Donald Trump is trying to save Lauren Boebert’s flailing campaign

Donald Trump has endorsed the anti-LGBTQ+ Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) as she faces an uphill battle in a crowded Republican primary election.

“Congresswoman Lauren Boebert is a Proven Conservative and Effective Leader who delivers for Colorado, and our America First agenda,” Trump wrote with his characteristic capitalization. He wrote that she will “Stand Up to the Radical Democrats who want to Destroy our Beautiful Country.”

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“MY President,” Boebert wrote in sharing the endorsement on X.

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Boebert currently represents Colorado’s mountainous Third Congressional District, but she won her reelection battle in 2022 by a razor-thin margin. Facing numerous scandals and the same Democratic challenger who almost beat her last time, she announced earlier this year that she would run in Colorado’s Fourth Congressional District in the east of the state, dominated by plains but much more conservative — and safer from Democratic challengers — than the Third.

But it means that she has to run in the GOP primary without all the benefits that come with being the incumbent candidate. She has also been accused of district-shopping and called a “carpetbagger” to her face in a GOP debate. In January, a Colorado paper also called out Boebert for appearing to know very little about her new district.

At the second GOP debate in her district, she was “almost entirely ignored,” according to the Colorado Sun. Only one insult was hurled at Boebert on that stage and it came from underdog Chris Phelen who asked the audience, “Are you sick and tired of people that are coming to Congress just to get more social media hits, likes — whatever they’re doing? I am — and that’s what I think that someone up on this stage is doing.”

While Trump is running in Colorado’s presidential primary today, the state’s primary for other offices will be held on June 25.

Boebert got a score of “0” on HRC’s Congressional Scorecard for her first term in Congress, showing her solid opposition to LGBTQ+ equality. She didn’t just vote against LGBTQ+ legislation; she led a press conference in front of Congress to stop the Equality Act – which would add sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of protected classes in federal civil rights law – from passing in 2021 when Congress was voting on it.

She claimed that the law would be used to take children away from their parents if the parents refused to give their kids access to gender-affirming care, something that wasn’t in the bill at all.