Boebert blames 'the markets' and her own party as Colorado count slips away

As of Friday morning, Democrat Eileen Laubacher leads the too-close-to-call fight for Colorado's 4th congressional district with 186,218 votes, or 48.79 percent. Boebert sits second on 182,856, or 47.91 percent. An outcome is expected later today.

Boebert told NewsNation's Blake Burman late Thursday that a loss wouldn't come down to any single factor. She started with policy, citing her House Freedom Caucus floor fights over FISA surveillance warrants and a push to ban insider trading for members of Congress. Then she went further, claiming voters had been “played by the markets.” Pressed for clarity, she said gas in her district is now under $3 a gallon when it was closer to $6 just over a week ago, and called for “some accountability there” — without offering evidence. She also pointed to legislation to pause diesel exports and suspend the federal gas tax.

On the national wipeout, Boebert called last week's results “absolutely a cry that the American people do not want corruption from anyone, any time.” Democrats reclaimed the House and Senate majorities with a run of wins stretching from Michigan to Kansas, Texas and Mississippi. Asked about Vice President JD Vance's claim that the Iran war cost Republicans at the polls, she didn't disagree — and offered only a lukewarm “possible” on a Vance 2028 run, calling the midterms a rebuke to “this Republican Party.”

Two days before the interview, MeidasTouch reporter Pablo Manriquez caught her on the Capitol steps, where she made a similar argument about her party's messaging — then declared, “I always think we're too moderate.” Asked where, she pointed to frustration over the war. Boebert has complained about the conflict before, but voted against congressional measures aimed at ending it, dismissing them as symbolic.

Boebert, 39, has been one of the GOP's loudest MAGA voices across three terms, once branded a leader of the “extreme MAGA movement” by former president Joe Biden. She has repeatedly clashed with her own House leadership, including former speakers Kevin McCarthy and Mike Johnson. Trump endorsed her days before the election as a “MAGA Warrior,” but earlier this year called her “dumb” and “weak-minded” after she joined Kentucky GOP Rep. Thomas Massie in demanding the release of the Epstein files.