After a straw poll showed Representative Lauren Boebert's district switch-up was struggling to win over voters, The Colorado Sun published a cartoon on Friday mocking her reelection efforts.
Boebert, a Republican, announced in December that she would be running for reelection to the U.S. House of Representatives in Colorado's 4th Congressional District instead of the 3rd District where she has held office since 2021.
Despite her defending the move by saying it's the "right decision for those who support our conservative movement," it has been widely viewed as an attempt to avoid lower reelection odds in the 3rd District where she's facing a notable primary challenge from Republican Jeff Hurd and an even more fraught general election challenge from Democrat Adam Frisch.
In addition, Boebert was recorded as the fifth most popular candidate in a straw poll taken after a debate in Fort Lupton, Colorado's eighth congressional district, on January 25. The straw poll taken of 100 Republican voters saw Boebert pick up just 12 votes, behind Logan County Commissioner Jerry Sonnenberg, who topped the poll with 22 votes.
The Colorado Sun, a major online newspaper based in Denver, on Friday published a cartoon by editorial cartoonist Jim Morrissey titled, "How to explain Lauren Boebert's straw poll finish?"
The cartoon takes aim at the congresswoman as it features Boebert holding the straw poll, while saying, "Stop the straw poll steal!"
Newsweek has reached out to Boebert's office via email for comment.
Boebert, a staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump, has established herself as one of the most outspoken House Republicans. The congresswoman has also supported the "Stop the Steal" movement in 2020, a conservative campaign and protest that the 2020 election was stolen via widespread fraud, a claim Trump has often said without any evidence.
However, Boebert said during the debate in Fort Lupton that she respected the fact she would have to "earn" the votes of her potential constituents.
"I am here to earn your support, earn your vote," she said. "This is not a coronation."
The Colorado newspaper's cartoon is only the latest backlash Boebert has received after the straw poll.
Former New York assistant attorney generaland Donald Trump critic Tristan Snell said on X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday that the congresswoman was facing problems because she "abandoned her congressional district because she was going to lose."
While Representative Jasmine Crockett, a Texas Democrat, also mocked Boebert in a post on X on January 29.
"Before I go to bed, I thought it would only be fitting to send 'thoughts & prayers' to my colleague, Lauren Boebert," Crockett said. "It's my understanding that she placed 5th in her first straw poll of the election cycle. Now how many of y'all think BoBo gonna try to convince us that polls don't matter[?]"
Meanwhile, soon after Boebert announced her move to seek reelection in another district, Greg Brophy, a former Republican state lawmaker from Wray in northeastern Colorado, who has called the congresswoman a friend for years, seemed to disagree with the move.
"It looks like she's so in love with the D.C. swamp that she will do whatever it takes to stay there. Sometimes your friends do things that disappoint you," Brophy told The Denver Post in early January.
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