It appears Colorado has voted Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (R) out of office. You’re welcome, America.
CNN projects Eileen Laubacher (D), a retired Navy admiral, as the winner of the Colorado District #4 race. She’s been ahead since Election Day, and while the counting continues, her lead of roughly 3,000 votes has changed very little.
Ironically, in the last election, Boebert barely won (by just a few hundred votes, as I recall) so she picked up and moved across the state to District #4, supposedly a “safe” Republican district.
Laubacher ran a dignified, positive campaign focusing on what she hoped to do, rather than attacking Boebert. And though I’d not heard of her before the campaign started, I quickly came to respect her approach.
Boebert, you may remember, arrived in Washington in 2020 in spike heels and skin-tight jeans, proudly packing a Glock on her hip. The Glock quickly disappeared, per local law, but the overall image remained unchanged.
The vote differential will not be small enough to trigger an automatic recount, and it remains to be seen if Boebert will ask for (and pay for) one, as is her right. Colorado counties have until November 25 to complete their formal ballot tallies, and candidates have until then to request self-funded recounts. Candidate-requested recounts must be completed by Dec. 8.
In her conservative district, why would anyone vote for her?