Rep. Lauren Boebert was on a debate stage in Fort Lupton Thursday that featured a slew of other candidates hoping to secure the Republican nomination in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District. The crowded field includes other GOP candidates who are all trying to fill the seat after long-time incumbent Rep. Ken Buck said he’d step down late last year.
Boebert is currently in Congress representing Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District, but after Buck said he was leaving the office she announced she would join the race for his seat. While CD3 primarily covers southern and western Colorado, CD4 is mostly the Eastern Plains, and is a more traditionally conservative district than CD3. Boebert doesn’t live in eastern Colorado but is reportedly moving to Weld County.
During the debate local opponents lobbed accusations of Boebert being a “carpetbagger.” That included state Rep. Mike Lynch from Wellington, who asked “Could you give the definition of ‘carpetbagger?'”