CNN now projects that virulently anti-LGBTQ+ Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) has lost her race against Democrat Eileen Laubacher, who has now flipped the typically safe red district to blue.
As of this writing, Boebert, who spent her three terms in Congress terrorizing LGBTQ+ people, has earned 47.9% of the vote to Laubacher’s 48.8%, with 98% of votes in.
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Boebert was first elected in 2020 and was narrowly reelected in 2022 in Colorado’s Third Congressional District. After that close call, she moved to Colorado’s Fourth Congressional District, which is more conservative than the Third, to more safely win reelection.
But apparently moving across the state wasn’t enough to keep her safe from this year’s blue wave.
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Colorado’s Fourth Congressional District voted for Donald Trump over Kamala Harris 58-40 in the 2024 election, making it deep red. Boebert won the general election that year by nearly 12 points.
Boebert said last weekthat she is fine with the prospect of not being reelected because “I’m a mom. I’m a granny, and I’m a believer. We’re going to continue moving: faith to faith, glory to glory.”
While in Congress, Boebert has introduced numerous anti-LGBTQ+ riders to appropriations bills, attempting to use must-pass spending bills as a way to get extreme measures like bans on trans people serving in the military through Congress. She even once introduced a measure toreduce a transgender federal official’s salary to $1, calling her a “delusional man thinking he is a woman” in her speech introducing the measure.
She has repeatedly stoked anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment. In 2022, she was listed as the third most responsible person driving anti-LGBTQ+ hate speech on Twitter. Among her many bigoted statements, Boeberthas accused LGBTQ+ people of “spitting in God’s face,” “butchering” children, and “perverting” the nation.
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