Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) will have to convince voters from her new district why they should send her back to Washington in Thursday’s first Republican primary debate.

Boebert made the switch to the plains of Colorado‘s 4th Congressional District across the state from her mountainous 3rd District, which she is representing for a second term after narrowly beating Democratic challenger Adam Frisch in 2022. The two were slated to go head-to-head again this year before Boebert switched to the eastern Colorado district over uncertainties of whether or not she could beat him again. Despite her new district voting for former President Donald Trump, of whom she has been a staunch supporter, by 20 percentage points in 2020, voters are not sold on the firebrand representative.

​​“She feels she is a better candidate than the ones that we have,” Republican voter Robin Varhelman, who works at a cattle auction she owns in Brush, told the Colorado Sun. “She’s gonna have to explain to people why.”

Boebert, who was first elected to the House in 2020, won in 2022 by 546 votes out of the 327,000 that were cast. The originally conservative-leaning district has become more blue in recent years. Boebert’s race for an open seat in the increasingly red 4th District may not be a clean sweep for the loyal Trump supporter, who will have to appeal to a more traditional Christian-conservative voter base.

That could prove difficult for Boebert, who has been in the public eye recently for domestic violence allegations after an altercation at a Colorado restaurant with her ex-husband. Before that, the congresswoman and a friend were kicked out of a play for vaping, groping, and being disruptive, with all of the bad behavior recorded on surveillance footage.

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Boebert will have to depend on her high-profile name and deeply conservative views if she wants to prevail over her new opponents, Republican state Reps. Richard Holtorf and Mike Lynch, and former state Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg, who have held public office in the area for years.

Boebert was not welcomed to her new district with open arms. She has been accused of being a “carpetbagger,” moving seats as nothing more than a bid to keep her job in Congress.