Lauren Boebert lost, but she doesn’t want to admit it.
CNN projected Monday that Democrat Eileen Laubacher, a retired Navy rear admiral, defeated Boebert in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District. With 98 percent of ballots counted, Laubacher led 48.8 percent to 47.9 percent — a margin of roughly 3,300 votes.
Boebert’s response? A video on X claiming the race is not over. “The fat lady ain’t sung yet,” she told TMZ.
The Excuse
Boebert says counties have until November 13 to finish counting and curing ballots. She says there are military and overseas votes still coming in. She says declaring victory now is “like icing a cake before it comes out of the oven”.
All of that may be procedurally true. It is also irrelevant. She is losing by thousands of votes. The math does not work. She knows it. Everyone knows it.
But Boebert has never been one to accept reality when denial is an option. She voted against certifying the 2020 election. She pushed Trump’s lies about a stolen election. Now, when she is the one losing, she suddenly wants every vote counted — slowly, carefully, with maximum drama.
The Irony
This is the woman who heckled Joe Biden during the State of the Union. The woman who got kicked out of a Beetlejuice performance for vaping and groping her date. The woman who was accused of punching her ex-husband in a restaurant. The woman who has been a walking controversy for six years.
She switched districts to avoid a tough race. She moved to Colorado’s most Republican seat because she nearly lost the last one by 546 votes . She thought she was safe. She thought the red district would protect her.
It did not. A retired Navy admiral beat her. A Democrat. In a district that Trump won comfortably.
That is the story. Not Boebert’s refusal to concede. Not her “fat lady” jokes. The story is that Lauren Boebert was so unpopular, so polarizing, so exhausting, that even a safe Republican district decided it had had enough.
The Future
Boebert told TMZ that losing might be “liberating.” She said she wants to “offer condolences” to her friends who won. She joked about arm-wrestling a reporter for his job.
The Bottom Line
Lauren Boebert lost her Colorado House seat to Democrat Eileen Laubacher, a retired Navy rear admiral. Boebert refuses to concede, citing uncounted ballots. The margin is roughly 3,300 votes. Counties have until November 13 to finish counting. Boebert’s defeat ends a turbulent six-year tenure in Congress.
My Opinion
Lauren Boebert lost. And she is handling it with all the grace we have come to expect. Which is to say, none.
“The fat lady ain’t sung yet,” she told TMZ, grinning. She lost by thousands of votes to a retired Navy admiral in a district that was supposed to be safe. She lost because she is exhausting. Six years of being the loudest, most embarrassing member of Congress, and Colorado’s 4th District finally had enough.
But Boebert cannot admit that. So she does what she always does. She makes a joke and refuses to concede.
This is the same woman who voted to overturn the 2020 election. The same woman who told her supporters the system was rigged. Now the system is rigged against her, and suddenly she respects the process. Suddenly she wants every vote counted.
It would be funny if it were not so sad. Boebert is not a victim. She is a politician who lost because she was bad at her job. And instead of accepting that, she is doing what she has always done: making noise and refusing to go quietly.
