Lauren Boebert election results – live: Republican says ‘of course’ she will win as Colorado election may be headed to recount

Lauren Boebert finally broken her 36-hour silence on Thursday after she fell silent on election night when her race against Democrat Adam Frisch didn’t go as planned.

The incumbent MAGA Republican congresswoman posted a vague tweet on her Twitter page on Thursday morning, making no mention of the tight race which threatens to oust her from Congress after just one term.

“Good morning! Jesus is Lord,” she simply wrote.

In a follow-up tweet, she posted a meme appearing to mock the pace of counting of votes in Colorado.

The Independent’s Rachel Sharp has the full story:

Prior to election day, Adam Frisch told The Independent that he decided to take on the MAGA Republican in the race for her US House seat in response to her “angertainment”.

He said that this phrase is what “Representative Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene and a lot of other people are – and there’s some on the left, as well – that use this kind of just … yelling and screaming. I mean, a lot of time on Twitter, a lot of time on the cable news networks and not really focusing on the job at hand.”

Mr Frisch, a currency trader who served on the Aspen, Colorado city council for eight years, added that he found some of her bizarre comments “disgusting and anti-ethical to America”.

“I was thinking, you know, if a moderate, pragmatic, pro-business Democrat could get by the Democratic primary, which wouldn’t be easy – and it wasn’t – I thought I could build a coalition,” he said.

Adam Frisch has called for “respect” for the state’s serving military members, many of whose votes are yet to be counted in the Colorado race.

On Thursday, the Democrat tweeted that thousands of votes are still to counted, as well as votes from people serving in the military or living overseas.

“Everyone in #CO03 deserves to have their voice heard, regardless of political affiliation. I am confident that each and every valid ballot will be counted.

“In particular, we must honor and respect those who serve our country by ensuring that every military ballot is counted,” he tweeted.

“1/Every vote matters in this incredibly close race and thousands of votes in Pueblo County and from military & overseas voters remain, and a considerable number of curable ballots remain as well.

“Help us gather the resources to see this through!”

Lauren Boebert paid a visit to Washington DC while the fight to hold onto her House seat went down to the wire back in Colorado.

The MAGA Republican incumbent attended the House Freedom Caucus’ Covid-19 pandemic accountability hearing on Thursday – the same day she finally broke her silence about the unexpected close race.

Speaking to reporters at the event, she tried to push the GOP’s worse-than-expected performance in her home state onto the big-ticket candidates.

“I don’t know if there wasn’t enough enthusiasm for our top-ticket candidates for governor and Senate, or what happened there, but there was a lot of shifting in the votes there,” she said.

Colorado’s Democratic Governor Jared Polis and Senator Michael Bennet both comfortably beat their Republican rivals in their reelection races.

In Colorado, an automatic recount is triggered if a candidate wins by a margin of 0.5 per cent or less of the leading candidate’s total votes.

This means that, to avoid a recount, either Lauren Boebert or Adam Frisch would need to lead by around 788 votes.

If a recount is triggered, it must be completed within 35 days of election day.

Lauren Boebert has insisted she is confident she will hold onto her House seat despite the unexpected close race remaining too tight to call.

“Of course I expect to win. It’ll be great,” the Republican incumbent told reporters on Thursday night in Washington DC.

When asked if she would support House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy in his bid for speaker if the GOP takes the House, she hit out saying she was focusing on herself.

“Is this what you all are focused on? Do you know that I am – do you know that I am 794 votes up in my race right now?” she fired.

“That’s kind of my focus right now,” she said.

Lauren Boebert is now leading by 1,122 votes in what has shaped up to be a surprisingly close race for the US House seat in Colorado.

Ms Boebert currently leads with 50.2 per cent of votes to Democratic challenger Adam Frisch’s 49.8 per cent, with 99 per cent of votes now reported in the district.

The race is still too close to call.

After trailing for much of the race, the Donald Trump ally clawed her way back to a lead on Thursday, inching past the Democrat to a lead of 386 votes that morning. She widened the lead to 794 votes that afternoon before more votes were reported later in the day.

Imagine you have just purchased Republican Representative Lauren Boebert’s new autobiographical book, “My American Life.”

You rush to her restaurant, Shooter’s Bar and Grill, to begin flipping through its pages. A waitress — pistol dangling from a holster on her hip — drops a menu on the table. You glance over it, your eyes stopping at the pork sliders. The fake news says they gave concert-goers diarrhea back in 2017. But you didn’t come all this way, to Rifle, Colorado, for lies. You want the truth — and it’s sitting right there in your hands. You dive in.

Lauren Boebert’s Shooters Grill in Colorado has closed down after the restaurant’s landlords refused to extend the lawmaker’s lease.

The Republican lawmaker’s eatery in the town of Rifle was famous for having waitresses armed with handguns and shut its doors for the final time on Sunday, she confirmed.

“We were like a family. I would say Shooters, for any employee, was their life,” she told The Post Independent about the restaurant that opened in May 2013.

“I voted for four pro-veteran bills that were signed into law and led several amendments to provide funding for mental health and other important services for our veterans,” wrote Ms Boebert in a tweet during the campaign that also urged her followers to click and learn more about “the work I’m doing to support America’s heroes”.

Her opponent Mr Frisch fact-checked her via his own lengthy tweet-thread.