By Peyton Sorosinski, Washington Examiner | SOURCE: THE GAZETTE
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) will have to convince voters from her new district why they should send her back to Washington in Thursday’s first Republican primary debate.
Boebert made the switch to the plains of Colorado‘s 4th Congressional District across the state from her mountainous 3rd District, which she is representing for a second term after narrowly beating Democratic challenger Adam Frisch in 2022. The two were slated to go head-to-head again this year before Boebert switched to the eastern Colorado district over uncertainties of whether or not she could beat him again. Despite her new district voting for former President Donald Trump, of whom she has been a staunch supporter, by 20 percentage points in 2020, voters are not sold on the firebrand representative.
“She feels she is a better candidate than the ones that we have,” Republican voter Robin Varhelman, who works at a cattle auction she owns in Brush, told the Colorado Sun. “She’s gonna have to explain to people why.”
Boebert, who was first elected to the House in 2020, won in 2022 by 546 votes out of the 327,000 that were cast. The originally conservative-leaning district has become more blue in recent years. Boebert’s race for an open seat in the increasingly red 4th District may not be a clean sweep for the loyal Trump supporter, who will have to appeal to a more traditional Christian-conservative voter base.