Lauren Boebert narrowly wins reelection in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District after Adam Frisch concedes

  • Bias Rating

    -12% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

    N/AN/A

  • Policy Leaning

    -4% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    96% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Sentiments

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  •   Liberal
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"With this victory and with Republicans in control of the House of Representatives, we can focus on the issues that actually matter most, including getting inflation under control, increasing our domestic energy supply, securing the southern border and being a strong check on the White House, Boebert said in a video posted to Twitter."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"Frisch, who was endorsed by Coram, held out hope that he would pull out a surprise victory, even traveling to Washington, D.C., to attend an orientation for new members of Congress."
Positive
28% Conservative
"Boebert declared victory in the race on Thursday night when it was clear that she would win unless the recount somehow reversed the outcome."
Positive
14% Conservative
"Boebert's campaign spending has been highly scrutinized, as has her husband's high pay as a consultant for the oil and gas industry, which she fiercely supports."
Positive
12% Conservative
"Boebert's margin of victory this year in the GOP stronghold of Mesa County was smaller than it was in 2020."
Positive
10% Conservative
"Frisch said he called Boebert on Friday morning before the briefing with reporters to concede."
Positive
4% Conservative
"The fact that the race between Boebert, a bombastic congresswoman with a national following of both ardent supporters and fierce detractors, and Frisch, a relative newcomer on the big political stage, was so close shocked the Colorado political world given the 3rd District's heavy Republican lean."
Positive
4% Conservative
"Boebert even crushed a primary challenge this year from state Sen. Don Coram, a Montrose Republican, beating him by a whopping 32 percentage points in a further sign of her apparent dominance."
Positive
4% Conservative
"Boebert even crushed a primary challenge this year from state Sen. Don Coram, a Montrose Republican, beating him by a whopping 32 percentage points in a further sign of her apparent dominance."
Positive
4% Conservative
"Boebert raised and spent about $7 million on her reelection bid, compared with the roughly $5 million raised and spent by Frisch, including $715,000 he loaned to his campaign."
Positive
4% Conservative
"More recently, Boebert has advocated for the end of the separation of church and state and called women the lesser or weaker vessel."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"With this victory and with Republicans in control of the House of Representatives, we can focus on the issues that actually matter most, including getting inflation under control, increasing our domestic energy supply, securing the southern border and being a strong check on the White House, Boebert said in a video posted to Twitter."
Positive
0% Conservative
"It's so much closer than anyone anticipated, said state Sen. Kerry Donovan, a Vail Democratic who briefly ran to unseat Boebert this year but ended her candidacy when she was drawn out of the 3rd District during last year's redistricting process."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"It's so much closer than anyone anticipated, said state Sen. Kerry Donovan, a Vail Democratic who briefly ran to unseat Boebert this year but ended her candidacy when she was drawn out of the 3rd District during last year's redistricting process."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"In the days after taking office in January 2021, Boebert backed an effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"Boebert was leading Democrat Adam Frisch, a former Aspen city councilman, by 551 votes on Friday morning when Frisch conceded in a video news conference with reporters."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"In addition to her self-imposed problems, Boebert also faced political headwinds in Colorado this year."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert won reelection in Colorado's GOP-leaning 3rd Congressional District on Friday, barely overcoming voters' forceful rebuke of her highly controversial tenure in Washington over the past two years to help her party expand its slim majority in the U.S. House."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"On election night, the GOP genuinely feared Boebert was likely to be swept out of office."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"Voters in the district backed Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner's unsuccessful reelection bid by 11 percentage points in 2020."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"And former President Donald Trump won the district by 14 percentage points in 2016 even as he lost statewide."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"And Boebert -- whose two years in Washington have been marked by controversy -- nearly exceeded them."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"She also was criticized by her colleagues for tweeting about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's whereabouts during the riot."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"She interrupted President Joe Biden's State of the Union address this year by shouting as he spoke about the death of his son."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"She clashed with Democrats when she insisted it was her right to carry a firearm in the U.S. Capitol complex and after she made an offensive joke about Miesota Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, comparing the Muslim lawmaker to a terrorist."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"As a national GOP figure, she has tied herself to other controversial GOP colleagues like former President Trump and Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, and she has advocated for impeaching President Joe Biden."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"As a national GOP figure, she has tied herself to other controversial GOP colleagues like former President Trump and Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, and she has advocated for impeaching President Joe Biden."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"As a national GOP figure, she has tied herself to other controversial GOP colleagues like former President Trump and Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, and she has advocated for impeaching President Joe Biden."
Negative
-10% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : "With this victory and with Republicans in control of the House of Representatives, we can focus on the issues that actually matter most, including getting inflation under control, increasing our domestic energy supply, securing the southern border and being a strong check on the White House," Boebert said in a video posted to Twitter.

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