劳伦·博伯特(Lauren Boebert)是科罗拉多州美国国会共和党候选人，她的前高级助手在唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)总统的政治圈迅速崛起。去年，她在Facebook的一段视频中主持了一个自称为“骄傲的男孩”(Proud Boys)成员的活动，她在视频中称该组织“支持一切让美国变得伟大的东西”。
《骄傲的男孩》是极右翼极端组织与暴力行为联系在一起，其中一些成员最近与白人至上主义团体有关联。
的主要组织者团结右派集会根据反诽谤联盟的说法，2017年在弗吉尼亚州夏洛茨维尔，一名反对者被杀，他是一名前骄傲男孩成员。
特朗普最近在9月份的第一次总统辩论后面临民主党和共和党的激烈批评，当时他说，该团体应该“退后，袖手旁观”回应谴责该团体和白人至上的呼吁。
在对美国广播公司新闻的一份声明中，伯特的竞选团队说，“劳伦谴责一切形式的暴力和种族主义，与骄傲的男孩们没有任何联系。就你的组织而言，以任何方式将劳伦与骄傲男孩联系在一起都是完全不负责任的。劳伦多次公开表示种族主义在美国没有立足之地。”
骄傲男孩的成员听到特朗普的辩论信息是一种虚拟的认可，并在网上庆祝。在稍后接受福克斯新闻的肖恩·哈尼蒂采访时，特朗普反悔说，“我谴责骄傲的男孩们。我对《傲骨少年》了解不多，几乎一无所知，但我谴责这一点。”
舍罗纳·毕晓普在脸书页面上的视频日期是2019年9月20日，她与伯特一起工作了一年多。毕晓普定期主持现场视频，并经常邀请客人在吐槽屏幕上讨论保守政治。其中包括一个名叫罗布的骄傲男孩，他描述了一群抗议者聚集在丹佛地区移民拘留中心的一名典狱长的家外面，还有“四五个”其他的骄傲男孩去进行反抗议。
毕晓普在视频结束时说:“感谢上帝，你们和骄傲的男孩们。”
美国妈妈/脸书
舍罗纳·毕晓普2019年9月在脸书上的视频截图，其中一名自豪男孩的成员被识别为“罗布”。
伯特的传播主任劳拉·卡诺回应说，主教的观点“不属于劳伦·伯特的竞选活动。”在给美国广播公司新闻的短信中，毕晓普说她不再参加竞选了。
她和卡诺都没有说这是什么时候发生的，或者是不是因为这个故事而改变了。
根据竞选团队的官方通信，毕晓普最近在7月份才担任竞选经理，从未宣布过其他竞选经理。毕晓普在今年Boebert的突破时刻担任最高助手，当时她在初选中击败了五届任期的共和党现任众议员斯科特·蒂普顿。尽管蒂普顿获得了总统的支持，但伯特在很大程度上传达了蒂普顿对特朗普不够忠诚的信息。
初选结果震惊了全国各地的政治观察家，她现在正与民主党人黛安·米特什·布什(Diane Mitsch Bush)展开激烈竞争，黛安·布什是前州议员兼大学教授。博伯特在科罗拉多州的西坡拥有一家餐馆，那里的服务员臀部携带枪支。这家餐馆在20世纪90年代初成为头条新闻新冠肺炎大流行当它拒绝遵守州健康限制时。
在以前的帖子中，毕晓普声称“非法移民正在给我们的国家带来一系列疾病”，气候变化是一个“骗局”。她表达了反疫苗的观点，并分享了俄罗斯政府资助的网站rt的故事。据美国官员称，RT是一家国有宣传机构，在该国扰乱2016年美国总统选举的努力中发挥了核心作用。
伯特本人因参与阴谋论而招致批评。伯特出现在一个QAnon友好五月份的播客叫做“钢铁真相”。“我所听到的关于Q的一切，我希望这是真的，”她说。
“因为这只能说明美国越来越强大，越来越好，人们正在回归保守的价值观。”
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2020年10月10日，科罗拉多州科洛纳市，科罗拉多州第三国会选区众议院席位的共和党候选人劳伦·博伯特在竞选集会上向支持者发表讲话。
科罗拉多州第三国会选区(Congressional District)的竞选活动与特朗普和前副总统乔·拜登(Joe Biden)之间的文化冲突有着惊人的相似之处。该选区既有蒸汽船泉(Steamboat Springs)等自由主义滑雪小镇，也有格兰德枢纽(Grand Joint)等共和党据点。
伯特经常举行无面具集会，并在推特上无情地称她的对手为“社会主义者”、“激进左翼”和“地下室布什”的一部分。她收集了数千条支持特朗普的微博，以及对众议院议长南希·佩洛西(Nancy Pelosi)和众议员亚历山大·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯(Alexander Ocasio-Cortez)等全国民主党人的攻击。
特朗普邀请伯特(Boebert)参加8月份在白宫举行的总统提名接受演讲，并出席了总统在拉什莫尔山举行的7月4日庆祝活动。
与此同时，布什反对解散警察，最近得到了科罗拉多州众议院共和党前议长拉塞尔·乔治的支持。她在竞选中采取了一种更低调的方式，并在科罗拉多州的立法机构中宣传自己是一名务实的老兵，专注于该地区的具体问题，比如改造新冠肺炎世界的当地旅游业，以及在一个数万个工作岗位依赖煤炭、石油和天然气的地区建设更绿色的经济。
据一位竞选发言人说，布什的竞选活动完全是虚拟的。
布什的竞选经理阿什利·奎尼维尔(Ashley Quenneville)在对美国广播公司(ABC News)的一份声明中表示:“劳伦·博伯特(Lauren Boebert)与暴力极端分子的密切关系令人厌恶，并剥夺了他的资格。根据联邦调查局的说法，科罗拉多人应该有一个代表来团结我们，而不是把自己与构成国内恐怖威胁的白人至上主义仇恨团体联系在一起。伯特应该谴责“骄傲的男孩”和所有其他白人至上主义团体，支持她竞选的国家团体——包括NRCC和CLF——必须立即撤回支持。”
该地区的投票有限，但内特·西尔弗的支持率为538%有比赛吗就像“掷硬币”
该地区在2016年投票给特朗普，52%-40%。科罗拉多州的选民本周开始收到邮寄的选票。
GOP candidate's former campaign chief: Thank God for Proud Boys
The former top aide to Lauren Boebert, a Republican candidate for U.S. Congress in Colorado on a meteoric rise within President Donald Trump's political sphere, hosted a self-proclaimed member of the Proud Boys on a Facebook video last year in which she described the group as "pro everything that makes America great."
The Proud Boys isa far-right extremist grouptied to acts of violence, some of whose members have recently been connected to white supremacist groups.
The primary organizer of theUnite The Right rallyin Charlottesville, Virginia -- where one counterprotester was killed -- in 2017 was a former Proud Boys member, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
Trump recently faced intense criticism from Democrats and Republicans alike after the first presidential debate in September when he said the group should "stand back and stand by" in response to calls to denounce the group and white supremacy.
In a statement to ABC News, Boebert's campaign said, "Lauren denounces all forms of violence and racism, and has no connection whatsoever with the Proud Boys. Connecting Lauren in any way with the Proud Boys on the part your organization would be wholly irresponsible. Lauren has been on the record multiple times saying that racism has no place in America."
Members of the Proud Boys heard Trump's debate message as a virtual endorsement and celebrated online. In a later interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity, Trump backtracked and said, "I condemn the Proud Boys. I don't know much about the Proud Boys, almost nothing, but I condemn that."
The video on the Facebook page of Sherronna Bishop, who worked alongside Boebert for more than a year is dated Sept. 20, 2019. Bishop regularly hosts live videos and often includes guests on a spit screen function to discuss conservative politics. This one includes a Proud Boy only identified as Rob describing a group of protesters gathering outside the home of a warden of a Denver-area immigration detention center "and four or five" other Proud Boys going to counter-protest.
Bishop concludes the video by saying "thank god for you guys and the Proud Boys."
A screen shot of Sherronna Bishop's September 2019 Facebook video with a member of the Proud Boys identified as "Rob."
Boebert's Communications Director Laura Carno responded by saying Bishop's views "were not part of Lauren Boebert's campaign." In a text message to ABC News, Bishop said she was no longer with the campaign.
Neither her nor Carno would say when that occurred or if it changed in reaction to this story.
Bishop was campaign manager as recently as July, according to official communications from the campaign, and no other campaign manager has ever been announced. Bishop served as top aide during Boebert's breakout moment this year when she upset five-term Republican incumbent Rep. Scott Tipton during the primary. Boebert largely ran on the message that Tipton wasn't loyal enough to Trump, despite Tipton earning the endorsement from the president.
The primary result shocked political observers across the country and she is now in a close race against Democrat Diane Mitsch Bush, a former state lawmaker and university professor. Boebert owns a restaurant in Colorado's Western Slope, where servers carry firearms on their hips. The restaurant made headlines early in theCOVID-19 pandemicwhen it refused to abide by state health restrictions.
In previous posts, Bishop claims that "illegal Immigrants are bringing a range of diseases into our country" and that climate change is a "hoax." She expresses anti-vaccine opinions and shares stories from RT, a Russian government-funded website and, according to U.S. officials, a state-run propaganda outlet that played a central role in the country's effort to disrupt the U.S. 2016 presidential election.
Boebert herself has drawn criticism for engaging in conspiracy theories. Boebert appeared on aQAnon-friendlypodcast called "Steel Truth" in May. "Everything that I've heard of Q, I hope that this is real," she said.
"Because it only means that America is getting stronger and better, and people are returning to conservative values."
Lauren Boebert, the Republican candidate for the House of Representatives seat in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District, addresses supporters during a campaign rally in Colona, Colo., Oct. 10, 2020.
The race in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District, home to both liberal ski towns like Steamboat Springs and Republican strongholds like Grand Junction, has remarkably similar qualities to that of the culture clash between Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden.
Boebert regularly holds maskless rallies and is relentless on Twitter, where she calls her opponent a "socialist," part of the "radical left" and "Basement Bush." She collects thousands of retweets in her supportive messages of Trump and attacks on national Democrats like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Trump invited Boebert to his presidential nomination acceptance speech at the White House in August and attended the president's Fourth of July celebration at Mount Rushmore.
Meanwhile, Bush has opposed defunding the police and recently landed the endorsement of Republican former speaker of the Colorado House Russell George. She has taken a quieter approach to her campaign and advertises herself as a pragmatic veteran in Colorado's legislature, zeroing in on issues specific to the district, such as revamping local tourism in the COVID-19 world and a greener economy in an area where tens of thousands of jobs rely upon coal, oil and gas.
Bush's campaign events are entirely virtual, according to a campaign spokesperson.
Bush's campaign manager Ashley Quenneville said in a statement to ABC News: "Lauren Boebert's close relationship with violent extremists is disgusting and disqualifying. Coloradans deserve a representative who will unite us—not associate herself with white supremacist hate groups that pose a domestic terrorist threat according to the FBI. Boebert should denounce the Proud Boys and all other white supremacist groups, and the national groups propping up her campaign—including the NRCC and CLF—must withdraw their support immediately."
Polling in the district is limited, but Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEighthas the raceas a "toss up."
The district voted for Trump, 52%-40%, in 2016. Voters in Colorado began receiving their ballots in the mail this week.
