Retired Rear Adm. Eileen Laubacher, a Democrat, will flip Colorado’s 4th District, CNN’s Decision Desk projects, ending conservative firebrand Rep. Lauren Boebert’s tenure in Congress.

Boebert’s loss comes after she elected to run in a more conservative district last cycle in an effort to preserve her political future. But Laubacher, who served more than three decades in the Navy, capitalized on the national headwinds against the GOP and focused her campaign on affordability issues.

The win denies Boebert, an ally of President Donald Trump and one of the most outspoken conservatives in the House Republican conference, a fourth term. Boebert was first elected in 2020, after she upset a fifth-term Republican incumbent in a primary.

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    Good riddance. She has been politician for far too long. Maybe she should try to get a real job and work for her money.

    But she probably will get a well paid low effort job with some joint that she made politics for.

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    Trump endorsed Boebert days before the election, praising her in a Truth Social post as a “MAGA Warrior, who has been with us from the very beginning.”

    She drew the president’s ire earlier this year when she campaigned with one of his most vocal Republican critics…prompt(ing) Trump to call her “dumb” and “weak-minded” and he threatened to withdraw his endorsement.

    You love to see it

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        You go on combative and aggressive prescriptivist tirades multiple times a week here, yet you barf out a sentence like this? “Gonna” isn’t a word. You should only say “Carpet-baggers are going to carpet-bag.” Otherwise you are simply incorrect. I don’t make the rules, you do.

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    Unfortunately all these popular dipshits have a long career in the media after losing and election

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      My hope is that with an unusually high number of Republican elected officials losing their jobs, that the market will be flooded and most of them will struggle to find jobs typically available to former elected officials. Especially the really dumb ones that made enemies in their own party. Is a lobbying firm, media organization, public relations firm, or anything like that actually going to perceive any value in hiring someone like this?

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        She is an attention whore, so media like FOX probably thinks that makes for good ratings. Sadly I bet there’s still plenty of jobs for these assholes.

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        if it’s a coloring book, it’ll be on the NY Times Best Seller list in no time flat.

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          They’d have to sell it at Walmart. No way any of those people walk into an actual bookstore. Them is woke propaganda whearhouses.

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            They also do weird money laundering shit with these book deals. Like how to move PAC money for bribing purposes. As a result, the sales of the book put it on the best seller lists even though no one is actually reading it.

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    Don’t worry honey… there’s always hand jobs at kid’s matinees to fall back on.

    Or you back to fall back on. You know… roots.