- Rep. Lauren Boebert said she is "more focused on delivering the policies I ran on."
- Boebert's constituents have urged her to tone down her rhetoric, according to the Associated Press.
GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert said she is now "more focused on delivering the policies I ran on than owing the left" in a new interview.
Boebert told the Associated Press that she wants to "bring the temperature down" and "bring unity" after her Colorado constituents urged her to tone down her rhetoric, the outlet reported.
She was one of the most vocal members of a group of Representatives who refused to support California Rep. Kevin McCarthy in his bid for speaker of the house. McCarthy won the vote for speaker on Saturday morning after 15 different votes.
Days ahead of the final vote for speaker, Boebert on Wednesday asked former President Donald Trump to request that McCarthy take his name out of consideration.
"The president needs to tell Kevin McCarthy that, 'Sir, you do not have the votes, and it's time to withdraw.'" Boebert said.
Eventually, Boebert was one of six Republicans who voted "present" on the 15th final vote which gave McCarthy the victory.
In December, GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene attacked Boebert after Boebert said that she didn't agree with Greene's decision to support McCarthy, "just like I don't believe in Russian space lasers, Jewish space lasers and all of this."
"Lauren refuses to endorse President Trump, she refuses to support Kevin McCarthy, and she childishly threw me under the bus for a cheap sound bite," Greene wrote in a tweet. Greene also took a stab at Boebert's narrow margin of victory in her November 2022 election.
Boebert survived an extraordinarily tight race for Colorado's Third Congressional District in the midterms. In November 2022, Boebert won a tight election over Democrat Adam Frisch by 546 votes in Colorado's 3rd district. Boebert told the AP that she still plans to have the same public beliefs despite the close election.
"A lot of those on the left have said: 'Look at your election, are you going to tone it down, little girl?'" she told the publication. "I'm still going to be me."