Trump-Backed Lauren Boebert Loses Colorado House Race to Democrat Eileen Laubacher

Republican Representative Lauren Boebert has lost her re-election bid in Colorado's fourth congressional district. She was defeated by Democrat Eileen Laubacher by a margin of less than 1 percent, according to the Associated Press.

Boebert, a firebrand conservative and Trump loyalist, served three terms in Congress. The gun-rights advocate's tenure was marred by multiple controversies, the report said.

In a statement, Laubacher said: 'I'm honored by the trust the people of Colorado's fourth district have placed in me. This campaign was never about party labels. It was about putting people first.' She said she would fight just as hard for those who did not vote for her.

The district, which spans Colorado's eastern plains, is one of the state's most conservative seats and has long been a Republican stronghold, making the Democratic win a significant result.

Laubacher is a retired two-star navy rear admiral who was deployed to Afghanistan and later worked on the National Security Council under the Biden administration. She only became a registered Democrat in 2025 and focused her campaign on her decades of military and national security service.

Congratulating Laubacher, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chair Suzan DelBene declared: 'Lauren Boebert's sideshow is over.'

Both candidates moved to the fourth district in recent years. Boebert accused Laubacher of moving there and changing parties in order to run for Congress, while Boebert herself was questioned over her own move to the district in 2024.

Boebert's controversies included decrying the 2020 presidential election as rigged, demanding to carry a handgun on the House floor, and a 2023 incident at a Beetlejuice musical in Denver that was filmed and went viral. She later publicly apologized over that incident.

Just weeks before the election she was also hit by an ethics complaint, which she denied and called 'politically motivated.'

Despite being a MAGA loyalist, Boebert earned Trump's ire by calling for the release of the Epstein files even after the White House tried to persuade her to remove her name from a discharge petition. Trump's first veto of his second term was for a Boebert-sponsored bill funding a drinking water project in district four, which had passed the House and Senate unanimously.