Joe Biden taunts Lauren Boebert with two-word response

Joe Biden taunted Lauren Boebert with a two-word response after being asked why the Republican lawmaker switched congressional seats following his visit to her district last year.

Boebert, a far-right Republican, announced in December that she would be switching districts in Colorado to run in what is considered to be a safer, more conservative seat after a string of scandals over the past year.

The decision came shortly after the president, who she has heavily criticized, visited her district.

“Just a few weeks after you were in Pueblo, Colorado, Congresswoman Boebert left her district. Is that a coincidence or Dark Brandon at work?” a reporter from media outlet, MeidasTouch, asked Mr Biden last week.

“That’s classified,” he quipped in response.

In 2022, Rep Boebert heckled the president during his State of the Union address over the 13 US service members who died in an attack during the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. This happened while Mr Biden was speaking about battlefield conditions that may contribute to veterans’ developing cancer.

Her remark came just before Mr Biden spoke about his son Beau Biden, who served in Iraq and died of brain cancer in 2015.

In 2023, Boebert slammed Biden for his so-called “war on on fossil fuels and his Green New Deal agenda which have cost the great people of Colorado’s 3rd District dearly.”

Her remarks came after Mr Biden referred to her as “one of the leaders of (the) extreme MAGA movement” during a speech in her district.

Ms Boebert previously held what was considered a safe Republican seat in Colorado’s third district, with pollsters FiveThirtyEight predicting that she would win in 2022 by nearly 14 percentage points.

However, she failed to win over voters and defeated