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Rep. Lauren Boebert is Switching Congressional Districts.

Anything to win, right?

Lauren Elizabeth
3 min readDec 29, 2023
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Ah, Lauren Boebert.

It’s been quite a year for the Colorado lawmaker hasn’t it?

Following a 2022 election in which she barely survived a challenge to her seat, Lauren Boebert has been making headlines for reasons ranging from a feud with Marjorie Taylor Greene, to engaging in sexually explicit antics in the middle of a theatre full of kids. But of course, it doesn’t end there and frankly, these latest headlines aren’t nearly as surprising.

Evidently, Boebert’s switching the district she will be running in.

Jesse Paul with The Colorado Sun writes:

“U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert announced Wednesday night that she is ditching her reelection bid next year in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District to run instead in the state’s 4th Congressional District, which is on the other side of the state and is far more favorable to Republicans.

Boebert won by just 546 votes last year in the 3rd District, which spans Colorado’s Western Slope into Pueblo and southeastern Colorado. The 4th District is anchored in Douglas County and includes Loveland and the state’s rural Eastern Plains…

…“I did not arrive at this decision easily,” Boebert said in a

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Lauren Elizabeth
Lauren Elizabeth

Written by Lauren Elizabeth

Lauren is a writer & leftist with analysis on topics related to politics & policy. She can be reached at LaurenMartinchek@gmail.com or Twitter @xlauren_mx

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