According to a deep dive into Rep. Lauren Boebert's fall from grace with voters in her predominantly conservative district, former supporters and GOP leaders in Colorado admit they have grown tired of being associated with her.
The twice-elected Republican House member surprised Republicans in her state by abruptly announcing she won't defend her seat in the 3rd District and will hopscotch to the neighboring, and more conservative, 4th District.
As Politico's Ryan Biller reported, desperate times call for desperate measures and a "desperate" Boebert had no choice if she wants to return to Washington, D.C., for a third term that, if nothing else, guarantees her a government pension.
In an interview with Politico, hardcore conservative Boebert constituent Maisy Reid, 57, expressed her distaste for the House representative by stating, "It seemed she was out of touch.”
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"Boebert nearly lost her seat in 2022 because of a legion of alienated voters like Maisy Reid," Biller wrote. "And despite running in a district that voted for Donald Trump by an eight-point margin in 2020, her fortunes next year were looking even worse. She trailed in the polls, was being carpet-bombed by millions of dollars’ worth of Democratic attack ads and wasn’t even guaranteed to make it out of the Republican primary."
With the Politico report calling Boebert's district hopping a "desperate act by a desperate candidate.
“We gave the world Lauren Boebert and [disgraced election official] Tina Peters,” Grand View Mayor Anna Stout, a Democrat, explained. "We’re not proud of it. And although I don’t speak of this diverse district monolithically, there is an acute sense of being fed up here. We don’t want to be a national laughingstock.”
Illustrative of Boebert's collapse among her former supporters are election signs suddenly disappearing from view.
"For much of the past two years, if you were driving west on I-70 approaching Grand Junction, you could see similar sentiments on display at the Grand Junction Motor Speedway, a world-class, go-cart racetrack located on the outskirts of town. A long chain link fence that separates the road from the track was covered in upwards of 50 Lauren Boebert campaign signs, making it one of the first sights to greet visitors to the city, other than iconic Mount Garfield," Biller wrote before adding, "In October, however, all those signs disappeared. The owner didn’t return calls asking why."
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