'Holy cow!' Boebert scrambles to reassure Christians rattled by 'Beetlejuice' blunder
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is reportedly showing unusual humility to her constituents after she got booted out of a performance of the "Beetlejuice" musical and was then shown on security camera footage vaping during the show and publicly groping her date.
The Associated Press reports that these actions have damaged her efforts to cultivate an image of herself as an upstanding Christian woman, and she's delivering public apologies to constituents when meeting with them during campaign stops.
"“Most of us were like ‘holy cow,’” Boebert supporter Beverly Cuyler tells the Associated Press of seeing video of the congresswoman's behavior at the musical. “And one of the big reasons for that is a gap between how she presented herself as a Christian and what ended up happening.”
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Boebert has implicitly acknowledged the damage that the scandal has done, and the AP reports that she acknowledged recently that "Democrats certainly smell blood in the water" about her congressional seat, which she won last year in an unexpectedly close election by under 600 votes.
Republican Dusty Mars, 44, for one, tells the AP that he's unsure about supporting Boebert again in the Republican primary and he's frustrated by the fact that it's seemingly so hard to hold onto what should be a safe seat for the GOP.
"It should be a lot easier to get a Republican candidate into the district. We shouldn’t be pulling teeth to get votes," he explained.