Boebert's Reelection Campaign Is Going Down In Flames

Republican Representative Lauren Boebert is not doing well with her reelection campaign, and her third quarter fundraising was pathetic compared to her competitors. Not only did she get outraised 4 to 1 by her Democratic opponent, but her Republican primary challenger managed to pull in half of what Boebert raised. On top of that, Boebert has been consistently trailing in the polls, and her antics recently aren't helping her case. Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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Lauren Bert's reelection campaign is going down in flames much faster and basically much harder than any of us ever could have imagined. Granted, the election is still, you know, 12 and a half months away, but as things stand right now, Bobert is getting crushed. Not only in the polls that show her Democratic challenger out, Adam Frisch handily defeating her, but in the fundraising department, Bobert, her most recent financial disclosure for the third quarter says that she only raised about $854,000. $854,000 over a three month span. For a second term member of Congress, seeking a third term is very weak, especially when you consider the fact that Adam Fri actually outraised her four to one. So for every $1, Bobert got, Adam Fris got four, he ended the third quarter with $3.2 million raised. Now, don't get your hopes up too much on that because as I've talked about in the past, money flows from all over the country from people who cannot vote in that race.

So the fundraising alone is not necessarily an indication that Frisch is going to just level Bobert in the election. Now it does give him more money to run ads, and obviously there's lots of material to run ads on about Lauren Bobert. I mean, I think the first thing that comes to mind is Beetlejuice. Uh, you could show that footage repeatedly, constantly, nonstop on the air to remind people how the only time Lauren Bobert wants to reach across the aisle is when her, well, you know, I'll leave it at that. Use your imagination or watch the video and see for yourself. So that's probably not gonna play too well for her. Then of course, you have her most recent antics last week when she decided that she did not want to empower the temporary speaker of the house. Patrick McHenry came out vocally against that.

So that embarrassed her district, the Beetlejuice thing, definitely embarrassed her district. She's been embarrassing her district all year, going all the way back to January when she opposed Kevin McCarthy being speaker and interviews with her own constituents showed that even though she'd only been back in Congress for a second term for a couple days, they were already sick of her. So sick of her. In fact, that it brings me back to the campaign money for the third quarter, and Lauren Bobert has a Republican challenger. Lauren Bobert not only has a Republican challenger, Lauren Bobert has a Republican challenger that's actually doing pretty good. Her challenger man by the name of Jeff Herd raised $412,000 in the third quarter. Now, she raised 8 54, he raised four 12, so

He got almost half of what she got. Here's the thing, Lauren Bobert, before she even gets to face off against Adam Frisch, has to win her primary A. And this is a part of the equation that honestly, up to this point I hadn't really been considering. You know, it was assumed Lauren Bobert, again, she's in her second term, seeking her third, that she would be the nominee. But if those constituents are tired enough of her, they could easily just say, well, I don't wanna vote for a Democrat. Definitely don't wanna vote for Bobert. So what I can do is I can just vote for the other Republican, right? We can remove Lauren Bobert from the ballot and replace her with a Republican who's not gonna embarrass us every five seconds. So that is definitely something to keep an eye on, um, es especially as we go forward.

But another way that that hurts Bobert is instead of using her poultry, you know, campaign money that she has, 'cause she doesn't have a ton of it, she's not gonna be able to use it for the general election fight. She's gonna have to blow through that money on a primary fight. So even if she survives the primary, it's gonna be a PY victory and she's not gonna have the funds necessary to fight off the onslaught from Adam Fri because he's sitting on a massive campaign war chest. So no matter how you slice it, there's a very good chance that this next, you know, 13 months might be hopefully Lauren Bert's last 13 months in office. Let's hope.