Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado relocated to a more Republican area after narrowly winning the 2022 election, and won her reelection primary for the House of Representatives on Tuesday night.
Boebert won the six-way Republican primary in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District to replace retiring Republican Rep. Ken Buck..
Boebert, a Colorado Republican, said she switched to Colorado’s 4th District to allow another Republican to win in her old district, a race she was facing defeat in 2022 and blamed outside groups for targeting her. But when she left the district, it had already become a fundraising magnet for a leading Democratic candidate who was raising millions of dollars that could help flip a district that had leaned Republican in recent years.
Boebert is expected to win her seat in November in Colorado’s conservative 4th District, which spans the vast ranches, ghost towns and conservative metropolitan areas that make up the western plains of the state, where voters overwhelmingly supported former President Trump in the 2020 election.
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Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
The seat was vacated when Rep. Buck resigned from the council. A special election to fill the remainder of Rep. Buck’s term will also be held Tuesday, with Republican candidate and former mayor Greg Lopez expected to win against Democrats and third-party candidates.
Buck cited the divisions in today’s politics and party loyalty to Trump as reasons for his decision to step down. The divisions have been factors in the campaign and are on full display in the Republican primary for the U.S. House of Representatives in Colorado Springs, about an hour’s drive south of Denver.
Boebert responds to reports that she got into a fight with her ex-husband at a Colorado restaurant after police were called.
Ken Buck (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Boebert, an ardent supporter of former President Trump, sparked controversy and made national headlines last September when she and her male companion were ejected from a Denver theater performance of the musical “Beetlejuice” for laughing, singing, recording and smoking e-cigarettes.
Boebert acknowledged the “unwanted attention” she received after appearing at the venue, but maintained that her words and actions that night were not intended to be “malicious” or “harmful.”
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“The past few days have been difficult and humiliating, and I am sincerely sorry for the unwanted attention I brought to our community on Sunday night in Denver,” Boebert said in a statement. “The actions and words I took that night as a private citizen were not intended to be malicious or to cause harm, but that is what happened, and I regret them.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
