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   After a recount in a remarkably close race, Representative   
   Lauren Boebert of Colorado, known for heckling President Biden   
   during his State of the Union speech, arming herself on Capitol   
   Hill and ignoring Covid mask rules, won her bid for a second   
   term. Colorado’s secretary of state, Jena Griswold, announced   
   the results on Monday.   
      
   Ms. Boebert, 35, staved off a fierce challenge from Adam Frisch,   
   a Democratic businessman and former Aspen, Colo., city   
   councilman, in the state’s Republican-leaning Third District.   
      
   Mr. Frisch, who faced a deficit of roughly 500 votes out of more   
   than 327,000 cast, gained just two votes in the automatic   
   recount. In the end, Ms. Boebert won with 50.06 percent of the   
   vote, to Mr. Frisch’s 49.89 percent.   
      
   On Twitter on Sunday, before the recount was made official by   
   the secretary of state, Ms. Boebert said: “Our conservative   
   policies will help all Americans to overcome the challenges we   
   face so each of us has the opportunity to live our very best   
   life. Thank you for entrusting me to help lead the way. I’ll be   
   working every day to prove I can get the job done right.”   
      
   Mr. Frisch had sought to cast Ms. Boebert as a flamethrower in   
   an increasingly polarized Congress, saying she was focused more   
   on placating the Republican Party’s far-right Trump wing than on   
   reducing inflation and adding jobs.   
      
   He presented himself in a television ad as not a typical   
   Democrat, saying that he would not vote for Representative Nancy   
   Pelosi for House speaker and that he supported border security.   
   He showed footage of himself hunting with a shotgun.   
      
   But a disadvantage in name recognition and the makeup of voters   
   in the district proved too much for Mr. Frisch to overcome   
   against Ms. Boebert, who has drawn national attention for her   
   incendiary actions.   
      
   On Monday evening, he released a statement on his loss. “While   
   we hoped for a different outcome,” Mr. Frisch said, “we defied   
   incredible odds with the closeness of this race.” He added, “I   
   am confident that the coalition of Democrats, Republicans and   
   unaffiliated voters we built throughout this campaign to reject   
   hate and extremism in Southern and Western Colorado will grow   
   into the future.”   
      
   Along with Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, a   
   fellow Republican also in her first term, Ms. Boebert brought a   
   no-holds-barred brand of politics to the House, feeding off a   
   social media echo chamber of loyalists who backed former   
   President Donald J. Trump. That has put Ms. Boebert at odds with   
   platforms like Twitter, which temporarily suspended her account   
   after she spread the falsehood that the 2020 election was rigged.   
      
   Her rhetoric and her style of politics also made her a target of   
   Democrats during the Republican primary, many of whom crossed   
   party lines to support her Republican challenger, driven by   
   fears of her extremism.   
      
   Ms. Boebert won her seat in Congress in 2020, when she unseated   
   a five-term incumbent in the Republican primary before going on   
   to win the general election. Until then, she had run a gun-   
   themed restaurant in Colorado’s ranch country — the Shooters   
   Grill — where she encouraged staff members to carry firearms and   
   defied restrictions by staying open during the pandemic.   
      
      
      
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