Lauren Boebert wins six-way primary in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District This makes her reelection highly likely

Due to the fact that Colorado’s fourth District is for Republicans, Lauren Boebert is the top choice to be the winner in November also.

By Jesse Paul, Brian Eason

Jun 26, 2024 05:43 AM

WINDSOR —U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert decisively won the six-way Republican primary on Tuesday at night, in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District which makes her reelection into Congress extremely likely despite more than two decades of embarrassment political and personal tension.

The race was announced to be called by The Associated Press at 7:21 p.m. just after the polls had ended around 7 p.m. The race was called when Boebert was able to get 43 percent of the votes. Boebert held that share throughout the night.

Five of Boebert’s Republican primary opponents came close to a win. As of 11:15 p.m. Former state senator. Jerry Sonnenberg was in an uncontested second place with 15 percent of the vote. He asked Boebert to give up.

Fans at the Boebert’s watch party in the Windsor restaurant were cheering loudly as Fox News, being broadcast through large televisions in the location announced Boebert’s victory. The congresswoman, sporting the MAKE AMERICA GREAT again hat that was which was signed by Donald Trump and a pair of brand-new, gold sneakers and hugged her mother. hug.

She was sighing with relief.

“We know we are going to have a landslide victory on Nov. 5 in CD4,” she declared when she declared her victory at the primaries.

Boebert promised to bring together Republicans as well as her primary adversaries, in her general campaign for election.

Due to how favorable because of how favourable the 4th District is to Republicans, Boebert is the overwhelming choice to win in November. The former U.S. Rep. Ken Buck who is an incumbent Republican was the winner of his two previous election in the GOP stronghold that encompasses Douglas County and Loveland and is sweeping across all of the Eastern Plains, by a staggering 23 percentage points for each.

Another indication that the district is not likely to vote for an incumbent Democrat against Boebert: Republican Greg Lopez on Tuesday easily won the special election in the district, allowing him to serve the remaining term the term of Boebert’s. (The congressman resigned his post on the 22nd of March.) The Lopez lead stood at 23 percent points at 11:45 p.m.

The huge primary field of candidates split the votes against Boebert and no candidate in the field could match Boebert’s ability to raise money and her fame and popular with voters. In the end, Boebert was the most popular on the air and her opponents struggled to find a winning message. Five of them seemed to struggle to determine if they should take on Boebert or one another or if they should rise above the tension.

“We can do better than Lauren Boebert,” Sonnenberg currently serves as the Logan County Commissioner, told the public in the sole TV advertisement that he was able to manage to pay for. “I will not embarrass you with scandals.”

Sonnenberg initially had promised not to smack his opponents during the campaign, but he changed his plan during the final stretch when Boebert seemed to be running off with the race.

“Boebert won because there was such a crowded primary and she has universal name ID,” ex-state Senator. Greg Brophy, a Republican who backed Sonnenberg. “Had Boebert had a head to head with almost any of the other five, she would have lost.”

Lori Weigel, a Republican pollster from Colorado Weigel said that the big primary field as well as Boebert’s identification played her favor. However, Weigel added that Boebert’s rivals also were unable to match her strength.

“I think we are in a topsy-turvy world where it’s an attention economy,” she stated. “As we’ve seen at presidency, it’s tough to stop an attention-seeking candidate. It’s possible to have brilliant ideas for policy but there’s a society that is a place where drama needs to be the focal point.”

In the final analysis it was it was the 4th District proved a soft place to land for what appeared as if Boebert’s downfall following she received 546 votes towin in 2022, beating Democrat Adam Frisch in the 3rd Congressional District, which is located on the opposite part of Texas.

After narrowly getting reelected two years ago she separated from her former husband, Jayson, and attempted to temper her image of a gun-toting, burning-it-down sexy woman. The marriage fell apart when she was removed in September from the performance in the show “Beetlejuice” in Denver after smoking and groping with a male friend. Her actions that she initially denied and later admitted to, was filmed by security cameras and broadcast across the nation. Her story became an iconic national story.

In December when her reelection campaign with the 3rd District still dragging due to the Beetlejuice scandal as well as the political prospects uncertain the decision of Buck to quit Congress provided an exit route. Buck changed her reelection planto contest an increasingly Republican Fourth District instead, and shocked the public with her unconventional choice.

Boebert moved her children, who were the youngest, from Rifle with their youngest kids to Windsor from Rifle at the start of the year. She informed that although the agricultural practices were different from where she was from but the principles were identical. Boebert was supported by Trump as well as House speaker Mike Johnson.

Although Boebert’s blatant bluff was received with admonition and disdain from the powerful players from the District 4, votersaccording to the results of Tuesday’s election evidently felt a different way.

Dan Stephen, who lives in Elbert County and is the manager of the Franktown Firearms Shooting Center, said to The Colorado Sun after the congresswoman toured the shop in February that he did not mind the fact that she recently moved to the district.

“Everything I’ve seen with her and read about her — I just think she’s a strong force,” he stated. “It’s something we’re all looking for. She appears to be an actual person. There’s no rival in my opinion.”

He also said: “It’s time for change all over the board. I believe will be a welcomed addition to this district.”

At 11:15 p.m. Here’s the way that Boebert’s remaining Republican candidates in the fourth District primary were doing:

• Conservative commentator Deborah Flora — 14%
• State Rep. Richard Holtorf — 11%
• State Rep. Mike Lynch — 11%
• Peter Yu, a mortgage broker Peter Yu — 7 percent

Boebert said to reporters she was nervous going into the weekend ahead of Election Day.

“I was thinking “Would I have missed something? Are there things I’m not seeing. Did I miss someone that I didn’t get to and didn’t speak to, or didn’t spend the time enough with? ‘” Boebert said Tuesday night.

Overall, Boebert said, she was confident that she as well as her team did the effort to be successful.

“I came into this knowing that I was going to have to work,” she said about her district shift.

The AP described three candidates for the Democratic primary for the 4th District for Trisha Calvarese an ex-speechwriter and congressional staffer on November 33 at 11:00 p.m.

Calvarese stated that the school was “incredibly proud to be a daughter of the district.”

“I am personally aware of the economic issues we are facing. Everyone would like to know what you planning to provide for my familyThis is my family,” she said.

At the time that the race was announced, Calvarese was leading with 45% of the votes. The second place finisher came Marine veteran Ike McCorkle which lost the race to Buck in 2022 and 2020 with just 41 percent of the votes. In third place and not even a shot of getting a head start came John Padora, a manufacturing engineer with 13 percent of the votes.

Calvarese was defeated by a large difference in the race to Lopez at his 4th District special election Tuesday to complete the term of Buck in Congress.