Thousands of Democrats in Western Colorado are voting in the primary on Tuesday against Representative Lauren Boebert, part of a broader effort to defeat far-right Republicans. Controversial Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) leads her Democratic challenger Adam Frisch by only two points, according to a new poll out this week. [34], In September 2019, Boebert made national headlines when she confronted Beto O'Rourke, a candidate in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, at an Aurora town hall meeting over his proposal for a buy-back program and a ban on assault-style rifles like AR-15s. Meanwhile in Colorado Rep Lauren Boebert is set to be the latest far-right Trump acolyte to face her own primary challenge; she's facing a challenge from Don Coram of the Colorado General. Yes, but she will have more backing and more support because of people like me in all 29 of her counties.. [92][93][94] The recount was completed on December 12 and affirmed that Boebert won by about 500 votes. [146][149] After Boebert and Omar spoke by phone, both said the call went badly, with Boebert saying that she would put "America first, never sympathizing with terrorists. One of every four Pueblo residents lives in poverty. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) drew outrage with her threatening response to Twitter's ban of fellow far-right extremist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene 's . She stands up for the Constitution, and shes fiscally conservative, he added. She Says She Reimbursed The Money", "Lauren Boebert vows to stay her course as she seeks another term in Congress", "Gloves come off in first debate between congressional candidates Don Coram and Lauren Boebert", "Fact check: Democratic group makes multiple false claims in its dramatic allegations about Lauren Boebert's past", "Rep. Lauren Boebert has yet to file defamation suit over claims by American Muckrakers PAC", "Who is David Wheeler? Bottom left: The old steel mill in Pueblo. Bri Buentello is an educator and former Democratic state legislator who lost her seat, which includes parts of Pueblo County, last November. Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) October 4, 2022 [73] As of 2021, Colorado classified Boebert Consulting as a delinquent company due to the lack of filings or registered agent with the state. She is also among Boeberts most vocal critics in the district. Boeberts message of government overreach during the pandemic, which was a major theme of her 2020 campaign, also still reverberates in Colorados libertarian corners, including parts of Pueblo. Bombastic Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert may be in for a closer race than expected in November, according to new data from a Democratic polling firm. [154] She opposes any tax increases. No more horse and pony shows from the west.. ", "Shooters Grill In Rifle Defies Cease-And-Desist Order", "Shooters Grill Moves Tables Outside To Serve Customers After Cease & Desist Order", "Shooters Grill in Rifle has food license suspended, owner says", "Court case against Shooters Grill dismissed, but license still suspended as county, owner negotiate reopening", "A fluke or the future? [42][43], In December 2019, Boebert launched her bid to represent Colorado's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives, beginning with a challenge to five-term incumbent Scott Tipton in the Republican primary. A Democrats from Denver to the District of Columbia got a big boost last week, with a new poll of Colorado's 3rd District showing controversial conservative Rep. Lauren Boebert in political danger. [55][56], On June 30, Boebert won the Republican nomination with 54.6% of the vote to Tipton's 45.4%. In an unexpectedly tight race where the freshman lawmaker, an ally of . She accused Arizona of "unlawfully amending its voter registration laws by extending the registration periods", alleging widespread voter fraud, which echoed the false claims aired by Donald Trump, and accusing everyone who intended to accept the "results of this concentrated, coordinated, partisan effort by Democrats" of having allied themselves with the extremist left. And Boebert now has the support of Take Back the House 2022, organized in January to collect contributions for Republican candidates, which has donated about $71,078 to her campaign; the House Freedom Fund, which supports conservative grassroots candidates, has donated $20,657. "Fewer guns make sense," Frisch, 54, said matter-of . "A new poll" = I talked to the voices in my head. Recent assessments designated it structurally deficient.. [9][134] She has also said she became religious while attending a church in Glenwood Springs[17] and volunteered at a local jail for seven years. Do I think shes going to a have a tough reelection? Boebert said that Mitsch Bush's platform was "more government control" and that Mitsch Bush had a "socialist agenda". [130], Boebert opposes the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which would elect the president by popular vote. And now Im watching my children attend a school that is underfunded. When those who picked Donald Trump were asked their second choice, 42 percent answered DeSantis, 23 percent said Pence, and 6 percent chose Haley. [39], Boebert was an organizer of the December 2019 "We Will Not Comply!" Rep. Lauren Boebert's Shooters Grill will be replaced by a Mexican restaurant Tapatios recently applied for a liquor license at 120 E. 3rd St. in Rifle A Mexican restaurant is taking over a high-profile location in the town of Rifle, Colorado, where U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert's Shooters Grill previously resided. [216], In 2015, Boebert was detained at a music festival for shouting at a group of people arrested for underage drinking, yelling that the arrest was unconstitutional because they had not received Miranda warnings. The job shes doing is fundamentally disconnected from [the district] and our needs.. She's one of the top fundraisers in the House, raising over $6 million since taking office, according to her latest disclosure with the Federal Election Commission. Boeberts most formidable challenger so far is Democratic state Sen. Kerry Donovan, who lives in the mountains in Vailconsiderably closer to Boeberts hometown of Rifleand who raised nearly $644,000 in two months after declaring her candidacy in February. Rep. Lauren Boebert, one of the Republican party's biggest right-wing stars, is locked in a tight reelection battle with Adam Frisch, a Democrat from Aspen running as a "conservative. Polling site FiveThirtyEight put her odds of victory at 97%. CO-3 race between Lauren Boebert, Adam Frisch likely going to a recount. [181] After the election, she said she was undecided about whether it was best to keep or repeal Obamacare, but wished that a more market-based system would be adopted. [4][5][6][7] She opposes transitioning to green energy, COVID-19 mask and vaccine mandates, abortion, sex education, gender affirmation surgery for minors, and non-heterosexual marriage. The resolution, which was introduced by Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) earlier this month, claims that by . [78][79] A Democratic-aligned Super PAC made false claims and unproven allegations about Boebert. Both Boebert and Coram agreed that Colorado's forests need to be managed better to prevent wildfires and that it should start locally. [193] She introduced a bill that would ban all mask mandates on federal property and during travel in interstate commerce, attracting no support. [96] Boebert was one of the people who voiced support for the Freedom Convoy 2022, a Canadian trucker protest seeking to repeal all COVID-19 vaccination mandates and COVID-19 restrictions. After enduring its fourth outbreak in the spring, Pueblo County lifted capacity restrictions for all businesses on May 17, when case counts had improved. At a recent listening session on a sunlit brewery patio bordering a weedy lot with an abandoned factory, Sandoval urged representatives from the citys churches, universities, school systems, and Native American and Latino communities to help her raise money and awareness about her campaign. Houston was No. She reported $1.9 million on hand as of Sept. 30. [163] She has introduced a forest management bill, the Active Forest Management, Wildfire Prevention and Community Protection Act, which would attempt to prevent wildfires through several mitigation measures, such as removing trees killed by bark beetles, making it harder for groups to go to court to stop forest thinning, and requiring the United States Forest Service to harvest sixbillion board foot (14million cubic meters) of lumber annually. A new poll commissioned by Adam Frisch's campaign shows the Democratic candidate for Colorado's 3rd Congressional District trailing incumbent Rep. Lauren Boebert by just 2 percentage points. [77] She has equated the behavior of some of the rioters that participated in the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests following the murder of George Floyd to those who attacked the Capitol. Democratic pollster Public Policy Polling has been surveying the race for the Chicago Sun-Times . A similar poll in July had Boebert ahead 49% to 42%. [161] In February 2021, Boebert proposed a bill to ban executive moratoriums on oil and gas leases and permits on some federal lands. The Keating Research poll, conducted from . As of Monday evening, Ms Boebert is leading by 1,122 votes, with 99 per cent of votes reported. [135], After saying that she planned to carry a gun while working on Capitol Hill,[17][136] Boebert published a viral video advertisement showing her placing a handgun in a hip holster and walking through the neighborhood, near federal buildings and through alleys. The Democrat running to unseat U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert has pulled within 2 percentage points of the Republican incumbent in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District, putting the candidates in a statistical tie only weeks before voting begins in the state, according to an internal poll released Tuesday by Boebert's challenger. But Trump backed her general election campaign. [65] Mitsch Bush outraised Boebert, with $4.2 million for her and nearly $4 million spent by Democratic operatives, as opposed to Boebert's $2.4 million raised and more than $5 million spent by the Republicans, but Boebert won the election, 51.27% to 45.41%. Kimberly Ricci Film/TV Editor Twitter. At the same time, Colorados Republican Party has only moved more in Boeberts direction since her election, and the national GOP has embraced her and her campaign. [196] In response, the Campaign for Accountability, an ethics watchdog group, filed a complaint with the House Committee on Ethics and requested an investigation into Boebert and the other lawmakers. House Republicans, including Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert, are sponsoring a bill that is sure to rile the left. The Pueblo region is home to three of those candidates, as well as to a political action committee that is hoping to defeat Boebert. [18], Boebert promotes the ideals of Christian nationalism. I had to make those connections, and really, I underreported a lot of stuff. [152] She later said the remark was made in jest. [155] While expressing support for more defense expenditure, Boebert was one of 75 House Republicans to vote against the National Defense Authorization Act of 2022,[156] saying the bill had a "woke agenda". Far-right Rep. Lauren Boebert defeated her more moderate challenger in the Republican primary for Colorado's 3rd Congressional District on Tuesday, NBC News projected. [81], Boebert's campaign had a significant advantage, with $5 million in campaign funds to Coram's $225,000; Coram also started campaigning late in the primary,[83][84] and Boebert was endorsed by Donald Trump. American Muckrakers PAC set sights on Boebert", "In Boebert's District, as Elsewhere, Democrats Surge Into G.O.P. [172][173] She also voted against the bipartisan ALLIES Act, which would increase by 8,000 the number of special immigrant visas for Afghan allies of the U.S. military during its invasion of Afghanistan while also reducing some application requirements that caused long application backlogs; the bill passed the House, 40716. 5038, the Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2019, saying that the act had a provision that led to citizenship and provided funding for housing for undocumented farm workers. Boebert shakes up Colorado district", "5-term Rep. 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Scott Tipton in the process", "GOP Congressman Scott Tipton was defeated by right-wing primary challenger Lauren Boebert in Colorado's 3rd congressional district", "Owner of Shooters Grill challenges Tipton in primary", "Republican candidate and owner of gun-toting grill accuses Tipton of supporting amnesty bill", "Restaurant owner gets top line on Republican primary ballot", "National GOP congressional group names Lauren Boebert to 'Young Guns' program", "GOP Candidates Open To QAnon Conspiracy Theory Advance In Congressional Races", "The QAnon supporters winning congressional primaries, explained", "Lauren Boebert, Gun-Rights Activist, Upsets House G.O.P. Shell also have more support from the institutional Republican Party. October 6, 2022. Some of its cylindrical stoves are rusted and emptya symbol of an industry that Perko, a fourth-generation steelworker and president of a local union, says is in need of government help. [8] When she was 12, she and her family moved to the Montbello neighborhood of Denver and later to Aurora, Colorado, before settling in Rifle, Colorado, in 2003. Boebert later apologized "to anyone in the Muslim community I offended with my comment about Representative Omar". So far, Boebert has one announced Republican challenger, Marina Zimmerman, a crane operator who bills herself as a genuine blue-collar candidate.. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) attempted to make Tuesday night's State of the Union address all about herselfonly to get booed by her colleagues as President Joe Biden solemnly talked about his. Pueblo is among Colorados most diverse cities. [204][205], Boebert opposes comprehensive sex education, abortion and federal funding of Planned Parenthood. [210] Experts said her statement is contrary to the Constitution's Establishment Clause. 1 for the second straight week in the poll . The article said that although she had only been in Congress for a few days, she had "already arranged several episodes that showcased her brand of far-right defiance as a conspiracy theorist" and that she "represents an incoming faction of the party for whom breaking the rulesand gaining notoriety for doing itis exactly the point. Perko didnt vote for her. [48] Boebert decried what she said was Tipton's insufficient efforts to continue funding for the Paycheck Protection Program, whose money had run out within two weeks, arguing that more was needed. The 140-year-old complex had forged the iron that built the West, and once was Colorados largest employer, with some 10,000 workers. June 29, 2022 ASPEN, Colo. - (June 29, 2022) - A new poll from Center Street PAC ( www.centerstreetpac.com ), a nonpartisan political action committee, shows Rep. Lauren Boebert (CO-03) holds a 39% favorability within her district, while 44% of her constituents have an unfavorable view of her. [169], Boebert was one of 14 House Republicans, most of them members of the Freedom Caucus, to vote against a measure condemning the Myanmar coup d'tat that passed overwhelmingly. [44], Boebert faced Democratic former state representative Diane Mitsch Bush, a retired sociology professor from Steamboat Springs, Colorado, in the November general election. [3] She supports Trump's false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him and voted to overturn its results during the Electoral College vote count. [200][201] She opposes same-sex marriage, writing on her campaign website that she is against "efforts to redefine marriage as anything other than the union of one man and one woman". [78], Boebert supporters failed to throw Coram off the ballot for allegedly not having collected enough signatures. Was introduced by Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz ( R-FL ) earlier this month, claims that by ] she said. 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