Lauren Boebert Switches Districts After It Becomes Clear She Can't Win

Lauren Boebert announced this week that she is switching Congressional districts and will no longer be running for reelection in Colorado's 3rd district, opting instead to run for the seat being vacated by retiring Republican Ken Buck in Colorado's much more conservative 4th district. Boebert will likely still have a heck of a primary fight ahead of her, but if she survives that, she won't have any trouble winning the general election. Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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Republican representative Lauren Bobert, uh, released a video on Facebook this week to let everybody know that she was in fact not going to be running for office again in Colorado's third congressional district. Now, before you get too excited about that, she said she's not gonna be running in Colorado's third district. She's instead going to be running in Colorado's fourth district, which is far more conservative than the third district where she currently holds the seat. So the reason is obvious, Lauren Bobert was facing a very tough democratic challenger in the third district, along with a very tough Republican primary opponent in the third district. So the likelihood of her winning that seat again, uh, was basically non-existent. In fact, even before, the Beetlejuice incident, she was already trailing her Democratic opponent. So she decided, screw it. If I can't win here, I'll just go a little bit down the street to the fourth district and I'll just run there.

I will uproot my family so that I can keep this seat because I have no other job to fall back on because my restaurant was taken away. Here's what she said in her video. Today I'm announcing my candidacy for the 2024 Republican nomination to represent Colorado's fourth congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. It's the right move for me personally, and it's the right decision for those who support our conservative movement. Uh, this is the right move for Colorado for us. Since the first day I ran for public office, I promised I would do whatever it takes to stop the socialists and communists from taking over our country. That means staying in the fight, but it also means not allowing Hollywood elites and progressive money groups to buy the third district a seat that they have no business owning. I will not allow dark money that is directed at destroying me personally to steal this seat.

It's not fair to the third district and the conservatives there who have fought so hard for our victories, of which I'm incredibly grateful. Personally, this announcement is a fresh start following a pretty difficult year for me and my family. Uh, I had never been in politics before and I'd never been through a divorce, something I never intended to go through. I've made my own personal mistakes and have owned up and apologized for them. It, it's tested my faith, my strength, and my abilities, both as a mom and a congresswoman. It's been humbling and challenging, but it's also given me perspective and helped me grow. I can put into words how grateful I am for everyone who has steadfastly stood alongside me in the third district and across America. Whew, that's a lot of words to say, wow, y'all hate me, so I'm leaving. I mean, honestly, that's really all you had to say. And sure, there's a lot of Hollywood money. There's progressive money flying into the third district to help Adam Frisch, but you're saying that they would buy the seat, but those people can't vote.

So it's still the voters that would be choosing somebody else over you. Now, the fourth district, uh, that seat is currently held by Republican Ken Buck, who has been in the news a lot recently for finally admitting that his party is just totally insane, but he announced he is not running for reelection. But last year, buck won that seat with 60% of the vote. So it is a very conservative district. Bobert won her seat, uh, reelection by 546 votes. Buck wins it by 60%, so the fourth district far more conservative. So if she survives the primary 'cause, she will have opponents.