Boebert lost her seat in the U.S. House of Representatives for Colorado’s 4th Congressional District six years after she was first elected

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• Lauren Boebert lost her bid for reelection in Colorado on Nov. 13, six years after she was first elected to Congress in 2020
• She moved from Colorado’s 3rd District to the more conservative 4th District after a narrow 2022 victory
• Boebert previously rejected early calls that she lost her race to Laubacher, insisting, “We have thousands of ballots that are being cured”

Rep. Lauren Boebert officially lost her bid for reelection in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District.

Boebert, 39, lost the election to her Democratic opponent, Eileen Laubacher, the Associated Press declared on Friday, Nov. 13. Boebert earned 47.9% of the vote with 184,047 votes, while Laubacher earned 48.8% of the vote with 187,488 votes.

Her loss comes days after Boebert reacted to a CNN projection that she would lose her race, telling TMZ on Monday, Nov. 10, “The fat lady ain’t sung yet.”

“We have thousands of ballots that are being cured. Those are rejected ballots and those are being cured and they’ll be counted Friday,” she said at the time, adding that military and overseas ballots were also being counted.

“If it changes the outcome it changes the outcome, and if not we’ll accept that decision,” she added.

Meanwhile, Laubacher had already declared victory in the race on Monday. She told The Denver Post that day, “The way we won this race is the way I intend to continue serving the people, which is going everywhere, talking a little bit and listening a lot.”

Laubacher added, “It’s up to me to now deliver for people and make the changes that are going to improve their lives.”

Boebert was first elected to Congress in 2020 after she defeated five-term incumbent Scott Tipton in the primary election. With her victory, she became the first primary challenger in Colorado to oust a sitting U.S. representative in nearly five decades.

She went on to win the general election when she defeated Democratic challenger and former state representative Diane Mitsch Bush.

Boebert secured a very close win in Colorado’s 3rd District in 2022 — earning only 546 more votes than her challenger, Adam Frisch — before shifting to Colorado’s more conservative 4th District in 2024, where she won again, defeating Democratic nominee Trisha Calvarese, a former speechwriter for the AFL-CIO.

Boebert has made a name for herself as one of the most controversial members of Congress during her time in the House of Representatives, and has emerged as a prominent member of the right-wing House Freedom Caucus.

A large part of Boebert’s public persona has been her record as an outspoken gun rights advocate. The congresswoman once refused to let Capitol police search her bag after she set off metal detectors, and she operated a restaurant called Shooter’s Grill where she encouraged servers to openly carry guns while at work.

She has also openly feuded with Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, making racist comments about the Muslim lawmaker, accusing her of “praising terrorists” and calling her a member of “the jihad squad.”

In 2023, Boebert made national headlines when she was escorted from a performance of the musical Beetlejuice in Denver after allegedly causing a “disturbance” while vaping and recording on her phone.

Boebert was once again at the center of controversy earlier this year, when she was accused of engaging in sexual relationships with three of her staffers and paying one of them $200,000 not to file an ethics complaint.

A complaint filed with the House Committee on Sept. 17 alleged that Boebert violated the House rule prohibiting members from having sexual relationships with their own staff.

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At the time, a spokesperson for Boebert denied the allegations in a statement shared with PEOPLE, calling them “baseless.”

“Congresswoman Lauren Boebert rejects these allegations as utterly false and there is no truth to them whatsoever,” the spokesperson said. “This is nothing more than a politically motivated stunt designed to manipulate the ethics process, create headlines, smear her, and generate clickbait.”

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