Lauren Boebert Refuses Concession
Boebert disputed projections showing Democrat Laubacher winning her Colorado House seat.
November 10, 2026 · Updated Nov 10, 2:46pm ET
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What happened
- Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert
Lauren BoebertUnited States Representative from Colorado since 2021 continues to refuse to concede Colorado’s 4th Congressional District race to Democrat Eileen Laubacher
Eileen H. LaubacherAmerican naval officer, while AP has not called the contest. - Laubacher leads by 3,352 votes, or about 0.9 percentage points, with an estimated 98% of votes counted.
- Laubacher, a retired Navy rear admiral, declared victory Monday after CNN projected she would win.
- Boebert called the victory declaration premature, saying thousands of ballots still need corrections and military and overseas votes remain to be counted.
- Boebert said counting and ballot corrections would be completed by Friday, Nov. 13, and that she would accept the outcome if the remaining votes do not change it.
How the left told it
Left-leaning outlets generally treated Boebert’s refusal as resistance to a likely defeat. HuffPost called her video “pretty desperate” and highlighted a community note challenging her hopes of closing the gap. Raw Story described her as “all but certain to lose,” while Joe.My.God. highlighted her insistence that the race was not over.
How the right told it
Right-leaning outlets generally emphasized Boebert’s demand to finish counting before conceding. Breitbart stressed that AP had not called the race and ballots could remain outstanding. Western Journal portrayed her opponent and the media as “seemingly ganging up on her,” while The Washington Times reported the projected loss alongside her campaign’s objections.
