GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert wins election to US House in Colorados 4th Congressional District
WINDSOR, Colo.— Republican U.S.
Rep.Lauren Boebert won a House seat Tuesday in a Colorado district where she moved midway through her term to avoid what would have been a tough reelection bid in her old district.Boebert, a rabble-rouser who’s helped define an ultra-conservative flank of the U.S.
House, took a gamble in moving races, and it paid off.Boebert beat Trisha Calvarese, the former director of speech writing and publications at the AFL-CIO, a federation of labor unions, who called herself an “old-school labor Democrat.”Boebert had held the 3rd Congressional District seat in the Rocky Mountains since 2020.
She left for the more conservative 4th Congressional District on the Great Plains after surveillance video emerged of her vaping and groping a date at a Denver theater.She initially explained her move by saying, “There is a need for my voice in Congress,” and later said she needed a fresh start for her family after after a messy divorce.Follow The Post’s live updates on Election Night for the latest results, news and moreIn doing so, she escaped what would have been a tough rematch against a Democrat who nearly unseated her in 2022.
Adam Frisch lost that election to Boebert by just 546 votes, campaigning against what he dubbed her “angertainment.”During the Republican primary in the 4th District, Boebert avoided a surprise political threat with some behind-the-scenes jostling and fended off accusations of carpetbagging from her opponent and glancing references to her embarrassing moment at the Denver theater.Eventually with six candidates left, Boebert’s well-known political brand and endorsement from presidential candidate Donald Trump helped pull her to victory in the primary, and now the general election.Boebert will be filling Republican Rep.Ken Buck’s old seat.
When Buck resigned, the conservative cited a flank of the Republican Party’s hardheaded politics and unwavering devotion to Trump — traits that made Boebe...