Boebert rolls the dice: Controversial congresswoman SWITCHES election run from Colorado’s 3rd District to the Republican stronghold 4th – amid fierce fight with her Democratic rival

Conservative firebrand Lauren Boebert announced Wednesday she is flipping the district in the 2024 election after she narrowly won re-election in 2022 by just 546 votes.

Boebert, a 37-year-old grandmother and mother of four sons, said she had made the decision to continue the fight against “the socialists and communists who have taken over our country.”

She said she was personally sent “dark money” to “steal this place.”

And she said it was a new beginning after her divorce and “personal mistakes.”

Boebert made headlines over the summer after she was caught on camera looking for a date, smoking cigarettes and taking selfies at a performance of the musical “Beetlejuice” in Denver, then pointing the finger at conductors when she was asked to leave and declaring, “You do you know who I am?’ She also sparked controversy by criticizing Joe Biden in his 2022 State of the Union address and sparked anger by making an Islamophobic joke about Minnesota’s Ilhan Omar.

Boebert announced the redistricting in a Facebook video posted Wednesday, saying, “I didn’t come to this decision lightly.

Lauren Boebert announced Wednesday that she will not run in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District, which she narrowly won in 2022. She will instead move to Colorado’s 4th Congressional District.

Boebert is pictured with Donald Trump in February 2022. She remains a staunch supporter of the former president.

“Many prayers, many difficult conversations and many perspectives have convinced me that this is the best way to continue to fight for Colorado, for the conservative movement and for the future of my children.”

She said the Hollywood elite, Aspen financiers and George Soros, who tried to stop her, could “go and pound sand.”

This decision significantly increases her chances of re-election.

The Third District tilts 9 percentage points in favor of the Republicans. Colorado Sun reported — while the 4th District leans GOP by 27 points, according to a nonpartisan analysis of election results from 2016 to 2020 by Colorado Legislative staff.

The newspaper reports she is struggling to raise funds for her re-election bid in the 3rd District, and Republican donors in western Colorado have lost enthusiasm for her fiery pro-Trump policies.

Boebert’s decision is good news for the GOP, which feared she would lose. That doesn’t mean the 3rd District will vote for a Democrat—the district hasn’t sent a Democrat to Congress since 2008—but it does mean a more moderate Republican could fill the seat.

Boebert said Wednesday she will move her family to the 4th District, although she doesn’t have to do so to qualify for the program.

She currently lives in Garfield County, near the town of Sylt, hundreds of miles from the 4th District borders.

The Fourth District covers the entire eastern border of Colorado and all territory east of Denver, extending from Oklahoma in the south to Nebraska in the north and east to Kansas.

The Third District, by contrast, stretched along the state’s western border, encompassing the wealthy mountain towns of Aspen and Telluride.

The Fourth District is currently represented by Ken Buck, but Buck announced in November that he would not seek re-election in 2024.

Buck, 64, said he considers himself a conservative, supporting Ronald Reagan, and committed to individual freedom and economic freedom. He said he was resigning partly out of dismay at his colleagues’ refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election and partly because there was nothing more Congress could do.

Boebert is far from the only Republican seeking to replace Buck, but her $1.4 million war chest will certainly help her campaign.

She faces competition from conservative radio host Deborah Flora; former state senators Jerry Sonnenberg and Ted Harvey; and State Representative Richard Holtorf.