Lauren Boebert loses Colorado seat after six years in Congress

Lauren Boebert’s run in the U.S. House has come to an end: after the remaining ballots were counted, the Associated Press declared Democrat Eileen Laubacher the winner of Colorado’s closely watched race. Boebert will not serve a fourth term, according to the report. Boebert became nationally known as one of Donald Trump’s most vocal allies and a prominent figure in the MAGA movement. She first won election to Congress in 2020, having unseated a five-term Republican incumbent in the party primary. Before that political breakthrough, she had drawn attention for encouraging staff at her restaurant, Shooters, to openly carry firearms, the article says. Her campaign appearances and public profile were closely associated with gun rights and combative attacks on Democrats and political opponents. In Congress, Boebert regularly attracted attention with forceful pro-Trump rhetoric. One of the moments highlighted in the report came during President Joe Biden’s 2022 State of the Union address, when she joined fellow Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene in heckling him. Colorado Republican Matt Soper recalled meeting Boebert and her then-husband, Jayson, while she was collecting signatures for a voting initiative. He told the BBC that he had not expected her to go on to become a nationally prominent politician and serve six years in Congress. The result closes a remarkable chapter for a representative who rose from a local business and a state-level political campaign to a high-profile role in Washington. The report describes a race that was too close to call on election night, with the final outcome emerging only after the votes had been counted.