I was so hoping that we would be rid of Lauren Boebert today. Alas, it is not to be. She will be on the November ticket and take on Ike McCorkle. And yes, it’s a very deeply red district that Donald Trump won by 19 points in 2020. But that doesn’t mean that it’s impossible to flip that seat. Boebert almost lost last time in her other district by less than 600 votes. So she’s not bulletproof and that was in a pre-Beetlejuice world. Or, maybe MAGA toxin is impossible to overcome and this is what GOP politics is going to look like for a long time. Those are pretty much the choices: Boebert goes down in flames in November, or she continues to be a MAGA troll because this is who the GOP really is. The Hill:
The Colorado Republican, who currently represents the western 3rd Congressional District, initially ran for another term in that district, after narrowly winning her second term against Democrat Adam Frisch by several hundred votes in 2022.
She decided late last year to instead run in the eastern — and safely red — 4th Congressional District to avoid another expensive and competitive House race. But Boebert’s path to winning the Republican nomination was far from certain when she decided to run in the new district.
For one, Boebert fielded attacks from new opponents who called her a carpetbagger.
She was also dogged by unflattering headlines after she was caught vaping and causing a disturbance at a “Beetlejuice” musical in Denver last year, forcing her to publicly address and apologize for the incident in conversations with voters.
Perhaps Boebert’s biggest concern, however, was when Buck announced he would be retiring early, triggering a special election for the seat. To make matters worse, the special election to finish his term was scheduled on the same day as the GOP primary for the full two-year term.
Boebert opted against running in the special election because doing so would have required her to step down from her current 3rd District seat, triggering a special election to fill the rest of her term. That would have been a precarious move given Republicans’ narrow House majority and the fact her seat was almost within Democrats’ reach last cycle.
We shall see what we shall see. It’s not over until it’s over. Boebert’s old seat has a possibility of flipping blue and this seat might as well. The primary election is one thing, the general election is something else altogether.
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Looks like tits and ass trumps the ten commandments…can’t say I’m shocked.
I’m a little surprised she won. Carpet-bagger, porn star wannabe, extraordinarily ignorant, I’d have thought these were the three strikes that would take her down–especially the first two. Were the other primary opponents such poor candidates or did they split the vote?
Most likely a combination of the two. After all, this is how Von Schintzenpantz won the nomination in 2016…..
I certainly expected Ike McCorkle to win the Democratic primary, though I also thought John Padora had a slim chance. Both were wrong. It was in fact Trisha Calvarese with 45%. Ike was next with 41%. John was a distant third with about 14%. Colorado Public Radio and the local Fox channel agree on this.