Facing increasingly long re-election odds, Rep. Lauren Boebert has come up with a new plan: The Colorado Republican is moving. NBC News reported late Wednesday:
Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., announced Wednesday that she’ll be seeking the GOP nomination next year in a neighboring congressional district that’s solidly Republican, instead of her district where she eked out a win against a Democratic opponent during the 2022 midterms. Boebert said she would be running in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District, where fellow Republican Rep. Ken Buck previously announced he would not seek re-election.
In a video message posted to Facebook, the far-right congresswoman said, in reference to the district shift, “I did not arrive at this decision easily. A lot of prayer, a lot of tough conversations and a lot of perspective convinced me that this is the best way I can continue to fight for Colorado, for the conservative movement, and for my children’s future.”
What Boebert did not say is that if she ran for re-election in her own district, she was very likely to lose. Rhetoric about “the conservative movement” notwithstanding, the motivation behind the Republican’s shift appears to be about little more than survival.
Circling back to our earlier coverage, soon after taking office in 2021, Boebert became one of Congress’ most controversial members. Six months into her first term, The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank wrote a column describing the congresswoman as being “lost in a cacophony of crazy.”
It was generally assumed, however, that she’d face no real consequences for her partisan antics. After all, Boebert represented a GOP-friendly district where her re-election was all but assured. Headed into the 2022 midterm elections, FiveThirtyEight’s forecast model showed the right-wing incumbent with a 97% chance of winning, despite her routine ridiculousness.
What the political world didn’t fully appreciate was just how many voters in her Colorado…
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