Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) lost her re-election bid Monday to Democratic opponent Eileen Laubacher.
With more than 99% of ballots counted, Boebert received 47.9% of the vote compared to Laubacher’s 48.8%, according to the Associated Press, which has called the race for Laubacher.
The district, which went for President Trump by 18 points in the 2024 election, was considered solid red heading into the midterms.
Laubacher, who led the incumbent since last week, joined fellow congressional freshmen at the Capitol Monday for an orientation for incoming lawmakers.
A political newcomer, Laubacher is a retired Navy rear admiral and former Republican.
She served as a member of former President Joe Biden’s National Security Council between 2022 and 2024.
Boebert, first-elected in 2020, will leave Congress having served three terms in the House.
The congresswoman is one of more than 30 incumbent Republican House lawmakers voted out of office amid the blue wave midterm, which saw Democrats seize control of both chambers of Congress.
Boebert represented Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District between 2021 and 2025. She nearly lost her 2022 re-election bid, beating Democrat Adam Frisch by less than a percentage point.
In 2024, Boebert ran in the state’s 4th Congressional District where she was re-elected by a comfortable 11 percentage point margin.
A Boebert campaign lawyer alleged “unusual voting patterns” in the congresswoman’s race against Laubacher last week and said he was expecting it to head to a recount.
“Since election night, ballot returns have been trending in Congresswoman Boebert’s direction, consistently lowering the margin under one percentage point,” Scott Gessler, who is also Colorado’s former secretary of state, said in a statement Thursday. “We are investigating some very unusual voting patterns and expect this election to head to a recount, one way or another.”
Boebert, a longtime ally of Trump, was one of four House Republicans who signed a bipartisan discharge petition in November 2025 to force a vote on releasing Justice Department files related to Jeffrey Epstein
The congresswoman also drew Trump’s ire when she campaigned for Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), one of the four House Republicans to sign the Epstein files petition.
“Is anyone interested in running against Weak Minded Lauren Boebert in Colorado’s Fourth Congressional District?” Trump posted on Truth Social in May. “You remember Lauren moved to the District when it became obvious that she couldn’t win in her original Congressional District (The Third!) — A Carpetbagger, indeed!”
Massie lost his GOP primary in May. The other two GOP Epstein files petition signers were Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), who did not see re-election, and former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-Ga.), who resigned from Congress.
“We are the Fearless Four. And none of us are coming back,” Mace posted on X Monday, including an image of herself, Boebert, Massie and Greene in front of the Capitol Building.
“We stood with the Epstein survivors when it was politically toxic. We put the truth and victims first. We paid the price. And I’d do it all over again. No regrets,” Mace continued.
The South Carolina Republican argued, “3 million files are out because we refused to shut up.”
“Fearless doesn’t mean invincible. Fearless means we didn’t flinch.”
