Republican hardliner Lauren Boebert (R-CO) has been causing controversy since her first confronted Beto O’Rourke in Aurora, where he told him in no uncertain terms that he would not take away anyone’s guns. Some of her appearances since have done the same; in fact, her infamous appearance in Denver performing “Beetlejuice” raised eyebrows. But her political career, while shaky at times, has survived so far. Now she has abandoned her previous District 3 for the more conservative District 4, and despite the Democrats’ pearl-clutching in Colorado, the signs are good for her before the primaries on Tuesday.
Representative Lauren Boebertto Colorado republicanis doing well in a recent poll compared to her Republican rivals, but many Coloradans are still undecided ahead of Tuesday’s primary election.
Bobert currently represents Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District, but has campaigned for the takeover the vacant seat of the now retired MP Ken Buck in Colorado’s 4th District. The congresswoman had previously stated that she was changing districts for personal reasons, but the move came after she narrowly won the 3rd District in the 2022 midterm elections, even though it is generally considered Republican-leaning.
A May 31 Kaplan Strategies poll found that 40 percent of registered voters plan to vote for Boebert, while 40 percent are undecided. Boebert’s challengers received a diminutive percentage of support: Peter Yu received 5 percent, Jerry Sonnenberg 4 percent, Deborah Flora 4 percent, Richard Holtorf 4 percent and Mike Lynch 3 percent. The poll surveyed 343 registered likely voters in Colorado’s 4th District and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.3 percent.
Boebert’s poll numbers in behind schedule May were an improvement over a February 24 poll by Kaplan Strategies.
Should she win the nomination, probably looksThat would be an electoral victory for her in this deep red district (assuming there are no more Beetlejuice-style mishaps in the future).
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Boebert takes first place in the Republican primary in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District
Colorado District 4, which includes Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Las Animas, Lincoln, Logan, Morgan, Otero, Phillips, Prowers, Sedgwick, Washington and Yuma counties, as well as parts of Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Douglas and Weld counties, is a solid Republican stronghold in otherwise blue-purple Colorado. In 2020, President Trump won the district against Joe Biden with almost a two-to-one ratioalthough Trump lost the state as a whole. In the 2022 congressional elections, incumbent Congressman Ken Buck (R-CO) defeated his Democratic challenger Ike McCorkle, with a similar distance(Buck has since announced his resignation and left the seat vacant.)
Mrs. Boebert has a well-known name, she has a good reputation – boy, is she notorious! She is a member in good standing of the House Freedom Caucuswhich may have hurt her in purple District 3, but could well benefit her in District 4.
While Lauren Boebert can be undisciplined, prone to temper tantrums, and can be very outspoken, sometimes when it’s not appropriate, she will likely have a seat in Congress that Republicans need if they want any chance of implementing an agenda after this 2024 election cycle.
We need every seat. First, as the saying goes, we have to win.
