The leading Democratic challenger to Lauren Boebert raised $3.4 million in the third quarter, a mega haul that comes as the GOP congresswoman has faced widespread criticism over her public conduct

• Democrat Adam Frisch raised nearly $3.4 million in Q3 in his quest to defeat Lauren Boebert in 2024.

• Frisch has so far raised about $4.4 million in the fight for Colorado's 3rd Congressional District.

• The district has a Republican lean, but Boebert's controversies have helped make the race a tossup.

The leading Democratic candidate running against Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado in 2024 raised nearly $3.4 million in the third quarter, according to recent campaign finance reports.

For Adam Frisch, who lost to Boebert last year in the closest House race in the country in 2022, the fundraising figure is a blockbuster sum which ensures that Democrats will remain focused on flipping the 3rd Congressional district — which leans Republican but nearly went blue last year.

"I am deeply humbled by the over 100,000 individual donations that were made to our campaign this quarter to defeat Lauren Boebert," Frisch said in a statement on Thursday. "Western and Southern Colorado deserve a representative who will work hard to deliver results and put the needs of the district first, not an extreme political agenda."

Per Frisch's campaign, the average donation to his campaign in the third quarter was about $32.

Frisch, a former Aspen city councilman, has so far raised nearly $4.4 million for the race, compared to Boebert's roughly $1.6 million haul, according to Federal Elections Commission financial summaries.

Boebert — who also faces challengers in the GOP primary — has not yet released for fundraising figures for the third quarter.

In campaigning for the seat, Frisch has sought to project himself as a moderate Democrat who would be a bridge-builder for the district, as opposed to Boebert's more controversial tenure on Capitol Hill.

Since Boebert was first elected to Congress in 2020, she has become one of the party's most visible conservatives in the lower chamber and has been a firm supporter of former President Donald Trump.

Last month, Boebert found herself under the media glare once again after she was kicked out of a Denver theater for vaping during a performance of the "Beetlejuice" musical. Another video of the congresswoman appeared to show her being fondled by her date.

Shortly after the incident, Frisch told MSNBC's Symone Sanders-Townsend that the Denver incident was "another notch in the belt of embarrassment."

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