- Republican Rep. Scott Tipton was defeated by top challenger Lauren Boebert in Colorado’s Third Congressional District.
- Boebert, a business owner and gun rights advocate, runs a gun-themed restaurant called Shooters Grill and argued that Tipton was not supportive of President Donald Trump enough.
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Republican representative Scott Tipton lost his nomination for nomination in Colorado’s Third Congressional District in a staggering upset in the state primaries on June 30, Draft Bureau decisions
Tipton was defeated in the Republican primary by a political candidate for the first time Lauren Boebert.
Boebert is a business owner and staunch advocate of gun rights and runs a gun-themed restaurant called Shooters Grill, located in the town of Rifle in western Colorado, where servers are known to openly carry guns, Colorado Public Radio reported.
She is challenging Tipton on the right and arguing that he is not conservative enough or in solidarity with President Donald Trump. In December 2019, Trump backed Tipton for re-election to the third district, which includes most of western Colorado, and voted for Trump by a margin of 12 percentage points in 2016.
“I am tired of the compromise and I think the American people are tired of the compromise. It is never enough for the people on the left. We compromise too much with them and they always want more,” she told CPR, specifically attacking Tipton’s votes in favor of the CARES Act and a bill that would have extended visas for immigrant farm workers.
“Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Squad, and the rest of these left-wing lunatics are bringing a demolition ball to our country while our current representative remains completely silent,” says Boebert on his campaign website. “Patriotic and hardworking Americans like you and me don’t want the green New Deal and socialized medicine. Every time AOC and the rest of the Squad jump in with another crazy idea, I’ll remind you that our belief in God, country, and Family are which made the United States of America the largest nation the world has ever known. ”
Boebert also sympathizes with the QAnon conspiracy theory, which spreads the unfounded belief that a clique of “deep state” actors in the federal government is working to undermine Trump, and CPR reports that he said he expects the base of the QAnon movement “be real” in a “Q friendly web program”.
Boebert will face Democrat Diane Mitsch Bush, a former state representative who unsuccessfully ran against Tipton in 2018, in the 2020 general election.
Tipton is the fifth member of the House of Representatives to lose the nomination in the 2020 cycle, after Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-Illinois), Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), Rep. Eliot Engel (D-New York) , and Representative Denver Riggleman (R-VA), who was expelled by his party at a convention.
Tipton’s annoying loss also makes him the second Trump-backed U.S. House candidate to lose a Republican primary in addition to Riggleman, who was defeated at a convention on June 13.
In the June 23 Republican runoff for North Carolina’s Eleventh Congressional District, previously held by current Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, 24-year-old businessman Madison Cawthorn defeated real estate agent Lynda Bennett, the successor chosen by Meadows that Trump also approved. .
Boebert is also the third known supporter or supporter of the QAnon movement to win or advance to win a Republican primary in Congress.
Jo Rae Perkins, the Republican nominee for the United States Senate in Oregon, has frequently posted about the QAnon movement on social media.
And Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is advancing to a Republican runoff on August 11 in Georgia’s 14th congressional district, has also referred to the QAnon movement multiple times on social media, in addition to making racist, anti-Semitic, and Islamophobic comments on the old times. videos discovered by Politico.
