Congresswoman Lauren Boebert of Colorados Third Congressional District makes a campaign stop at Wild Beaver Mountain Man Emporium on October 4, 2022 in Creede, Colorado.
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Democratic candidate Adam Frisch announced Friday that he conceded the race for certainly one of Colorado’s congressional seats to incumbent Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert, giving the GOP one other vote within the U.S. House.
Boebert’s win, which hasn’t been called by NBC yet, is by the narrowest of margins. She leads Frisch by just over 500 votes, or 0.2 percentage points, with 99% of the vote in as of Friday.
Boebert confirmed his concession in a tweet, saying she looked forward to moving on from the election.
Boebert, who heckled President Joe Biden through the State of the Union speech earlier this 12 months, was leading in a lot of the few public polls going into Election Day.
A darling of former President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement, Boebert was one of the 147 congressional Republicans who challenged the outcomes of the 2020 presidential election after the Jan. 6 riot on Capitol Hill. She is a member of the conservative Republican Study Committee.
Boebert trailed Frisch, a former member of the Aspen City Council, in fundraising through the third quarter. Frisch raised greater than $1 million and Boebert raised $936,000 over the three months ended Sept. 30, Federal Election Commission filings show. In October alone, Frisch raised greater than $886,000 while Boebert brought in greater than $373,000, federal campaign finance records show. Frisch’s campaign got here into the ultimate weeks of the midterms with $743,000 readily available, records show, to Boebert’s $613,000.
Boebert’s tenure in Congress has been marked with controversy. The FEC pressed Boebert last 12 months to elucidate the apparent personal use of hundreds of dollars in campaign funds.
A letter from the FEC to the treasurer of Boebert’s 2022 reelection campaign inquired about 4 Venmo payments totaling greater than $6,000.
FEC filings show the payments got here last 12 months for what’s described on the forms as “personal expense of Lauren Boebert billed to campaign account in error.” The filings then note that the “expense has been reimbursed.”
A spokesman for Boebert told CNBC on the time that the non-public expenses were already reimbursed but didn’t say what the payments were for.
