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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[–] 46 points 1 day ago (1 child)

Just think how much more time she'll have for handjobs in theaters now!

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  • [–] 16 points 1 day ago

    She can bring her criminal son back to her homeland, Florida.

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    I suppose that's another Trump-induced win in more ways than one.

    https://www.military.com/former-navy-admiral-fired-who-fled-gop-projected-to-flip-colorado-republican-house-seat

    She registered as a Democrat in 2025, according to local publication Colorado Politics. In a 9NEWS debate in October, she said the GOP had become "nearly unrecognizable."

    "I changed my party because my view of what the parties represented changed," she said during the debate.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 day ago

    I’m sure there’s a movie theatre where she can find some handy employment

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago

    Bye Bye boe boe. Excellent news. Congratulations, Representative Laubacher!!

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago

    I love that for her!

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago

    All that political theater must make her feel like a real jerkoff.

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  • 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.

    Ah?

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  • [–] 1 point 23 hours ago

    And it just keeps rolling.

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  • [–] 1 point 23 hours ago

    better start an OF account by giving people HJs.

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  • [–] 0 points 22 hours ago

    I wonder how the 12.6k who voted Libertarian feel about this.

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    [–] 54 points 1 day ago* (11 children)

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

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  • [–] 24 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    How many book deals will we hear about? "My time with Trump and MAGA"

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  • [–] 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 30 points 1 day ago

    This has been me since last week:

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  • [–] 24 points 1 day ago

    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.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I have my money on OnlyFans in her very near future.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 day ago

    how to make congress less indecent with this simple trick

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  • [–] 17 points 1 day ago

    Looks like she'll have to go back to her other job as a movie theater Shake Weight afficionado.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Don't give a handy in public on your way out.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 day ago

    Good riddance hoe bag

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    Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 day ago

    Rip bozo bobo

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago

    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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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

    I guess she'll have to move to another district to run again.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Carpet-baggers gotta carpet-bag.

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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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  • [–] 12 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    What’s everyone bet on whether or not she makes an onlyfans?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago

    One less granny in the house.

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    She rubbed and tugged her way out of a job

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago

    She has a career waiting at Only Fans for the public handy kink though.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    She won't be missed.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago*

    Bye fluffie the ho. That isn't fair really. A ho knows how to be useful in society.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    She was in congress longer than expected. She should feel grateful for the opportunity she had.

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  • [–] 1 point 23 hours ago

    wasn't she one of them jewish space laser people who handed out hand jobs to randoms? woo hoo

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  • [–] 1 point 18 hours ago

    Don't worry, I'm sure her noisy word hole will find a new home over on Faux News. Or maybe CBS more that it's gone to shit.

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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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