{"id":81295,"date":"2026-11-13T15:55:21","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T20:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/13\/rep-lauren-boebert-projected-to-lose-house-seat-in-another-democratic-flip\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T15:55:21","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T20:55:21","slug":"rep-lauren-boebert-projected-to-lose-house-seat-in-another-democratic-flip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/13\/rep-lauren-boebert-projected-to-lose-house-seat-in-another-democratic-flip\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep Lauren Boebert projected to lose House seat in another Democratic flip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GOP firebrand Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/person\/b\/rep-lauren-boebert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lauren Boebert<\/a>, R-Colo., is projected to lose her seat in the House to Democratic challenger Eileen Laubacher.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press made the call in the razor-thin race Friday afternoon in favor of Laubacher, who maintained her slim 48.7% lead over Boebert\u2019s 47.9% once 99% of the ballots had been counted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Libertarian candidate Douglas Mangeris came in third with a little more than 3% of the vote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lubacher is projected to win <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/west\/colorado\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colorado<\/a>\u2019s 4th Congressional District, according to the AP.<\/p>\n<p>Boebert was running for her fourth term in the state. She served her first two seats in Colorado\u2019s third district, and was running for her second term in the state\u2019s fourth district.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old congresswoman\u2019s loss comes amid a blue wave that saw Democrats flip seats in Republican strongholds like Texas, Kansas, South Carolina and Mississippi.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Democrats now have 256 seats in the House of Representatives to Republicans\u2019 169. A party needs 218 for a majority.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Several races nationwide remain uncalled nearly two weeks after Election Day.<\/p>\n<p><i>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP firebrand Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., is projected to lose her seat in the House to Democratic challenger Eileen Laubacher.\u00a0 The Associated Press made the call in the razor-thin race Friday afternoon in favor of Laubacher, who maintained her slim 48.7% lead over Boebert\u2019s 47.9% once 99% of the ballots had been counted.\u00a0 Libertarian candidate &#8230; <a title=\"Rep Lauren Boebert projected to lose House seat in another Democratic flip\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/13\/rep-lauren-boebert-projected-to-lose-house-seat-in-another-democratic-flip\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Rep Lauren Boebert projected to lose House seat in another Democratic flip\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}