Lauren Boebert Refuses to Accept Likely Loss in Congressional Race: ‘The Fat Lady Ain’t Sung Yet’
Lauren Boebert Refuses to Accept Likely Loss in Congressional Race: ‘The Fat Lady Ain’t Sung Yet’
Greta BjornsonTue, November 10, 2026 at 9:10 PM UTC
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Rep. Lauren Boebert on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on July 22, 2024Credit: CHRIS KLEPONIS/AFP via Getty -
Rep. Lauren Boebert said she will not accept “premature” calls that she lost her congressional race
Boebert ran against Democratic opponent Eileen Laubacher to represent Colorado’s 4th District in the House
“We have thousands of ballots that are being cured. Those are rejected ballots and those are being cured and they’ll be counted Friday,” Boebert said
Rep. Lauren Boebert is not ready to accept defeat in her congressional race.
The Colorado Republican, 39, is currently trailing her Democratic opponent Eileen Laubacher in a close race, with the reporting as of publication time that Boebert has 47.9% of the vote to Laubacher’s 48.8%, with 98% of votes counted.
Still, Boebert was adamant that the race is not yet over, telling TMZ on Monday, Nov. 10, after CNN projected that she would lose her race, “The fat lady ain’t sung yet.”
“We have thousands of ballots that are being cured. Those are rejected ballots and those are being cured and they’ll be counted Friday,” she told TMZ, adding that military and overseas ballots are also being counted.
“If it changes the outcome it changes the outcome, and if not we’ll accept that decision,” she said.
Boebert also posted a video to X on Monday, which she captioned, “Election week isn’t finished! Let’s finish counting every vote and hearing every voice before declaring anything.”
In the video, the congresswoman accused “CNN and the Democrats” of wanting to call her race and “prematurely declare victory.” Boebert said that counties in Colorado have until Friday, Nov. 13, to finish counting their votes.
“Declaring victory now is like icing a cake before it comes out of the oven,” she said.
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Although all of the votes in Boebert’s race have not yet been counted, the vote margin in the race is firmly outside the threshold for an automatic recount; Colorado law mandates a recount if the margin is within 0.5% of the leading candidate’s vote total.
Laubacher declared victory in the race on Monday. She told The Denver Post, “The way we won this race is the way I intend to continue serving the people, which is going everywhere, talking a little bit and listening a lot.”
She added, “It’s up to me to now deliver for people and make the changes that are going to improve their lives.”
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Boebert was first elected to Congress in 2020 after she defeated five-term incumbent Scott Tipton in the primary election. She went on to win the general election when she defeated Democratic challenger Diane Mitsch Bush.
Boebert secured a very close win in Colorado’s 3rd District in 2022 — earning only 546 more votes than her challenger, Adam Frisch — before shifting to Colorado’s more conservative 4th District in 2024, where she defeated Democratic nominee Trisha Calvarese.
Boebert, an outspoken gun rights advocate, made a name for herself as one of the most controversial members of Congress during her time in the House of Representatives, and emerged as a prominent member of the right-wing House Freedom Caucus.
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