Julianna Goldman, Columnist

If Lauren Boebert Loses, Abortion Will Be the Main Reason

Democrat Adam Frisch is close to defeating one of the most extreme members of Congress, and he thinks he can explain why.

November 10, 2022 at 5:30 PM UTC

By Julianna Goldman

Julianna Goldman is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist who was formerly a Washington-based correspondent for CBS News and White House correspondent for Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Television.

Lauren Boebert on the campaign trail last summer — in Illinois.
Photographer: Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images North America

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Adam Frisch doesn’t want to “get ahead of our skis,” but as a ski racer, he’s still making plans to go to Washington. That’s because he’s come closer than anyone expected to pulling off the biggest upset of the 2022 election: unseating one of the most extreme members of Congress, MAGA flamethrower Lauren Boebert of Colorado.

We spoke the morning after Election Day, as he awaited the final votes to be counted in the state’s 3rd Congressional District, which national Democrats and election trackers wrote off as solidly Republican. As of this writing, he is leading by a few dozen votes out of more than 300,000 cast. With the race appearing to be headed toward an automatic recount, Frisch told me that he was able to defy the odds largely because of one issue: abortion.