Lauren Boebert Facing Off Against Republican Opponents In Colorado Primary

One of the most notorious Republicans in Congress faces a crowded primary election on Tuesday.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) is running against five other Republicans in Colorado’s 4th District.

It’s not her district — Boebert currently represents Colorado’s 3rd — but she’s making the switch rather than face a rematch against Adam Frisch, the Democratic challenger who came surprisingly close to beating her in 2022 . Boebert said she’d run in the 4th District, which leans more Republican than her own, after former Rep. Ken Buck ® announced his retirement.

In her first term in Congress, Boebert drew attention with a streak of inflammatory antics, such as vowing to tote a handgun around Washington, calling a Muslim colleague a terrorist and heckling President Joe Biden with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) during the 2022 State of the Union address. Frisch labeled Boebert a purveyor of “ angertainment .”

In her second term, Boebert clashed with Greene after the two introduced rival impeachment resolutions against Biden in June 2023. Greene told reporters Boebert “basically copied my articles,” which Boebert denied.

“I’m not in middle school,” Boebert told HuffPost at the time.

That evening, Greene called Boebert “a little bitch” during a confrontation on the House floor, a breach of decorum that contributed to Greene’s ouster from the right-wing House Freedom Caucus the following month.

Boebert committed her own breach of decorum months later when she was escorted out of a Denver theater in September after vaping and carrying on with a date during a performance of the “Beetlejuice” musical.

This year, Boebert has seemingly tried to distinguish herself from Greene. During a House Oversight Committee hearing that