- Rebel Republican Lauren Boebert narrowly won re-election in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District in 2022 with just 546 votes
- On Wednesday, Boebert announced she was switching to contest a more Republican district: “The best way to continue fighting for Colorado.”
- The move is intended to ensure she is re-elected despite a series of scandals, including being caught groping her date at a Beetlejuice show in Denver
Conservative firebrand Lauren Boebert announced Wednesday that she will switch congressional districts for the 2024 election after failing to win re-election in 2022 by 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 takeover of our country by socialists and communists.”
She said that “dark money” was being targeted at her personally “to steal this seat.”
And she said it was a fresh start after her divorce and “personal mistakes”.
Boebert made headlines over the summer when she was caught on camera groping, vaping and taking selfies with a date at a performance of the musical “Beetlejuice” in Denver, then giving the finger to ushers when she was asked to leave , and explained, 'Do you know who I am?' She also sparked controversy by heckling Joe Biden during his 2022 State of the Union address and caused anger by making an Islamophobic joke about Minnesota's Ilhan Omar.
Boebert announced her district change in a Facebook video posted Wednesday, saying, “This decision was not easy for me.”
Lauren Boebert announced Wednesday that she will not run for Colorado's 3rd Congressional District – which she narrowly won in 2022. Instead, she will move to Colorado's 4th electoral district
Boebert is pictured with Donald Trump in February 2022. She remains a staunch supporter of the former president
“A lot of prayers, a lot of difficult conversations and a lot of perspective have convinced me that this is the best way to continue fighting for Colorado, for the conservative movement and for the future of my children.”
She said the Hollywood elite, the money men from Aspen and George Soros who tried to stop her could “go and grind sand.”
The decision significantly increases her chances of being re-elected.
According to a nonpartisan analysis of 2016 to 2020 election results by Colorado House staff, the 3rd District leans 9 percentage points in favor of Republicans, The Colorado Sun reported — while the 4th District leans 27 points in favor of Republicans.
The newspaper reported that she has struggled to raise funds for her re-election in the 3rd District, and Republican donors in western Colorado have lost enthusiasm for her fiery pro-Trump politics.
Boebert said Wednesday she will 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 4th District borders.
The 4th District covers the entire eastern border of Colorado and all of the land east of Denver, stretching 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.