CNN Calls Rep. Lauren Boebert Re-Election Race, Here Are The Results

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.

In that time, she has emerged as one of the most recognizable, and at times polarizing, faces of the GOP’s MAGA wing, drawing attention from both Democrats and Republicans. Former President Joe Biden, whom she heckled during his 2022 State of the Union address, once billed her as “one of the leaders of this extreme MAGA movement.” The 39-year-old has also been a source of frustration for Republican speakers Kevin McCarthy and Mike Johnson.

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Republican U.S. Rep. Eli Crane will keep his seat in Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District, surviving a challenge from Democratic challenger Jonathan Nez.

The Associated Press called the race on Monday. Crane secured 49.7% of the vote to Nez’s 48.5%, with less than 4,000 votes deciding the race outcome.

Crane, a former U.S. Navy SEAL, was first elected in 2022 to represent the district, which includes Prescott and Flagstaff, and several tribes, including the Navajo Nation, and stretches across most of the state’s northeastern region.

This election was a rematch between Crane, a Trump-endorsed member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, and Nez, a former Navajo Nation president. Crane had beaten Nez by nine percentage points in the 2024 general election.

But headed into the November midterms, Republicans faced a difficult political environment, with voter dissatisfaction over the economy, the cost of living, and U.S. involvement in the Iran war.

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