US Midterms 2026
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Lauren Boebert, a Republican who has represented Colorado's 4th congressional district since 2025 after representing the 3rd district from 2021 to 2025, faces Democrat Eileen Laubacher, a retired Navy rear admiral, in 2026.
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Rep. Lauren Boebert shared a video on X from Speaker Mike Johnson, who described the upcoming election as a contrast between “common sense and crazy” and said Boebert is on the side of common sense.
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Baisley highlighted Trump accounts as a check on Social Security solvency while Hickenlooper said we can’t wait decades for solutions and higher earners need to pay more.
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Lauren Boebert was born Lauren Opal Roberts on December 19, 1986, in Altamonte Springs, Florida. During her childhood her family moved between Florida and Colorado, later living in the Montbello neighborhood of Denver and in Aurora before settling in Rifle, Colorado, in 2003.
She dropped out of high school during her senior year in 2004 when she had a baby, and she earned a GED certificate in 2020.
After leaving school she took a job as an assistant manager at a McDonald's in Rifle, and after marrying Jayson Boebert in 2007 she worked for a natural gas drilling company and then as a pipeliner.
In 2013, Lauren Boebert and her husband opened Shooters Grill, a restaurant in Rifle where staff members were encouraged to carry firearms openly; it closed in July 2022.
In 2020 she challenged five-term Representative Scott Tipton in the Republican primary for Colorado's 3rd congressional district and won the nomination on June 30, 2020, with 54.6% of the vote to Tipton's 45.4%, becoming the first primary challenger to defeat a sitting U.S. representative in Colorado in 48 years.
She then defeated Democratic former state representative Diane Mitsch Bush in the general election, 51.27% to 45.41%.
In Congress, Boebert has associated herself with the Republican Study Committee, the Freedom Caucus, of which she became communications chair in January 2022, and the Second Amendment Caucus. She was reelected in 2022 by a margin of 546 votes over former Aspen City Council member Adam Frisch. In 2024 she switched to Colorado's 4th congressional district and won a third term with 53.6% of the vote.
Lauren Boebert is seeking reelection in Colorado's 4th congressional district, which encompasses the rural Eastern Plains and the southern Denver exurbs, including Castle Rock and Parker. She received 100.0% of the vote in the 2026 Republican primary.
On September 17, 2026, an ethics complaint accusing her of sexual affairs with three of her staffers was submitted to the House Ethics Committee, and Boebert has denied the allegations.
In the general election on November 3, 2026, she faces Democrat Eileen Laubacher, a retired United States Navy rear admiral and former U.S. National Security Council director.
