Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert, who has been linked to the QAnon conspiracy movement, will face a Republican primary challenge from a state lawmaker who has called her “juvenile antics” an embarrassment.
Don Coram, a GOP state senator from Colorado’s western slope, will appear on the June primary ballot after election officials announced Tuesday he had gathered enough valid signatures. His qualification sets up a heated primary race that Coram says he’ll use to highlight controversies that have surrounded Boebert and what he calls the first-term representative’s lack of results.
Coram’s campaign told Newsweek in a statement Tuesday that Boebert is more interested in being “a right-wing celebrity pundit rather than a representative of the people she is paid to represent.” The statement said Coram is known for “building bipartisan coalitions, finding solutions for real issues” while serving in the Legislature since 2011.
A GOP state senator from Colorado will be challenging state Representative Lauren Boebert, a Republican who has been linked to the QAnon conspiracy, in the June primary after calling the first-term representative “a right-wing celebrity pundit.” Above, Boebert during a House Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., on March 29, 2022.
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“I will make the case to primary voters as to why I am the most qualified candidate to represent them and their families,” Coram said in the statement. “Enough is enough! Let’s make Lauren’s first term in Congress her last.”
First elected to Congress in 2020, Boebert quickly became a controversial political figure for trafficking in far-right conspiracy theories and making inflammatory remarks.
While running for election, Boebert spoke glowingly of the QAnon conspiracy theory, saying it “could be really great for our country.” The theory is centered on “Q,” a shadowy high-ranking government official whose anonymous posts have described how former President Donald Trump has secretly fought…