Retiring Guy's Digest: Flipping the House and flipping off Trump: Democrat Eileen Laubacher defeats 3-term Republican incumbent Lauren Boebert and flips Colorado 4th congressional district

Saturday, November 14, 2026

Flipping the House and flipping off Trump: Democrat Eileen Laubacher defeats 3-term Republican incumbent Lauren Boebert and flips Colorado 4th congressional district

It's a happy day for Colorado. Lauren Boebert, its state embarrassment, was defeated in her effort to win a 4th (!!!!) term in Congress. What the hell took you so long, Colorado voters?

Boebert represented the 3rd CD during her first two terms in Congress, but chose to run in a different, more conservative district in 2024 to avoid getting her butt kicked. Or so she feared. Running for the first time in the 4th CD, she defeated her Democratic opponent by 9 points. Two years later, she came up a percentage point short, thanks to a blue wave that even swept over a very conservative Colorado district.

Election results map: Ballotpedia

Headline: The Denver Post, 11/13/2026

Nick Coltrain report:

Boebert has not conceded the race and her campaign did not respond to a request for comment after the AP named her opponent the winner.
In a social media video posted Monday, Boebert said, “We’ll make sure every eligible vote is counted and that every single voice is heard before we take any next steps.”
Scott Gessler, an attorney for Boebert’s campaign, said in a statement last week that her campaign staff was “fighting for every vote.” He said, without citing specifics, that the campaign was “investigating some very unusual voting patterns and expect this election to head to a recount, one way or another.”
Boebert, in her video to supporters, did not raise any claims of voting irregularities.

The 6/30/2026 primary results gave no indication that an upset was in the making. Boebert received nearly 20,000 more votes than the two Democratic candidates. Obviously, a lot of people shifted their point of view during the 4-month gap between the Colorado primary and U.S. general elections.