Colorado’s Lamborn Won’t Seek Reelection to Congress
WASHINGTON — Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., a nine-term congressman representing one of the most Republican-friendly districts in the state, said Friday that he won’t run for reelection in 2024.
His announcement means that all three seats in Colorado’s congressional delegation currently held by Republicans will be open this year.
It also comes just a day after another senior Republican, Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, R-Mo., somewhat surprised his colleagues by announcing he plans to retire at the end of the current Congress.
In an interview Friday morning on Colorado’s KVOR-AM radio, Lamborn told morning show host Richard Randall that at age 69 he simply came to the conclusion that he isn’t “getting any younger” and wanted to do other things with his life.
“I want to spend time with my children, grandchildren … with my wife. I want to look for opportunities to do good,” he said.
An attorney by profession, Lamborn served in the Colorado House and Senate before winning election to his first term in Congress in 2006.
Like Luetkemeyer’s district in Missouri, Lamborn’s district in the Colorado Springs area is considered a conservative stronghold in an increasingly blue area.
While Lamborn’s seat is reliably Republican, his impending departure mean Colorado’s Republican congressional delegation will undergo a nearly complete turnover next year.
Rep. Ken Buck announced in November that he wouldn’t seek reelection, and just last week Rep. Lauren Boebert said she plans to forgo a bid for reelection in her western Colorado district to run for Buck’s seat on the more conservative Eastern Plains.
Colorado’s other five members of the House are Democrats, as are its two U.S. senators.
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