In the third quarter of this year, which ended at the close of September, Democratic Congressional candidate Adam Frisch ultimately raised way, way more than the Republican incumbent who he is hoping to challenge in next year’s general elections — Colorado’s Lauren Boebert.
Boebert reported about $854,000 in total receipts in the three-month period, meaning that’s the total amount of money that her campaign assembled from various sources. Contributions from individuals were at about $795,000. Frisch? His campaign fundraising reportedly reached nearly $3.4 million in the same span of time, though the official filings that outlined these numbers weren’t available as quickly as Boebert’s.
Frisch expressed confidence in his campaign prospects as these figures circulated. “Western and Southern Colorado deserve a representative who will work hard to deliver results and put the needs of the district first, not an extreme political agenda,” the candidate said this month. “Thanks to our generous supporters, we will defeat Boebert in 2024.”
Frisch is the Democrat who faced Boebert in the general election in 2022, finishing merely hundreds of votes behind her after hundreds of thousands of ballots were cast across the western Colorado Congressional district. This time, Frisch still must win a Democratic primary before he officially reaches the general election for 2024.
Unlike the Georgia Congressional district currently represented by Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene (another frequent target of Democrats), former President Donald Trump only won Boebert’s district in 2020 by evidently single digits. And Boebert probably isn’t doing much to gain new supporters with her consistent focus in D.C. on trying to impeach President Joe Biden on deceptive grounds. It shouldn’t be lost how profoundly out of touch with reality it really was for Boebert to claim in an impeachment proposal that she filed that foreign criminal groups had taken control at the southern border. She also joined the failed far-right effort to secure the cancellation of a slew of past presidential declarations of emergency covering various violent situations around the world. The declarations she and her ideological allies targeted have provided the legal foundation for U.S. action like sanctions.
