Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert has lost her race in Colorado’s reddest district.
The Associated Press confirmed her loss on Friday, leaving Rep. Jeff Hurd as the state’s sole surviving Republican member. Democrat Eileen Laubacher, formerly a member of the National Security Council under President Joe Biden, will fill her seat.
“Public service was never meant to be a lifetime career, nor did I ever intend it to be for myself,” Ms. Boebert said in her concession video posted Friday. “I’m home, I’m happy, I have peace, and this is not the last you’ll be hearing from me. So stay tuned and stay blessed.”
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The Associated Press held off on calling the race for several days, and Ms. Boebert held off on a concession.
President Trump attempted to help the MAGA firebrand in the closing days of her campaign by holding a tele-rally with her.
Ms. Laubacher said in a statement on Nov. 9 that she will “work with anyone and everyone, including President Trump, Republicans, and Democrats to get things done for Colorado.”
A gun rights activist, Ms. Boebert was first elected in 2020 after defeating Republican Rep. Scott Tipton in a primary upset.
She won by just a few hundred votes in 2022 and ran in a more conservative district in 2024, where she won by ten points.
While in Congress, she introduced legislation to make the AR-15 “the National Gun of the United States,” heckled President Biden during his State of the Union, and maintained a solidly conservative voting record.
Although generally a pro-Trump Republican, she split with him on some issues during the 119th Congress.
She was one of a handful of House Republicans who initially backed a bill introduced by Rep. Thomas Massie, Kentucky Republican, to compel the release of files on the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
This put her at odds with Mr. Trump, who at first opposed the bill, but ultimately signed it into law.
When she campaigned on Mr. Massie’s behalf against a Trump-backed challenger in May, the president called her “Weak Minded” and “dumb” in a blistering social media post.
He said he would withdraw his endorsement if the “right person” challenged her in her primary.
However, she had already won her primary, and the two moved past the public spat.
Ms. Boebert received wide publicity in 2023, when she was escorted out of a Denver, Colorado showing of “Beetlejuice” alongside her male companion for vaping and other disruptive behavior during the play.
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