Scott Tipton becomes fourth House incumbent to be felled in primary

Republican Colorado Rep. Scott Tipton has been unseated by a QAnon conspiracy believer and restaurant owner who proudly violated the state’s COVID-19 guidelines.

Tipton’s surprising loss to Lauren Boebert on Colorado’s reliably conservative Western Slope after first being elected to Congress in 2010 makes him the fourth incumbent House lawmaker to be vanquished in a primary challenge this cycle. He’ll be the fifth if New York Democrat Eliot Engel loses his contest against public middle school teacher Jamaal Bowman.