Boebert lead narrows, recount likely - The Hill

The Colorado House contention betwixt Rep. Lauren Boebert (R) and her hostile Adam Frisch (D) is excessively adjacent to telephone aft the right-wing firebrand’s pb narrowed from much than 1,000 votes to astir 551 this week, meaning the contention is apt heading to a recount.

After the latest circular of votes successful the 3rd District was tallied, Boebert holds 50.1 percent of the ballot with 99 percent reporting, portion Frisch holds 49.9.

The contention has been surprisingly close arsenic the 2 candidates person gone backmost and distant with the pb since Election Day

Colorado authorities instrumentality orders a mandatory recount erstwhile the ballot borderline betwixt the 2 starring candidates is adjacent to oregon little than 0.5 percent of the votes attributed to the first-ranked candidate.

The existent borderline betwixt Boebert and Frisch is astir 0.35 percent.

Boebert, who enthusiastically claims that erstwhile President Trump won the 2020 statesmanlike predetermination contempt providing nary grounds of fraud, claimed triumph successful a video posted connected Thursday night.

“We won! I americium truthful thankful for each of your enactment and I americium truthful arrogant to beryllium your Representative!” the congresswoman wrote alongside the video.

Boebert added that the adjacent contention volition trigger an automatic recount to beryllium completed successful aboriginal December.

“My run squad and our lawyers volition decidedly marque definite everything is conducted properly,” she said.

“Come January, you tin beryllium definite of 2 things: I volition beryllium sworn successful for my 2nd word arsenic your congresswoman and Republicans tin yet crook Pelosi’s House backmost into the people’s House.”