CO-03: Why Lauren Boebert's House Race May Be the Most Closely-Watched of 2024
Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado has been in the national spotlight ever since she unseated a member of Congress in 2020. After nearly losing re-election in what was considered a safe Republican seat in 2022, the MAGA firebrand's 2024 bid was already near the top of races drawing outsized attention. And that was before she got caught on tape vaping and groping her date at a local performance of Beetlejuice.
Since news of the scandal broke in September, the race has only gotten more dramatic. Democratic frontrunner Adam Frisch, the candidate who nearly defeated Boebert in the midterms, has continued to raise eye-popping sums. Yet it’s not clear he will get to face off against Boebert again, as her most formidable Republican challenger, attorney Jeff Hurd, has racked up endorsements in recent months. Even President Joe Biden, whose State of the Union address Boebert once heckled, has gotten involved, stopping by the district in November for a campaign event and mocking her voting record.
It’s all setting the stage for Colorado’s Third District to be perhaps the most closely-watched House race of 2024, as voters in the district and around the country watch how the money and time the players have poured into the race pays off.
No one may be more ready to see how it pays off than Frisch, who has now been traversing the district for years and tells TIME that he’s seldom home more than five days a month. In 2022, Frisch came within 546 votes of defeating Boebert. This cycle, polls have shown the two once again deadlocked. He has raised more than any non-incumbent running for the House, and indeed, more than any member of the House besides former Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, according to FEC data. Frisch is likely to make national news again when he reports his year-end fundraising numbers in January.
https://time.com/6550037/lauren-boebert-election-theater-beetlejuice/
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