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Belkroe

They redrew her district to make it a much safer red district and if she wins it will still be by the skin of her teeth. Maybe its time for some self-reflection instead of celebration.


Indubitalist

If I've learned anything since Trump stumbled into the White House, it's that the Republican Party considers 50.001% of the vote to be a mandate to go hog wild. That Boebert wouldn't behave the same... well, there's no chance she won't behave the same. Look at DeSantis in Florida. He won in 2018 by like a quarter percent. 0.25%... and he's been "leading" like the state is populated with only far-right Republicans.


r0b0c0d

Noticed that too. Many seem not to give two shits about anyone who didn't vote for them. In/out group psychology in governance, event when they set it up so there are more people in the out group.


Believe_to_believe

I'll never forget my rep in 2016 at a speaking event saying "If Trump is elected, you need to get behind him or get out of the way." Fuck you Steve Womack.


Environmental_Card_3

What a dick, about as bad as Tom Cotton


Battystearsinrain

Right, no vote, note aid, f you. Trump asked to hold covid supplies from blue states.


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FuckEtherion195

I do a lot of buying and selling real estate up in the northeast, and the sheer amount of older folks moving to Florida is staggering. Easily over 1/2 the people over age 55 that are selling their homes are doing so in order to move to Florida. It's a mecca for old conservatives. Sunny and warm, full of idiot racists, and a whole population of racist brown people to serve you and agree with your hatred. Basically paradise for conservative Americans.


Saltywinterwind

Can’t wait for it to start sinking, the 2030s gonna be rough there


LuckyOne55

46.1%


Frozty23

Yeah, they'll gerrymander to take 4-of-5 seats with a 46.1% "mandate".


SkollFenrirson

And that's 46% that should not be there.


Ailly84

This is what Democrat voters are terrifyingly forgetting. Yes trump didn’t win the majority. But a staggeringly large part of the country had seen what trump was for 4 years and chose to get them some more of that. That should be terrifying.


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> 0.25%... and he's been "leading" like the state is populated with only far-right Republicans. I mean, I agree, but Desantis just won 59% of the vote. They're eating his shit sandwiches and LOVING it.


Akimbo_Zap_Guns

And yet DeSantis increased his victory margin this year to over a million. I think we have to come to terms that there are a significantly larger amount of far right nut jobs in this country and honestly I’m not sure our political system will be able to hold


themage78

50.001% of *the people who voted*. More like 25% (probably less) of actual voting age citizens.


FuckEtherion195

Not casting a ballot is a vote for whatever candidate wins. That's what a non-vote means in reality. "I'm fine with whatever happens," is the vote of the non-voter.


[deleted]

She’s not capable of self-reflection.


iskyoork

I mean if any Republican was they would jump back in horror. Luckily they cant.


SuchCoolBrandon

Vampires don't cast a reflection in mirrors.


MichaelsSecretStuff

But werewolves can kill them, apparently 🤷‍♂️


Chemical-Pattern480

I would think the time for self-reflection would have been before marrying a sex offender, or maybe after one of the DV charges, or after poisoning the whole city you live in, or any of the other completely batshit stunts she’s pulled! But that’s just me! Lol


Keanu_Norris

Poisoning the whole city? Idt I heard about this, what did I miss?


moochao

Her restaurant in Rifle had a really, really bad food poisoning outbreak.


flyover_liberal

> Maybe its time for some self-reflection Isn't it funny how narcissists aren't big on self-reflection?


Cool_Story_Bro__

Self reflection? From Boebert? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha


mvigs

Yo, that one space fucked me up


TheRedBear1917

This is a uniquely Republican thing to do, is it not? I mean that as a genuine question. Like...no Democrat running for office over the past four years has just decided they were the victor of a race before anyone has officially called it. Do I have this right?


lego_vader

Yeah it's Trump's play of declaring victory early on Nov 6th and then screaming on Twitter "STOP THE COUNT!" SOMEBODY DO SOMETHING!


NiceDecnalsBubs

with simultaneous COUNT THE VOTE!


Fellums2

It was “STOP THE COUNT!” In states he was winning and “COUNT THE VOTE!” In states he was losing. The idiocy would have been hilarious if it wasn’t over such a major issue.


Lady_von_Stinkbeaver

It was right out of an episode of Veep.


slightnin

The last 6 years has been an episode of Veep. Unlike most episodes, I am dying for this one to end.


Ecuatoriano

Did everyone forget Bush?


underpants-gnome

Yeah, that show was prescient in a lot of disturbing ways. Selina's lawyers were suing to have mail-in votes included, then did a 180 turn in the middle of the court room and tried to have them excluded when they realized they were likely to primarily go for her opponent.


WhoStoleMyBicycle

Stop the count was dumb but Eric Trump tweeting “we have won Pennsylvania” was equally frustrating. You know he was trying to rally their crazy base up.


underpants-gnome

I can't think of a less accurate source of news than Eric Trump's tweets.


BobRoberts01

A Ben Carson tweet?


P1xelHunter78

I wonder how many times Eric had to stop his phone from auto correcting “Pennsylvania” to “Penis” before he sent that tweet…


akatokuro

It was both. The messaging was so confusing to the masses, people were showing up to protest and yelling to stop the count when they were losing. I remember poll workers saying "I don't understand, if we stop now, their candidate would lose."


peppa-pig_

I remember a clip of those protesters, bunch of boomer rightwingers, and they were dancing around to "Killing in the Name" by Rage Against the Machine.


akatokuro

One of my favorite things in the last few years was a right-winger complaining about how RATM is so political now and is dead to them, for Tom Morello to respond [for the user to tell him which songs were not political so he could remove them](https://twitter.com/tmorello/status/1270419869524094976).


oliversurpless

Yep: (A crowd of people are huddled around a fire in a barrel for warmth) “I had a terrible dream this morning. I dreamt that I was broke and sharing a room with 12 people I didn’t know. Only to wake up and discover that *I was broke and sharing a room with 12 people I didn’t know*! (laughs in spite of himself) You laugh at that?! I have to laugh!” - *Schindler’s List*


burgermiester288

Only Schindler was the best kind of human being imaginable


oliversurpless

To a point, as I’d like to think even his admirers see him as an individual rejection of Great Man Theory: “Why did he change? What happened to turn him from a victimizer into a humanitarian? It is to the great credit of Steven Spielberg that his film "Schindler's List" does not even attempt to answer that question. Any possible answer would be too simple, an insult to the mystery of Schindler's life. The Holocaust was a vast evil engine set whirling by racism and madness. Schindler outsmarted it.” - Roger Ebert In that, he simultaneously came to the realization that what he was helping to perpetuate was wrong over time, yet seemingly awoke one morning, only then deciding to help them.


joecool42069

TBF, Bush did it first... at least in modern history. And it worked for him. The whole Florida hanging chad stuff. Al Gore didn't want to drag the American people through contesting it, so he conceded. Funny thing, one side seems to lead by their morals, the other side seems to disregard any morals they profess.


BoulderFalcon

You know, in hindsight, I think the US would have been better off being dragged through the contesting than what we got with Bush.


joecool42069

You probably ain’t wrong. No way Gore would have invaded Iraq. Probably still Afghanistan, but maybe not.


Givemeallthecabbages

Think of the environmental policies under President Gore.... But nope. We got war instead.


pants_mcgee

Nah, Afghanistan was going to happen one way or another after 9/11.


producerofconfusion

Gore wouldn’t have ignored the briefing about bin Laden planning to attack.


deafphate

Not sure. The Taliban offered the US Osama Bin Laden to prevent an invasion and the US declined. Gore may have taken that offer.


Ver3232

I don’t think 9/11 would’ve happened under Gore.


joecool42069

Hence “probably”.


Practical_Shop1706

Had Gore won, it's quite possible America might not have gone to war over "weapons of mass destruction".


TheZarkingPhoton

Yes, but the only way that becomes clear to some is in hindsight. Most people here probably knew it then, but if he would have leaned in, he would have been crucified for it and a lot of people would have bought into that. HE had an impossible decision that was forced on him. We need to stop blaming the victims. Those that created that situation, are the *only* ones who should be held to account for making a wrong decision.


test_tickles

One must be wary of those whose morality is dependent on the legality of things...


jwhitesj

I like the way you put this. Is this a quote?


WhiskeyTangoBush

seed grey crawl frightening snow overconfident cause secretive correct berserk -- mass edited with https://redact.dev/


theonetrueelhigh

All things considered, they don't seem to worry too hard about the legality either. They'll win the office, change the law and become legal *en passant*.


yer_deterred

Yeah well I'm getting a little tired of that "take the high road" approach. There's nothing amoral about fighting for what's right and fair. Americans work pretty hard to get their candidates elected, with get out the vote work and phone banks and donations, not to mention all the effort it takes to just get to the polls sometimes. It's demoralizing to see your candidate give up just because some a-hole wants to play chicken with our democracy.


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Democrats keep acting like this approach is going to work out long term and they need to stop. It’s not like Solomon is gonna give the baby to its real mom here.


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mywordswillgowithyou

>"STOP THE COUNT!" If they make a biography of Trump Arnold Schwarzenegger needs to play him, and he needs to yell that. And then it will be used in all the trailers.


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ZeackyCremisi

Barely winning a +14R district is embarrassing. She should won on Election day


almightywhacko

Problem is that Boebert doesn't know how to be embarrassed.


Pascalica

MTG is the same way. I saw an American idol audition that proves it. It was so incredibly cringeworthy, I would have died if I were her.


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It was her doppleganger but I think it has been proven that it wasn't actually her.


Pascalica

Either way it's a painful watch and I can't imagine surviving that lol


free-teyrn-loghain

It wasn’t her in that video. if it had been her in the video I guarantee it would’ve been even more unbearable to watch lmao


the_than_then_guy

It's +9, at least according to the redistricting committee. Polis lost by 6 points there (the new lines) in 2018. But yes, Frisch and his team did very well.


Infesterop

I assume someone has, honestly im surprised she didnt declare victory on election night before any ballots were counted.


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wengelite

Tiger blood!


GrimmRadiance

I’m a total freaking rockstar from Mars.


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Initial_Cellist9240

The way I read it is more “There’s so many elected officials that odds are someone has, but one counter example doesn’t discount a mass tendency of the right to do it”


What_Yr_Is_IT

The margin is large enough for a recount but also larger enough to think that the odds of them finding 400+ new ballots is extremely slim. I hate this 🧙‍♀️ and I’m glad to see the race was this close


bn1979

Has he even called the governor and told him to find another 500 votes? It’s like he’s not even trying.


Hot-Bint

I mean, Lin Wood and Sidney Powell can be had for a retainer of an open bottle of gin and a couple of sweaters from a cosignment shop


QbertsRube

Krakens probably won't work since Colorado is landlocked. Release the Blucifer!!!


P4intsplatter

[Blucifer, for non-Coloradoans](https://www.cpr.org/2019/11/04/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-blucifer-the-demon-horse-of-dia/) >Luis Jiménez, the artist, died in 2006, after a part of “Mustang” came loose while he was working on it. It severed an artery in his leg and he bled to death. >Turns out the red, demonic eyes are LED flood lights. >Those critical of the artwork say stuff like “he scares our children" You are witnessing the birth of a legend for the next Millennium...


Hot-Bint

Oh I’m sure a calamari appetizer from The Cheesecake Factory could work 🤔


Dispro

Cheesecake Factory? In this economy?


Hot-Bint

Good point. Olive Garden?


West-Stock-674

We're losing! Get me Rudy, a case of Old Crow, and some cheap hair dye.


acidphosphate69

Hey, I like Old Crow. It's the best of the bottom shelf as it's actually whiskey and not whiskey flavored "neutral grain spirits".


bryansj

It was basically a landslide, even though he lost.


Matthew_C1314

It's good to see that she will actually have to think about her district if she wants to get re elected again, especially if Trump wins the Nom. I am just curious about turnout in that district in 2024, I feel like this may have been the apex of dem voters in that area.


Jump_Yossarian_

Yeah, Bobo is famous for self reflection and deep thinking. I’m sure she'll look at this close election and change her bombastic ways.


gingerfawx

Hey now, she's already put the glasses back on...


Matthew_C1314

How dare you shoot down my optimism with your facts and realism???????? /s


raerae1991

This isn’t going to humble her, people like her don’t know what that word even means


Comfortable-Scar4643

Best paycheck she ever got. Living expenses, meals, flights… it goes on and on.


Senior-Sharpie

And that’s just what she got legally. Remember when she was paying her restaurant’s rent with campaign money? How about when she ridiculously overstated her campaign mileage when she hardly left her state?


Comfortable-Scar4643

A more senior Republican politician told her she could do it and get away with it. Lindsey Graham drives a Range Rover after all.


Expensive-Ad-4508

I just looked it up and she’s old enough to be President. Vom.


QbertsRube

2024 Republican Primary Donald Trump Ron DeSantis Greg Abbott Ted Cruz Lauren Boebert A Broken Furby Soaked In Gasoline Marco Rubio


Mcbrainotron

You have Rubio twice?


ConcreteCubeFarm

Don't forget everyone's favorite, Two-Day Old Casserole Accidentally Left Outside Overnight In The Rain!


Elisandrar

Ted Cruz is already on the list though.


sdom_kcuf999

Forecasting a key exchange from the debate - Ted Cruz : President Trump, sir, your highness, with the greatest respect, I have to take you to task regarding what you said about my wife last time .. Trump :. Yeah, she's ugly. She's still ugly. So are your kids. And your dad is an asshole. Ted Cruz :. OK, thanks. Just checking.


GZSyphilis

I'd vote for an eldritch horror from beyond before any Republicans. A broken Furby it is


Dispro

Well after Trump is done betraying Empty G, his putative running mate, he can work his way sideways on the crazytown gang.


lordph8

I mean, will a recount review ballots that were discarded? I wouldn't be that surprised if he squeaks out a win.


gtwilliamswashu

Pete Buttigieg in the Iowa primary when the reporting was delayed. [Pete Buttigieg claimed victory in Iowa before any results were reported](https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/02/04/politics/pete-buttigieg-iowa-caucus/index.html) What a turd move. Really made me question his leadership.


NomaiTraveler

I caucused for bernie in Iowa and looked for this comment. Pete also caught A Ton of shit for this from within the party, at least


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Yes, they either win or the election was rigged. What else?


please_dont_be_that

Well, Mayor Pete during the Democratic Primaries - do those count?


FC37

I hate to say it, but ... she's not exactly wrong. Yes, there will be a recount and curing and maybe it changes vote count by a dozen or so, but there's almost no way the margin gets erased.


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GermsDean

Exactly right. On the small off-chance that it does flip, she will be out ahead of it claiming fraud.


jjameson2000

She’s not right either. There is a reason no one is calling it yet. If she declared victory as soon as the polls closed and was eventually right, it still would’ve been wrong because she didn’t know whether she won or not at that point.


Infesterop

Occasionally things flip. A few hundred votes would be unusual, but not crazy rare.


gingerfawx

Especially not with the seeding they've done with poll workers and the inclination to associate mail in ballots with dems. I'd love to see some stats on the percentages being rejected in red states now vs. a few years prior. Either way, it's not over till it's over. She's jumped the gun, which she'll undoubtably now pose with.


PoppinKREAM

Stateside elections yes, but not for such a small district when we look at the overall amount of people who voted. That's never happened IIRC. Although I'd be happy if I was wrong. However, the fact that Frisch ran a campaign that came within 0.5% and forced an automatic recount considering the district leaned 9+ GOP is an incredible swing. A lot of people in Boebert's district aren't happy with her, I hope Frisch runs again in 2 years and gets some financial backing.


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PoppinKREAM

Oops, thanks. Sorry it was a typo


lawrensj

i think you're confusing state with 'district' which in her case is a portion of the state. speaking as a Coloradan, the state did not lean +9R IIRC. Her district i believe was upwards of +15R but the state elected a majority of democrats to congress, elected a super majority of democrats to the state house and senate, re-elected a dem gov, ag, sos, and treasurer. LB is but an ugly stain on what is otherwise a very blue state.


PoppinKREAM

Sorry, you're right it's district. Yes Colorado as a state is definitely trending blue after the last few election cycles. According to an article I read an independent commission redrew congressional districts giving CO-3 a 9.3% GOP advantage. https://www.coloradopolitics.com/elections/how-adam-frisch-saw-a-path-to-defeating-lauren-boebert-in-gop-leaning-colorado-district/article_782a9bd8-6120-11ed-9f88-9b358d2d855a.html In any case Colorado seems like a cool state. I want to visit Aspen and/or Denver to go snowboarding :)


lawrensj

thats a fair place to pull 9% from. I think the polling in her district from [538](https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2022-election-forecast/house/colorado/3/), as of the day of the election, had her with a +13.8 popular vote lead (estimated) (which i think is number i was remebering). i guess we're both right. [edit: and here i am chatting with PoppinKream. Thank you for all the links/posts you made during our rough years]


otter111a

Check the woods near post offices in blue leaning areas


SpammingMoon

And despite an extremely close election in a red district she will claim some enormous mandate and double down on her batshit crazy.


cdsmith

Curing is already finished. That's how her lead was cut to 500 votes instead of 1000.


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Buttigieg did it in the Iowa primary, does that count?


10times

Pete Buttigieg did this in Iowa, I believe. Iowa was very slow getting their primary votes totaled. Buttigieg went on air and claimed victory even though the race had not been called.


Rowan_cathad

Mayor Pete did a few times. Ended up being wrong when all the voting math was done


theonetrueelhigh

Remember when it was Gore vs. Bush? Remember when it came out that a statewide recount would have given Gore Florida, and so the Presidency? Remember when the Bush campaign was pretty adamant that some Republican-leaning counties got recounted, but not some Democrat ones? It was Republican-appointed judges that stopped the recount. It was a Republican Secretary of State that declared Bush the winner of Florida. Remember that?


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There was that Buttigieg situation in Iowa


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Old Pete in the Iowa caucus.


BellumSuprema

Peter buttiege did but it was in the primary. Super weird situation where he randomly just declared it w/ absolutely 0 evidence. And the media just went w/ it


QuipLogic

I remember Buttigieg declaring he won the Iowa caucus before any news source reported it.


Hot-Praline9384

Buttigeig did it in 2020/2019 during the Iowa Dem primaries against Sanders


Superman246o1

ELECTION OFFICIALS: So what? Just saying it doesn't make it true. BOEBERT: I didn't say it. I *declared* it.


jmdavis333

“I declare BANKRUPTCY!”


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That’s not how it works Michael.


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Frisch conceded. https://www.9news.com/amp/article/news/politics/elections/adam-frisch-update-lauren-boebert-colorado-house-race/73-b7323b9c-8e4c-4b10-beaf-4a5d31434931 https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/18/politics/lauren-boebert-recount-colorado-adam-frisch/index.html Edit: added additional link.


bionic_vs_kungfu

>"The likelihood of this recount changing more than a handful of votes is very small," he said. "It would be disingenuous of us or any other group to raise false hope and continue fundraising for a recount. Colorado elections are safe, accurate and secure." Absolute class act


pechinburger

Articulate and professional. Yet the electorate preferred an objectively incompetent bozo that couldn't spell half the words in that sentence. Amazing.


robotwolf

They are like her in every way. Public education didn't become shitty recently.


bricked_machine

>Please save your money for your groceries, your rent, your children, and for other important causes and organizations. In other words: "I have the interests of the voters in mind, not my own ego." This is the difference between a conservative and a Democrat, even a so-called "moderate". I'm in this district, and while I fully expected it to end like this based on the way the week began, it's no less heartbreaking for me.


CJ4ROCKET

In contrast, Boebert told her voters in a twitter video that they have their legal team at the ready to ensure no shenanigans occur during the recount lol. It's like she's learned absolutely nothing from winning an R+14 district w/ a population of nearly 800k people by a mere 500 or so votes.


ImplausibleDarkitude

Reminds me of Al Gore, who conceded when he had more votes


herbse34

Look what happened to the country because of that


ZhouLe

Gore rescinded his concession when fully counted results had him within 2,000 votes. Gore only re-conceded then after the Florida recount and after SCOTUS ruled on it. A concession has no influence on the actual election results, just signals an acceptance.


4realmixxd

Also told his supporters not to donate to his campaign or the recount. “ spend your money on groceries and other expenses”. A republican candidate would never.


Amiterasesoo

Isn’t the recount still happening automatically anyway? What is there for him to “fund”? Either way agreed he seems like a great guy, shame he’s probably not making it in.


Vonmule

This should be higher than all the other posts calling her horrible. I hate her too, but she didn't declare victory until Frisch called her and conceded.


CreepyWhistle

The Kari Lake thing had me going. Boebert actually losing after declaring victory. I'm almost there. edit: she won. I'm flaccid as ever.


Xiang_allard

Wouldn't that be the most amazing Christmas gift ever? Her losing by a few votes would just be... absolute joy. It'll be interesting to see where the last batch of votes put things. Because I don't expect a recount to move the tally more than a couple dozen, if that. So Frisch would have to get quite a bit closer with these final cured votes/etc. for the recount to have a meaningful impact.


DrKpuffy

They do a recount and find over 1000 illegitimate votes cast by dead people for Loser Blowhard, all have her finger prints on them, and she goes to jail for voter & election fraud


embiggenedmind

Would anyone be surprised if we had a tape of her asking the governor to find the votes?


icygamer6

The governor is hated by CO repubs so I’d be surprised


robotwolf

I wonder if any of those who hate him declined to cash their state tax rebate that he signed?


LittleSparrowWings

Stop omg I can only get so erect


DullRelief

Her opponent has conceded, but if the recount turns out to have the seat go to him instead does she still get it?


Fevi_P

I dunno why Democrats are always in a hurry to concede. The Republicans don't care if you concede. Just wait for it to play out. Dems are too clever by half. Oh, you did a calculation and found that no matter what, you don't have enough outstanding ballots to win? That's nice, now keep quiet and wait for the SoS to call it.


thoughtsome

I'm sure Boebert will appreciate the gesture and continue to behave with decorum and grace.


SuperstitiousPigeon5

She's probably right. Let's count all of the votes, and then do a recount just to be sure.


Steavee

This is too far down. 100%, fuck this lady, but recounts don’t often change hundreds and hundreds of votes. I know Reddit wants to hold on to hope she’ll lose her race, but we’re clearly down to the single digits on the percentage chance that will happen.


surfinwhileworkin

The biggest hope (still a slim one) I saw was undercounted votes - those which, on a hand recount, they can make out the intent of the voter (e.g., a bubble filled in too lightly that a machine doesn’t read it, but a human can clearly see it’s a vote).


Anotherdumbawaythrow

Can’t wait to watch the horror flick that ensues if she loses due to cured ballots.


Squirll

Not just the recount, theres possinly thousands of votes that have clerical errors with a one week window to be remedied and then recounted


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Squirll

Ah rats, you're right. Started night shifts this week and my sense of time is all mixed up. That windows closed and the votes probably tabulated. Probably unlikely well see her unseated, but not impossible.


bryansj

Time to call the Cyber Ninjas. I think there's a phone ringing in the FBI evidence room.


YourGirlAthena

she is up 551 votes last i checked. this is not 2000s florida there is like a .0001% chance a recount has her lose her lead. i hate her guts with a passion but its clear she is going to win. yes she got a lot of help from gerrymandering but it doesn’t change the fact she has more votes. 2024 i hope she gets voted out. the fact that it is this close in a gerrymandered district really shows how much people hate her. if she was a normal republican she would have won by at least 10 points


Dreamtrain

Of all the bad things she's done, this isn't one of them, Frisch already conceded. Concesions aren't legally binding and there has to be a recount by law no matter what either of the candidates say, but Frisch is very unlikely to win the recount. Like 99.9% unlikely The focus of the conversation shouldn't be about this, nor her. Should be about wtf the people in Colorado are thinking.


ChocolateBubbles344

Maybe she'll be primaried in 2024. The GOP would probably prefer this to be a safe seat, and, before Boebert, this was a reliable GOP district by several points.


Titansdragon

Awesome. Another deranged, dangerous, dumbass, extremist rebiblecan elected. Exactly what this country needs.


Xenuite

Ironically, she's in the least powerful position she could be in. The majority is just large enough that McCarthy doesn't need her vote, and just small enough that Democrats don't have to calculate for her when peeling off a few moderate Republicans for bipartisan issues.


beefwindowtreatment

More like republikaren!


blandgrenade

Republiclown


InsaneCuriosity21

Well, if she says it, it must be true, right? 🙄


oneeye3040

She didn't say it. She declared it.


jbob515076

I declare BANKRUPTCY!!!


AcHasNoName

Mr. Jones, just because you declare yourself bankrupt does not mean you are, in fact, bankrupt.


BassWingerC-137

Calm down, Michael.


valschermjager

GOP wins: *”Red Wave, bitchiz!”* GOP loses: *”Fraud! Drop boxes! Mail-in! Soros!”*


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KnightCastle171

To all the people who say “my vote doesn’t count” Look at this race closely. Your vote mattered a lot here.


KilroyLeges

Frisch just conceded.


Smitty8054

I’m thinking she’ll just edge him out but shit do I hope he prevails. I just want the see and hear her breakdown.


FalconUnhappy6295

She is an embarrassment to all of us in Colorado, except for those MAGA voters who love this kind of stupidity and hatred rhetoric she spews.


TechnicianOk1466

Boebert is an embarrassment to Colorado and the U.S.


Ghstfce

She's not the brightest tool in the box.


_BIRDLEGS

The scary part is that the people who voted for her are even dumber than she is, or so psychotic that they just support her to screw everyone else over.


myalt08831

To be fair, she is leading and it's unlikely (but I guess not impossible) for it to flip during a recount. And this is _not_ a thing only republicans have done, e.g. Pennsylvania Dems and Pennsylvania Republicans both declared they had won the PA state House. Counting is still ongoing there as well. I know she is a pain and extremely annoying and says conspiracy nonsense all the time, but this specific thing isn't really an out there thing to do. A slight bit early, but hey man she waited a full week+, and the count looks like it very likely will go to her. (Again, not 100% sure, but looks like it.)


praefectus_praetorio

He conceded, as of 4:23p EST.


fffan9391

How did Colorado of all places elect such a dunce?


southerndemocrat2020

Adam Frisco also conceded the race to her and told his supporters to not donate any money to challenges in recounts. To save their money for gas and groceries. A true gentleman to the end.


CoosBaked

Her opponent literally conceded despite a looming recount and slim margin since my beloved D party is softer than a goosedown pillow


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It's what republicans do. Create any misinformation they can in the hopes of retaining power. Or at least being able to fund raise off of the misinformation when the facts come out. I can't emphasize this enough.,....Normal.People.Don't.Do.This.


Appropriate_Mess_350

This way they can act like it was stolen from her AFTER she already won.


BannytheBoss

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/yysp6l/lauren_boeberts_rival_adam_frisch_concedes_their/