Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold (D) slammed Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) over her decision to switch districts for the 2024 election cycle, calling the move ā€œblatant self-preservation.ā€

Boebert announced Wednesday that she will not seek reelection in the 3rd District and instead move to the 4th District, currently held by retiring Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.).

ā€œShe knows that she has failed the citizens of her district. She has failed to deliver for Coloradans on the western slope on issues that matter to them,ā€ Griswold said in an MSNBC interview. ā€œShe has failed to deliver legislatively. Thereā€™s scandal after scandal after scandal.ā€

ā€œI do think this is her trying to hold on to power,ā€ she added.

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    11 months ago

    However, there is already a crowded field of Republicans running to replace Buck,

    The most important sentence of the article. She can switch districts if she wants. Can she win a primary?

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      I think she does more good for Democrats being in office as she exemplifies the absurdity of the GOP, however any other primary challenger just needs to make ads saying, ā€œshe abandoned her last district; sheā€™ll abandon you too.ā€

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      11 months ago

      Probably not. There are plenty of people running that are as far right as her that donā€™t come with the baggage of being a national embarrassment.

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        Although to the MAGA wing, things that the rest of us consider embarrassments are seen as positives, so who knows anymore?

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          This is sadly very true, but what Iā€™m hearing from the local MAGAts is that they donā€™t like the kind of whore who would do sex stuff on public (with a Democrat, no less). Mostly theyā€™re hypocrites, because if she was a man, theyā€™d say thatā€™s just how men are. I find a mashing a dudeā€™s dick around to be one of the least offensive things sheā€™s done except for the whole ā€œin public around people who didnā€™t consent to see thatā€ part, but Iā€™m also not a conservative so šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø