Adam Frisch, the Democrat who lost to Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) by just 546 votes in 2022, is launching another bid for her Colorado House seat.
The race for Colorado’s 3rd District was one of the most competitive in the country and remained too close to call more than a week after the midterm election. Frisch conceded the race to the conservative firebrand as it headed for a recount.
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I. AM. RUNNING.
You heard it here first! I am officially launching my campaign to unseat Lauren Boebert and restore dignity to #CO03 representation.
We lost by a mere 546 votes in ’22 — the closest race in the country — and know we can make that up in ’24. pic.twitter.com/LqxO43l9f8
— Adam Frisch for CD-3 (@AdamForColorado) February 14, 2023
Boebert had been heavily favored to win reelection heading into the race. Frisch got no financial help from national Democrats and paid for much of his campaign himself, and Boebert spent nearly $43 per vote in her reelection bid to Frisch’s $32 per vote, according to the Colorado Sun.
Following his loss, Frisch chided Democratic-aligned groups.
“It’s never fun to have phone calls returned nine months later,” he said. “The amount of phone calls that came in on [the day after the election] … people in D.C. are very, very aware of how they did not do anything for us. If we were to run again, I’m pretty darn certain and pretty darn confident that would change dramatically.”
Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District covers a wide swath of the western part of the state.
Frisch, a conservative Democrat from the ritzy city of Aspen, has been called out by some who say he’s out of touch with his largely rural district.
Despite living in one of the wealthiest areas in the country, Frisch campaigned on his rural roots. He grew up on a Native American reservation in Montana, where his father was a healthcare provider. He has taken Boebert to task for being “an anti-American, anti-Colorado show pony who can’t tell right from wrong.”
Frisch has told news outlets he is not a “traditional Democrat” and described himself as a “pro-business, pro-energy, moderate, pragmatic Democrat.” He was on the Aspen City Council for eight years and pushed for affordable housing projects. He lost his bid for mayor in 2019.
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Boebert is a gun-toting MAGA loyalist with a penchant for making incendiary statements that keep her in the national spotlight. Since her election in 2020, she has made eyebrow-raising comments on the pandemic and her Democratic colleagues and has drawn the ire of centrist Republicans such as Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC).
She was one of the GOP holdouts against House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) in his weeklong fight for the top House post. Since then, she has been appointed to the influential House Oversight and Reform Committee.
