The Daily Populous Friday November 11st, 2022 night edition
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Rep. Lauren Boebert, an outspoken right-wing freshman lawmaker, is in a tight battle for reelection.

She's running against Democrat Adam Frisch in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District.

Boebert has been a thorn in the Democratic Party's side while in office.

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GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert is in a tight race for reelection in Colorado as Republicans reckon with bleaker-than-expected results in the midterms.

Boebert is facing off in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District against Democrat Adam Frisch, a businessman and former city councilman.

If the two candidates finish with a lead of less than 0.5% of the total vote, it would trigger an automatic recount under state law, per The Colorado Sun. The outlet noted that other factors could affect the outcome in such a tight race, including military and overseas votes still in the postal system, or pending decisions on the eligibility of individual ballots.

Boebert — who had predicted a "red wave" on Election Day — hadn't spoken since results started trickling in. On Thursday she tweeted "Jesus is Lord" and shared a meme poking fun at the election process. By contrast, Frisch has tweeted multiple times since polls closed, including a post on Wednesday night urging Coloradans to fix errors on their ballots if needed so their vote will count.

Voters first elected Boebert in 2020. The representative from Rifle, Colorado, has used her position to be a thorn in the Democratic Party's side. Since taking public office, she's denied the 2020 presidential election results, interrupted President Joe Biden's State of the Union speech, and denigrated a Democratic member of Congress over their religion.

Two years later, her antics may have cost her a job, as she's close to joining the ranks of Rep. Madison Cawthorn as one of the few members of Congress to get elected in 2020, but lose their bid for reelection after only one term in office.

SignificantTrout on November 10th, 2022 at 12:32 UTC »

This is a measure of how much many of the Republicans in her district hate Boebert. Her district was redrawn this year and was made even redder than when she was elected previously. Some people do like her but Public Radio was interviewing a man in Pueblo who said he'd been a Republican since the Carter Administration but "they could have run a dog against her and I would have voted for it". The voting indicates it

I suspect that when the seat hopefully goes blue it will go red again in 2024 but it won't be Boebert at least.

SignificantTrout on November 10th, 2022 at 12:20 UTC »

Fyi for what it's worth most of the remaining votes are in counties that favor Frisch.

This will trigger the recount laws BTW.

__smokesletsgo__ on November 10th, 2022 at 12:13 UTC »

Associated Press has Boebert down 64 votes with 99% reporting.

ETA she is now leading by about 400 votes as people have pointed out..my comment is old information.