Representative Lauren Boebert (R-CO), said that she will not compete in the special election to replace retiring Representative Ken Buck (RINO-CO), blaming party officials for a “backroom deal” that could cost her key Republican Party support and imperil her prospects of winning in his district in November.
Boebert serves Colorado’s third district; however, she narrowly won by fewer than 600 votes in 2022 in a traditionally Republican area.
Boebert said in December that she would move districts and run for Buck’s fourth seat in November 2024, shortly after he announced his retirement.
Buck, on the other hand, said yesterday that he will depart Congress even earlier next week, prompting Colorado to have a special election to select a representative to complete the remainder of his term.
Republicans will nominate a single candidate for the special election, which is planned for June 25—the same day as the Republican primary for the seat—potentially giving that candidate more resources and institutional support in a crowded field of nine hopefuls.
He did this intentionally to screw over Boebert. In order to run in the special election to replace him, Boebert would have to resign her current seat, reducing the Republicans’ razor-thin majority to four votes. Buck recently said that there are three other GOP resignations coming soon. Again, I have to wonder what promises and guarantees were made to Buck to pull this move. The Democrats obviously want to have the majority of the house during the president-elect phase so that they can screw Trump over if he wins.
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELBoebert said she will still run in the primary election for Buck’s seat, but she will not seek the Republican nomination for the special election, which could confuse voters who may want to vote for the same candidate again in November.
Boebert announced her intention not to run in the special election on Wednesday, lashing out at the process and calling Buck’s retirement “a gift to the uniparty,” and vowed to serve out the remainder of her time in the third district. “The establishment concocted a swampy backroom deal to try to rig an election I’m winning by 25 points,” she wrote in a post on X, alluding to an early poll that has her at 32%, with the majority undecided.
Boebert was first elected to Congress in 2020, immediately becoming one of former President Donald Trump‘s most vocal supporters in the House.
However, controversy and gaffes marred her first term, including calling antisemitic Muslim Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) a “terrorist,” introducing legislation to designate the AR-15 as the “national gun,” and heckling President Joe Biden while he was speaking about soldiers injured in the Iraq War during a State of the Union address.
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