A video of a Democratic strategist suggesting Lauren Boebert should join OnlyFans if she loses her Colorado District 3 Senate race has gone viral.
Kurt Bardella, who serves as a strategist for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and Democratic National Committee, made the suggestion while speaking to MSNBC's Joy Reid.
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Reid and Bardella were discussing how close the race is between Boebert and her Democratic opponent, Adam Frisch. It is being intensely watched because the two candidates can barely be separated.
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Democratic strategist Kurt Bardella on what Rep. Lauren Boebert (R) will do if she loses her tight race in Colorado:
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“I guess it might be a gain for OnlyFans.” pic.twitter.com/2YwOoeJJVq
According to the Associated Press, after 99 percent of votes had been counted, Adam Frisch held a tentative lead with 156,746 votes to Boebert's 156,682.
The video of Bardella was posted on Twitter on Thursday evening and has so far has been viewed more than 620,000 times.
Reid asked: "If Lauren Boebert, the second most popular QAnon congressperson in MAGA, what if she loses?
"What job will she have? I don't think Shooters [Boebert's recently closed restaurant] exists anymore?"
Bardella replied: "Well, I guess it might be a gain for OnlyFans, I don't know what she would do in this scenario."
Reid then bursted out laughing before Bardella continued.
He said: "I think that symbolically, to take out one of the poster childs of the MAGA movement, someone who has been an absolute disgrace to the office that she holds, would be a great feather in the cap.
"I think that it would cement the fact that this has been an absolutely unmitigated disaster for the MAGA wing in the Republican party."
Boebert has faced significant mockery as the race has been closer than anticipated and she is currently trailing.
Seen as a rising modern-day conservative star and facing reelection for the first time on Tuesday night, Boebert had for weeks been warning of the looming momentum of the political movement former President Donald Trump had inspired.
She said it threatened to kneecap the final two years of Democratic President Joe Biden's first term and that it would restore a conservative majority to Congress.
"It's going to be a red wave!" she tweeted before election day two years ago when Republicans clawed back several seats from the Democrats' House majority. Before then, she pointed to the recall of a progressive San Francisco district attorney as a sign of the shifting tide in U.S. politics, and claimed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi "knows she's losing the gavel."
As of Wednesday morning, however, the red wave Boebert predicted had not only subsided—it may have almost disappeared.
Newsweek contacted Lauren Boebert for comment.
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