Anna Stout, who was running in Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert’s previous congressional district, dropped out of the Democratic primary race on Wednesday. Stout, the current mayor of Grand Junction, says her decision was a direct response to Boebert’s switch from Colorado’s 3rd to 4th Congressional District.
Adam Frisch , who lost to Boebert in 2022 by just over 500 votes , is now unopposed in the Democratic primary in Colorado’s Third Congressional District. Several Republicans have announced their intention to seek the Republican nomination there.
“When I entered this race, my objective was to continue my service to the hardworking people of western and southern Colorado and give them a serious homegrown candidate to represent them, rather than the continuous embarrassment we have experienced for the past three years,” Stout said in a statement Wednesday. “Boebert’s decision to run in a different congressional district altered the landscape of this race, I got in this to remove Boebert from office, and while this wasn’t the way I expected to do that, she is no longer the third Congressional District’s problem.”