Democrat Eileen Laubacher declared victory Monday in her race against U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, a polarizing crusader for the Make America Great Again movement whose apparent defeat in Colorado’s most conservative district is the latest fallout of the blue wave that crashed over President Donald Trump’s coalition last week. The Greeley Tribune reports while the Associated Press had not yet called the 4th Congressional District race Monday afternoon and Boebert has not conceded, CNN projected Laubacher would win the tight contest. Laubacher, a retired Navy rear admiral, continued to slightly expand her lead with new vote totals Monday evening, maintaining her 48.8%-to-47.9% split with Boebert — a margin of just under 1 percentage point, but not close enough to trigger an automatic recount.
