Running Scared, Lauren Boebert Switches Congressional Districts
Well, this is interesting. After Boebert's recent antics, she's had a hard time raising cash and was looking at Democrat Adam Frisch outraising her at least 5-1. She won in CO-03 last time against Frisch by only 543 votes. Coupled with a strong primary challenge from Republican Jeff Hurd and the end of her congressional career was probably already written on the wall. What's that saying? When the going gets tough, the tough get going - to another congressional district.
Source: Colorado Sun
U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert announced Wednesday night that she is ditching her reelection bid next year in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District to run instead in the state’s 4th Congressional District, which is on the other side of the state and is far more favorable to Republicans.
Boebert won by just 546 votes last year in the 3rd District, which spans Colorado’s Western Slope into Pueblo and southeastern Colorado. The 4th District is anchored in Douglas County and includes Loveland and the state’s rural Eastern Plains.
The 3rd District leans 9 percentage points in Republicans’ favor while the 4th District leans 27 points toward the GOP, according to a nonpartisan analysis of election results from 2016 to 2020 by staffers for the Colorado legislature. Boebert doesn’t have to live in the 4th District to represent it.