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Democrat concedes to Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert in extremely tight election contest
Democratic challenger Adam Frisch has conceded to Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert in the election contest for Colorado's 3rd Congressional District.
Unofficial results indicate that out of more than 327,000 votes, Boebert leads by a bit more than 550 votes. When the difference in votes for the top two candidates is less than or equal to 0.5% of the vote tally for the leading candidate, an automatic recount is required in the state — the Associated Press is refraining from calling the contest until the results of the anticipated recount are revealed.
Frisch said on Friday that the chance of the recount changing more than a small number of votes is slim and that he had already spoken to Boebert to concede the contest. "Colorado elections are safe, accurate, and secure," he said.
"Adam Frisch called me to concede this race," Boebert tweeted on Friday. "I look forward to getting past election season and focusing on conservative governance in the House majority. Time to get to work!" Boebert has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2021.
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Republicans won the majority in the House during the 2022 midterm elections, which means they will control the chamber during the 118th Congress.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is the only woman ever to serve as House speaker, announced on Thursday that she will not pursue reelection to Democratic leadership, though she will remain in office as a member of Congress — Pelosi, who has served as a lawmaker for more than three decades, won another term during the 2022 elections.
"The Pelosi era is over. Good riddance!" Boebert tweeted on Thursday.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California, the current House minority leader, won the GOP nomination to serve as House speaker during the 118th Congress — the vote was 188-31, according to reports. In order to officially clinch the speakership, McCarthy will need to win a majority during a House vote in January.
Democrat candidate allegedly blackmailed by local businessman over extramarital affair: 'In a storage unit?'
A former business owner in Aspen, Colorado, has come forward with what he says is proof that he once successfully blackmailed a prominent Democratic candidate who was then on the Aspen City Council.
In an exclusive bombshell report from Breitbart, Todd Gardner alleged that he had video evidence that, several years ago, Adam Frisch — who is now running for Congress against Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) — had conducted an extramarital affair in a storage unit that Gardner rented to "a very well-known" local female resident.
In May 2017, while Frisch was a member of the Aspen City Council, Gardner claimed that Frisch held an assignation with the woman on the business property where Gardner rented several storage units and ran a small taxi business called High Mountain Taxi. After Gardner spotted Frisch in the parking lot and saw him follow the unnamed woman into the storage unit she rented, Gardner asked his business manager to go investigate.
Sure enough, Gardner recalled, "[M]y general manager saw Adam having sex with the woman that rented the storage unit. My general manager came back upstairs and came running into the office and was red and laughing hysterically.
"We continued to laugh hysterically in the office for quite some time," Gardner continued. "I called a few of my buddies, and they got a laugh out of it. Sex in a storage unit? Who wouldn’t?"
Then a year later, when the city council began to consider a proposal which would have impacted his taxi business, Gardner said he emailed Frisch and threatened to expose the affair if Frisch voted to support the proposal.
"I’ve attached a short video clip from our security system you might be interested in," Gardner wrote at the bottom of the initial email, which included security footage of Frisch meeting up with the woman at the storage unit. Breitbart claimed to have seen at least some of the emails that were exchanged between Gardner and Frisch over the next several months, though no images of any such emails were included in its report.
The proposal eventually failed in early 2019, and Gardner said he considered Frisch to be the "swing vote" against it. And now Gardner, who insisted he "can’t stand" Boebert, claimed he shared the security footage with her campaign and with Breitbart because he is worried that Frisch would sell his vote if he were ever elected to Congress.
"Adam has no integrity," Gardner said on camera.
"Adam's for sale," he added later.
Boebert expressed similar concerns. "My opponent was caught having an affair in a storage unit, shaken down by a cab driver & then sold out his vote as a sitting city council member to hide his secret," she tweeted on Thursday. "Imagine what Pelosi & the DC lobbyists will do with him! Aspen Adam’s vote is for sale!"
\u201cMy opponent was caught having an affair in a storage unit, shaken down by a cab driver & then sold out his vote as a sitting city council member to hide his secret. \n\nImagine what Pelosi & the DC lobbyists will do with him! \n\nAspen Adam\u2019s vote is for sale! https://t.co/WLNjqXwt1h\u201d— Lauren Boebert (@Lauren Boebert) 1665680151
As Gardner has since moved to northern California, he has no direct interest in the race and cannot vote to affect the outcome.
"My only interest in getting this out there is one: Adam is a piece of crap and all he’s going to do is go to Washington and screw more women," Gardner stated. "But I just don’t want to see the conservative party lose another vote. We need the vote. Adam is a rubber stamp for the left."
Breitbart's video is not available to share. Breitbart stated that Frisch's campaign has not yet responded to the allegations.
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