Democrat Lauren Boebert, a Republican in Colorado, reelected in the 2nd District of the 3rd Congressional District

Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert remained in a tight race Friday morning against Democrat Adam Frisch after redistricting made her bid for reelection to her Colorado seat more competitive.

Colorado decided to create a new district after the 2020 Census showed population growth and the state’s Independent Redistricting Commission then created a map that added an eighth seat to the 3rd Congressional District.

Most of the residents in Boebert’s district are white, and many of them have registered as Republicans.

As of September 1, nearly 31% of registered voters were Republican, nearly 24% were Democrat and 44% were unaffiliated with a political party, according to the state’s independent redistricting commissions.

Boebert won the election with 51.6% of the vote, defeating Democrat Diane Mitsch Bush who had 45.2%. If the district had remained the old map, Donald Trump would have won the district by almost eight percentage points but he would have won by more than five points.

I don’t know if there was enough enthusiasm for the candidates for governor or the Senate. But there was a lot of shifting of the votes there.”

She didn’t do enough to shield herself from voters in her district. Indeed, a GOP source says she was advised to spend more of her campaign cash late in the cycle.

She noted that Gov. Jared Polis and Sen. Michael Bennet, who are both Democrats, skated to reelection. She told CNN that they definitely carried the ticket for the Democrat Party.