Lauren Boebert’s Rival Says Voters ‘Want Circus to Stop’ Amid Tight Race

Republican Representative Lauren Boebert‘s Democratic challenger Adam Frisch has said that the unexpectedly tight race between the pair shows that voters “want the circus to stop.”

Frisch spoke to MSNBC‘s Katie Phang on Saturday morning about the race in Colorado’s 3rd district, which has been much closer than many polls had predicted and could go either way.

As of Saturday morning, Boebert led with 50.17 percent of the vote to Frisch’s 49.83 percent with around 95 percent of votes counted, pulling ahead of the Democrat with a razor thin margin.

Frisch told Phang he had achieved a “moral win” but “we truly, really want the win-win.”

Phang asked Frisch why he was neck-and-neck with Boebert, and he noted that the Republican won just 51 percent of the vote in 2020. Boebert won 51.4 percent to Democratic candidate Diane Mitsch Bush’s 45.2 percent at the last election.

“My view is that those who know her best, don’t care for her and they wanted another option,” Frisch said.

“So, this was a referendum election,” Frisch said. “A lot of people were frustrated with her, there’s no doubt about that.”

“You know, Donald Trump delivered tax cuts and regulation chops and three Supreme Court justices,” he said. “You saw [Senate Minority Leader ] Mitch McConnell spent half his time putting his head down on the Senate floor saying, ‘I know, I know, I know,’ he’s driving me crazy, but look what he’s delivering. She hasn’t delivered anything and that is what we really focused on.”

“I think a lot of people are just frustrated with her. I knew that – I think about 40 percent of the Republican Party wants their party back,” Frisch went on, saying he believed he needed to “tap about 10 percent of them.”

“And people want the circus to stop,” he said. “And when I talked about that phrase, whether I was in the most red parts of the district, which there’s a lot of, they put their head down and they agreed.”

Newsweek has asked the Boebert campaign for comment.

Boebert, a strong supporter of former President Donald Trump, has enjoyed a high profile nationally since she was first elected to the House in 2020. She has also caused some controversy, including for vowing to bring a handgun with her to Congress.

The Republican is now facing potential defeat in her…