Lauren Boebert blames everything but herself as midterms defeat looms

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MAGA Colorado congresswoman, who looks set to lose her House seat to Democratic challenger Eileen Laubacher, offers surprising excuse as she blames likely loss on ‘many different variables’

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Colorado Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert, who appears to be in real danger of losing her seat as midterms ballot-counting continues in her district, has argued that the electorate was “played by the markets.”

As it stands Friday morning, Democrat Eileen Laubacher is narrowly ahead in the too-close-to-call fight for Colorado’s 4th congressional district with 186,218 votes, or 48.79 percent, with Boebert in second on 182,856, or 47.91 percent. An outcome is expected later today.

Interviewed by NewsNation’s Blake Burman late Thursday, the three-term MAGA congresswoman, 39, said that if she ultimately goes on to lose to Laubacher, 58, a retired Navy rear admiral, it would not be down to any one factor.

“There are so many different variables, and I’m going to start with policy,” she told Burman.

“I’m a member of the House Freedom Caucus, and we were the ones that were having these floor debates when bad bills would come to the floor or deals that were promised weren’t followed through with.

“We were fighting on FISA to have warrants for surveilling American citizens,” she said, invoking the congressional debate over Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and its enabling spying.

“We wanted fair elections, and there’s so much that we just weren’t heard on. We wanted to ban insider trading for members of Congress.”

Boebert went on to describe last week’s catastrophic results for Republicans – which saw their rival Democrats reclaim the majorities in the House of Representatives and Senate with a stunning series of wins from Michigan to Kansas, Texas and Mississippi – as “absolutely a cry that the American people do not want corruption from anyone, any time.”

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