U.S. Rep. Ken Buck will step down from Congress on March 22, he announced Tuesday, setting the stage for a special election in a year when his expected departure already had set off a race to succe…
U.S. Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., arrives for an intelligence briefing by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC,, on Feb. 15, 2024. U.S. Rep. Ken Buck will step down from Congress on March 22, he announced Tuesday, setting the stage for a special election in a year when his expected departure already
Either way, Buck’s announcement has complicated the race for the large field that includes U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, a fellow Republican who is seeking to change from her current seat on Colorado’s Western Slope.that he would not seek reelection to the position but would serve through the end of this term. The rare open seat, in a deeply conservative district, immediately drew a frenzy of candidates.
In an interview, Holtorf noted that Buck, who formerly led the state Republican Party, would understand how his early departure would cause disarray through compressed timelines, competing caucus processes and voters navigating multiple elections for the same seat. Voters in the district would then choose Buck’s short-term replacement in a separate ballot question from the party primary races. If Boebert were to win the special election, she’d have to step down from her 3rd District seat early.
U.S. Rep. Ken Buck leaves a House Republican caucus meeting at the Capitol on Oct. 16, 2023, in Washington, D.C. shortly after his announcement, Buck said the current session of Congress “is the worst year of the nine years and three months that I’ve been in Congress.” He also said he wouldn’t meddle in picking his successor. But he indicated, without offering specifics, that he hopes to play a role more broadly in improving electoral politics in the U.S.
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