‘There’s a lot of people here who don’t like Boebert’: Get ready for a seriously messy primary

Colorado’s congresssional primaries could end up bringing about the downfall of one of the US’s most scandal-plagued members of the House of Representatives: Lauren Boebert.

If it doesn’t it will be because, as one of her opponents put it, there were too many horses in the race.

Voters will decide the fate of Boebert and other races across the state on Tuesday, June 25. One way or another, they make their judgement on the long, strange road the far-right Republican congresswoman has taken since her 2022 defeat, after which she became further embroiled in scandals and fled her district.

She’s now running in the fourth congressional district — across the state from the third district, which she represented for what will be two terms at the end of this year. Her flight from the third came as she was due to face her competitive 2022 challenger, Adam Frisch, in a rematch this November — a race she won by less than 600 votes last time around.

The fourth district is in a unique position this year. Left vacant by the departure of Ken Buck, one of the more conservative members of the House, there was a special election for the seat in March. Boebert chose not to run, focusing instead on her primary campaign.

Her move across the state has not been an easy one. She remains hounded by the scandals which have dominated headlines for months: a messy separation with a husband that led to an embarassingly public incident, as well as her unglamorous removal from a theater performance of Beetlejuice after she and her date were caught vaping and engaging in lewd acts. With her move to the new district, these problems compounded with a new one: an accusation of carpet-bagging.

With no ties to the fourth district to speak of, Boebert now