Lauren Boebert’s fundraising nosedives as voters accuse her of cowardice & carpetbagging

Rep. Lauren Boebert’s (R-CO) decision to switch districts for the upcoming election continues to backfire – this time financially.

The anti-LGBTQ+ representative has been criticized as a carpetbagger for fleeing her district when it became apparent she was likely going to lose, and now Boebert has reportedly had her worst fundraising quarter in years.

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Boebert raised about $462,000 during the first three months of the year, according to Insider, compared to $764,000 during the first quarter of last year and $540,000 in the final quarter of 2023. She also raised between $800,000 and $1 million in multiple quarters throughout 2021 and 2022, meaning she is now raising less than half of what she did at her peak.

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She did, however, score a $400 donation from disgraced out former House Rep. George Santos (R), who called her “by far one of the hardest-working members on Capitol Hill… while struggling to navigate the challenges of life.”

“Is she perfect? No, and neither are you,” he told the New York Post. “I support strong conservative women like Lauren and I’m proud to do so.” Santos was expelled from Congress in December 2023 after he was found to have lied about his entire life and possibly committed campaign finance fraud during his election campaign. He also faces 23 federal criminal counts related to various alleged scams to enrich himself. 

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 — including a rocky public divorce and an allegedly criminal son — 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.

She has since been accused of district-shopping and was 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. Another columnist recently called Boebert an embarrassment to “herself, her family, her constituents, and her state,” calling her a snake oil saleswoman and accusing her of trying to “fleece” the inhabitants of her new district.

Boebert’s time in Congress has been riddled with scandal, including when she was kicked out of a theater where children were present for allegedly groping a man’s genitals during the show.

She also recently slammed the $1.2 trillion federal spending bill signed last March by President Joe Biden because it did not take away enough rights from LGBTQ+ people. Boebert got a score of “0” on HRC’s Congressional Scorecard for her first term in Congress, showing her solid opposition to LGBTQ+ equality.