Boebert constituents grateful she’s 'running scared' in 2024: 'They’re just embarrassed'
In December, US Representative Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado) switched districts in an effort to dodge reelection hurdles. The Washington Post reported the Colorado GOP leader moved from the state's 3rd Congressional District to the "4th Congressional District — where conservative GOP Rep. Ken Buck has decided not to seek reelection in 2024."
Boebert's main reelection challenge was fueled by attorney and Democratic candidate Adam Frisch, who she almost lost to in 2022.
According to The Independent, many Republican voters in Boebert's former district are happy about the right-wing lawmaker's decision.
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"She’s always in drama here in Rifle and Silt," a 66-year-old native to Boebert's hometown toldThe IndependentThe Independent. "She’s not the most popular person anymore."
In September, the Republican congresswoman was criticized after she "was kicked out of a Beetlejuice performance at Denver's Buell Theater on Sunday, September 10," over her refusal to stop "vaping near a pregnant woman."
GOP state Rep. Matt Soper told the news outlet that Boebert "embraced a very religious, conservative perspective, but then her Beetlejuice night basically made her appear to be very hypocritical … and that’s where a lot of people began really, really questioning not just her judgement, but who she really was. And, as a politician, the last thing you want to be questioned on is who you are."
A 40-year-old voter told The Independent, "There are people I know that are Trump supporters that don’t support her, and they started out, like, ‘Yeah, ra, ra, ra,’ and now, they’re just embarrassed – because she just makes a fool out of herself. When she comes to public places around here, it’s just not professional."
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The news outlet notes, "Frisch, for one, gleefully released a statement immediately after Boebert’s district swap announcement, gloating that she was 'running scared.' He told The Independent last weekend, as he campaigned across CD3’s massive land area, that he’d only learned of her exit “about an hour before it became public."
The congressional candidate emphasized, "One of many reasons why I ran was to see her pack her bags out of the district, and so we are proud of doing that, and we’re excited about that. That whole circus of her own personal stuff has now left the building, left the district, and one of the things I’ve been trying to do from Day One is try to tell why people should be voting for us, not against anyone specifically – that, again, this is not Team Red or Team Blue, this is Team CD3 – and focus on Colorado water, Colorado jobs, Colorado domestic energy."
