Garfield County, near the town of Silt – hundreds of miles from the borders of the 4th District.
The 4th District covers the entire eastern border of Colorado and all of the country east of Denver, from Oklahoma in the south to Nebraska in the north, and east to Kansas.
The 3rd District, on the other hand, stretched across the state's western border and included the wealthy mountain towns of Aspen and Telluride.