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November 18, 2022 12:07 PM UTC

Adam Frisch, Morally Victorious, Concedes For Today

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  • by: Colorado Pols
CD-3 Democratic candidate Adam Frisch.

Yesterday’s final counting of cured and overseas ballots slashed freshman GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert’s already narrow lead over Democratic challenger Adam Frisch into the range necessary to trigger an automatic recount of the results–551 votes at the last count. Although this further delayed the final results in this race, it’s very unlikely that the recount will shift enough votes to change that result.

Recognizing this, Frisch, who nobody outside his team thought had a chance but ran a pitch-perfect centrist campaign well attuned to the district against Boebert’s high-visibility low-productivity record in office, conceded the race this morning to Boebert rather than further expend resources in a futile recount effort. Colorado Public Radio:

The closeness of the race took many in the political world by surprise, given Boebert’s national profile and the fact that Republicans hold a 9 point advantage in the district. It’s Colorado’s most expansive congressional seat, spanning western and southern Colorado and including cities such as Pueblo and Grand Junction.

Boebert’s narrow margin means the state is required to order an automatic recount.

However, no Colorado recount in recent memory has resulted in more than a few dozen votes being reassigned, and those are usual cases of poorly marked ballots where human judges have to try to interpret the voter’s intent (or, recently, because a county found ballots it failed to count the first time)…

“Colorado elections are safe, accurate, and secure,” said Frisch, adding it would be unethical for his campaign to continue accepting money from supporters. “Please save your money for your groceries, your rent, your children, and for other important causes in organizations.”

Although Boebert will get her cacophonous second term in the GOP’s teensy new U.S. House majority, the damage inflicted to her public image from this near defeat has transformed CD-3 from the sleepy GOP-leaning backwater into one of the top pickup targets for Democrats looking to reclaim the majority in two years. Frisch himself has already filed for a rematch, and after coming so close he’ll be a strong if not prohibitive contender for the nomination in 2024. Either way, Frisch has demonstrated Boebert can be defeated in this R+9 district, which was in fundamental doubt after Boebert’s easy defeat of her GOP primary challenger Don Coram.

No one believed it until Adam Frisch proved it. And for that, he’s a hero for Democrats even in defeat.

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11 thoughts on “Adam Frisch, Morally Victorious, Concedes For Today”

  2. I mean, it's not like she's going to accomplish anything for her constituents in the next 24 months. Just more performance art to feed some fragile egos, this time without Twitter as a medium. She'll just continue to bleed support, she's long since topped out in that department.

    1. It'll be interesting to see if she changes. She just had a near death experience and a couple of days where she thought she had lost. It's most likely she reverts but she's got a sweet gig right now and I think she wants to keep that very much.

  3. She will no doubt be voting in favor of the various proposals and investigations of the House members somewhat gathered around a "leader" — McCarthy and Scalise are the two names in position from last term, and I think both begin as 6 to 1 odds-on "winners" in the next session. 

    So, any bets which way she will vote on paying the US debts?  On Social Security changes? On yet another effort to repeal the ACA?  On ANY spending proposal from the White House (including Ukraine aid). 

    And with the on-going impacts of partisanship's connections to vaccination, and therefore to COVID deaths, the margin of registrations will shift even further to Democratic (holding their own) and Unaffiliated voters (growing steadily).  See one study — National Bureau of Economic Research: Excess Death Rates for Republicans and Democrats During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    1. She’ll parrot whatever the MAGAts tell her to do. So… no on paying debt, no on ACA, screw anyone on Social security, including her own family members..Etc . Sigh. So close.

  6. Is this unusual, to concede before the mandated recount even occurs?  I mean, they are going to do the recount regardless, right?

    Trying to understand the context.  I feel like he owes it to his supporters to stick to it until the end.  He could have expressed faith in the system and understanding the long odds without conceding, right?  Was he trying to leverage the attention before it fades?

     

    In any case, hats off to him.  I heard him make his case early, when lots of people thought he was nuts.  And I though, yeah, you’ve got a point.  And good on him for landing a slingshot stone right on the MAGAt’s forehead.  But in the same vein, don’t be deluded, he exploited a very specific schism of unhappy local Republicans.

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