Defeat catches up with Boebert as Democrat flips her seat

election results are still coming in. from key races across the cotry we are. of course still keeping a close eye. on the last uncalled senate race in alaska. but meanwhile over in the house democrats have. flipped yet another suit. to add to their majority ms now can now project. that the democratic candidate. in colorado's fourth district eileen labacher. will defeat the republican incumbent. congresswoman lauren bobert colorado's fourth. district is actually the second. district bobert has represented. after narrowly winning reelection. in 2022 she moved there to run a comfortable. republican seat it wasn't so comfortable.

it turned out in 2024 trump won this seat. by 18 points now retired u .s navy rear admiral. eileen labakker has managed to flip it joining. me now is ms now chief data reporter and host. of the 11th hour and pilot all the things ally. velshi help us understand i mean this is a big. deal we would not have thought this is. the beginning of election night it is it is. races are still being called what happened. in colorado for well as you pointed out. this used to be lauren bobert's district. but she wanted to keep being lower.

and lauren bobert and thought that this was. the safer district for the reasons. that you just expressed so she goes. into the fourth district she gets challenged. by eileen laubacher who by the way 34 years i. think in the military she was a rear admiral. when she retired a republican until 2025. by the way served under. the biden administration served. on the trump administration so she runs. in this race in a relatively conservative. place and to your point take a. look. at how lauren bobert did in 2024 53 to 42. over her opponent and take a look. at how donald trump did she underperformed.

donald trump in this district. in 2024 when she first moved there. and if you look one more election. out the 2022 house ken buck outperformed. both donald trump and lauren bobert getting 61. percent to 36 .6 so this is a remarkable story. here that lauren bobert moved here she looked. physically moved her house and moved to this district. because she thought. it would be safer and the irony is the person. who replaced her in her old district jeff. heard was reelected in the third district. of colorado so not a great strategic move.

on the part of lauren bobert she will no longer. be representing colorado's fourth district. you know what they say about the state. of colorado's fourth district you know. what they say about karma okay let's talk. about um the alaska senate race. because this is still on this could be the 56th. seat for the democrats where are things. standing right now 88 % in we sort of. get an update every two days. and i think we're going to get. that one now sometime within the next couple of. hours so jump from 76 to 84 to 88 so hopefully. we get a better number here mary peltolla is. still below 50 % and that's tricky.

because once you get to 100 % if she's below. 50 then this goes to. THE BOTTOM PERSON FALLS OUT, THEIR VOTES GET REDISTRIBUTED. BASED ON WHO THE SECOND CHOICES. WERE AND IF THAT STILL DOESN'T. GET SOMEBODY TO 50%, IT HAPPENS A SECOND TIME. THE SECOND AND THIRD CHOICE IN. RANKED CHOICE VOTING are instantaneous, basically. So we think sometime between Tuesday. and Thursday, if somebody doesn't get to 50%, we'll go to rank choice voting. You do have to get to 100 % of voting. in order to go to rank choice. So that's the thing. This is slow. Alaska's got a lot of voters that are not.

on the road system. Mail takes a little longer than it does everywhere. else. So this is slow. But at some point we'll determine. if Mary Peltola has not got 50 percent, then it goes to ranked choice. But all the votes that are coming in just got. a lead of 5 ,800 votes right now. They've generally been favoring her. So I would rather be Mary Peltola. than Dan Sullivan, the Republican incumbent senator right now. Sir, people who are waiting for that 56th Senate seat, PERHAPS BY THANKSGIVING. WHAT DO WE THINK? COULD THAT HAPPEN? IT COULD HAPPEN? DOESN'T NECESSARILY.

ONE NEVER CAN THAT IS A LITTLE HARD TO TELL. THIS IS A LITTLE TRICKY BECAUSE. THEIR VOTES MISSING ALL OVER ALASKA. NOT MISSING, THAT'S THE WRONG WORD TO USE. THEIR VOTES YET TO BE COUNTED. ALL OVER ALASKA SO IT'S A LITTLE. HARD TO TELL BUT AT THE moment, everything favors Mary Peltola, but we'll see. Part of the problem with ranked choice. voting is you don't actually know where. the voters, where the two candidates, one or two candidates who have to pull out, where their second choice voters were. THE CANDIDATES, BUT YOU DON'T IN RANKED CHOICE VOTING, BY THE WAY, YOU COULD HAVE VOTED FOR ALL FOUR CANDIDATES, BUT YOU DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO.

VOTE FOR ALL FOURS. SO THIS BECOMES TRICKY. IF SHE DOESN'T GET 50%, WE WON'T KNOW UNTIL WE KNOW. ALI VELCHE, LOVE THE VEST TODAY, THE NAVY, WE ARE MATCHING SO I APPRECIATE THAT AS WELL. THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME. BEING WITH US AS ALWAYS TONIGHT. AND GIVING US AN UPDATE on everything. Thank you again. Okay, we'll be right back,