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Hard-line conservative Rep. Lauren Boebert is facing a tougher-than-expected midterm election race against Democratic opponent Adam Frisch, a former Aspen city councilman.
The race was too early to call Wednesday morning, but the 35-year-old Republican appears to be in danger of losing her seat in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District. Frisch was leading by less than 3,500 votes with 90% of the results in on Wednesday morning, according to the Associated Press. Boebert entered the race in a strong position after redistricting solidified the district, which encompasses the western slope, the southwest corner of the state, and the eastern Pueblo, Otero, and Las Animas counties, a region that favors the GOP by a 9-point advantage.
Speaking to supporters on Tuesday night in a restaurant-bar in Grand Junction, Boebert said she was still waiting on “same-day voting ballots” to be counted, which tend to skew Republican, and offered a prayer to her supporters, according to CPR News.
As the results came in Tuesday night, some on social media began to mock Boebert, circulating two side-by-side photos from her election night party. One, from earlier in the night showed Boebert and her husband smiling and raising their hats. The second showed Boebert and her supporters lowering their heads, appearing to look disappointed.
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The ardent Trump loyalist has emerged as one of the most high-profile Republican newcomers in Congress and is known for her incendiary right-wing rhetoric. A regular on conservative cable news shows and podcasts, Boebert is among one of the most vocal members of the House Freedom Caucus, where she serves as communications chairwoman. She routinely picks fights with Democrats, labeling one group as the “Jihad Squad,” and is one of 147 Republican members of Congress who objected to certifying the results of the 2020 election. She also notably interrupted President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address earlier this year when he was speaking about veterans and his oldest son, Beau, a former National Guardsmen who died of brain cancer in 2015. Boebert was heard yelling “13 of them,” a reference to the service members killed in the final days of the U.S. exit from Afghanistan.
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As results are still trickling in, several Republican strategists said they were surprised to see how competitive the race between Boebert and Frisch has become, especially considering this seat was supposed to be safe for Republicans.
“The Freedom Caucus is now going to have to analyze their role and understand what happened with Boebert in Colorado. Obviously, voters didn’t want that kind of activity, necessarily across the board,” said Saul Anuzis, a Republican strategist and the former Michigan GOP chairman.
“Maybe we need to be a little more conscious of the fact that in some cases, you need moderates running and in other cases you need conservatives running, and we need to understand the makeup of it,” he said.
