Colorado Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert will lose to Democratic challenger Eileen Laubacher in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District, The Related Press projected Friday.
With 99% of the anticipated vote reported, Laubacher led with 48.8% of the vote, adopted by Boebert’s 47.9%. Laubacher led by round 3,400 votes when the AP made its projection.
In a post on X, Boebert stated she had referred to as Laubacher and provided her congratulations. As for her future, she instructed her followers to “Keep tuned!”
Rep. Lauren Boebert seems on throughout a Home Oversight and Authorities Reform Committee listening to within the Capitol Constructing, March 4, 2026.
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Laubacher retired from the Navy as an admiral after 34 years of service and was senior director for South Asia on the Nationwide Safety Council throughout President Joe Biden’s administration. She is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy.
Boebert, 39, first gained nationwide consideration in 2019 as a gun rights advocate when she challenged then-Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke over his pledge to pursue gun management measures.
She was first elected in 2020 to signify Colorado’s third Congressional District and received re-election by lower than 600 votes in 2022. Two years later, she opted to run in the 4th District and received a 3rd time period.
Her time on Capitol Hill was highlighted by two makes an attempt to question President Joe Biden, as she had been certainly one of President Donald Trump’s fiercest defenders in Congress earlier than breaking with his administration final yr over a discharge petition to pressure the discharge of the Jeffrey Epstein information. She was certainly one of 4 Republicans who signed it, becoming a member of Reps. Thomas Massie, who co-sponsored the petition with Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna, Nancy Mace and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Massie misplaced his re-election bid to a Trump-backed challenger earlier this yr within the primaries; Mace did not run for re-election to the Home to launch a failed bid for governor in South Carolina; and Greene resigned from the Home final January after Trump withdrew his support for her after she criticized him and his administration for his or her dealing with of the Epstein investigation, together with different issues.
Boebert additionally drew the ire of Hillary Clinton for leaking images of the previous Secretary of State when she sat for a closed-door transcribed interview within the Home Oversight Committee’s Epstein inquiry.
