Rep. Lauren Boebert, a staunch conservative, is facing a more difficult than anticipated reelection campaign as her Democratic opponent, Adam Frisch, has maintained a slim lead throughout the evening.
Boebert had a good start in the competition. The 3rd congressional district’s red tilt, with a 9-point Republican lead, was cemented by redistricting. She also had the benefit of having a national name recognition and nearly $2 million in campaign funds, unlike the majority of the Colorado delegation.
In a message to her supporters on Tuesday night, Boebert stated that she was still awaiting the results of “same day voting ballots.”
Many Republicans have waited until today to cast their ballots, she added. “In Mesa County, they are doing it. The third district of Colorado is covered in them.
She has been underperforming in numerous counties compared to the 2020 results, even though there are still a lot of ballots to be counted.
Morgan Carroll, chair of the Colorado Democratic Party, said Frisch has made a lot of effort to create “a coalition of normal” in the district across partisan boundaries.
She attributed Frisch’s narrow advantage in the campaign to his “particular courting of all regular Republicans on the Western Slope,” his “active going after the unaffiliated vote, which is the overwhelming vote [in that district], and he went out to the Democratic base vote early.”
After pulling off an unexpected upset over Republican incumbent Scott Tipton in the 2020 primary, Boebert herself ran for office. However, scandal has surrounded her during her whole first time in Congress. She produced a video shortly after landing in Washington, D.C., in which she declared her intention to bring a pistol to the Capitol. As a crowd invaded the capitol on January 6, 2021, she tweeted Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s whereabouts and later joined opposition to the certification of the results of the 2020 presidential election. She booed President Joe Biden more recently during the State of the Union speech.
After she implied that Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar was a terrorist, Democrats pushed to have her removed from the committees she serves on.
In the meanwhile, Frisch, a former member of the Aspen City Council who is running as a somewhat conservative Democrat, has canvassed the whole district to make his centrist case.
Former congressman and commissioner for Mesa County Scott McInnis stated that district residents expect their representative to perform. “I believe that patience wears out quite rapidly… Therefore, if the representative from this district didn’t deliver, they will be held accountable.
In the third district, registered Republicans exceeded registered Democrats, although unaffiliated voters make up the largest group. According to the most recent state statistics, 23.5 percent of registered Democrats and 34.4 percent of registered Republicans made up the district’s active voters, or roughly 44 percent of them.
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