Colorado Rep.Lauren Boebertappeared to suggest that God helped her stand up to newly elected Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
At a women’s conference at a Dallas church over the weekend, Boebert — also a Republican — seemingly referred to McCarthy asone of her “demons.”
“Maybe He’ll have you ball up your fists and have you stand in front of some demons … maybe a speaker of the House,” she said prompting cheers from the audience as they rose to their feet.
Boebertrecently made wavesas one of the Republicans who held out supporting McCarthy in the House speaker election, forcing ahistoric 15 rounds of votingbefore McCarthy finally clinched the win.
“See now, Ialsostood up against Nanci Pelosi,” she joked quickly afterward, “so nobody knows what I meant there, for the record, before they put this in print.”
Rep. Lauren Boebert.Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
McCarthyhad made a number of his own concessionsto far-right members of his party to bid for the role.
“We started hearing lies about the meeting, that we came in asking for a personal wish list, nothing for the good of the country,” Boebert said, also sharing that she prayed that PresidentJoe Bidenwould exit Washington.
“Let his days be few and another take his office,” Boebert said of the president. “Unfortunately, he does have a really great insurance policy namedKamala Harris.”
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Since Boebert was elected in 2020, theDonald Trumpally has made national news various times for how she has handled controversial issues such as gun laws and COVID restrictions. She is one of 147 Republican members of Congress who objected to certifying the electoral vote count after the deadlyJan. 6, 2021, attackon the U.S. Capitol.
Last June, Boebert thanked former President Trump for the “massive victories for religious liberty, Second Amendment rights, and the pro-life movement” that came out of theSupreme Court decisionsoverRoe v. Wade.
Boebert has also criticized Secretary of TransportationPete Buttigiegfor taking parental leave after he and his husband, Chasten Buttigieg,welcomed twins Penelope Rose and Joseph August Buttigieg to their family.
“The guy was gone. The guy was not working! Because why? He was trying to figure out how to chest feed,“Boebert said in a November 2021 video, before going on to say that “ain’t nobody got time for two and a half months” of parental leave.
source: people.com
