{"id":2283656,"date":"2024-06-25T22:38:53","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T02:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/greg-lopez-to-serve-out-remainder-of-ken-buck-term-in-the-house-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-06-25T22:40:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T02:40:53","slug":"greg-lopez-to-serve-out-remainder-of-ken-buck-term-in-the-house-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/greg-lopez-to-serve-out-remainder-of-ken-buck-term-in-the-house-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Lopez to serve out remainder of Ken Buck term in the House &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgreg-lopez-to-serve-out-remainder-of-ken-buck-term-in-the-house-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2283656&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Republican Greg Lopez, a\u2063 former mayor of Parker, Colorado, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-continuous-media-covid-fear-mongering-may-backfire-and-diminish-democrat-voter-turnout\/\" title=\"The Continuous Media COVID Fear Mongering May BACKFIRE and Diminish Democrat Voter Turnout\">won<\/a> a \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/latest-poll-majority-of-americans-want-republican-party-to-control-the-senate-sean-hannity\/\" title=\"LATEST POLL: Majority of Americans Want Republican Party to Control the Senate | Sean Hannity\">special election<\/a> \u2064to fill \u200dthe remaining term of Rep. Ken Buck in the House. The Associated Press declared Lopez the\u2062 winner just 32 minutes after the\u2064 polls closed on a\u2062 Tuesday, with\u2062 57.3% of the vote and 79% of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-big-tech-and-media-actions-to-steal-the-election-heres-whats-going-on-in-pennsylvania-and-michigan\/\" title=\"Democrat, Big Tech and Media Actions to Steal the Election \u2013 Here\u2019s What\u2019s Going on in Pennsylvania and Michigan\">votes counted<\/a> in Colorado\u2019s\u2062 4th District. Lopez defeated \u2064three other\u200b candidates, following Buck&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/espns-stephen-a-smith-apologizes-after-saying-shohei-ohtanis-need-for-an-interpreter-is-harming-the-game\/\" title=\"ESPN\u2019s Stephen A. Smith Apologizes After Saying Shohei Ohtani\u2019s Need For An Interpreter Is \u2018Harming The Game\u2019\">early departure<\/a> from Congress on March 22.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Republican Greg Lopez won a special election to serve out the remainder of Rep. Ken Buck\u2019s (R-CO) term in the House.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Associated Press<\/em> called the race for Lopez, a former Parker, <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/colorado\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Colorado<\/a>, mayor, 32 minutes after polls closed on Tuesday, defeating three other candidates to replace Buck, who left Congress early on March 22. The former mayor won 57.3% of the vote, with 79% of votes counted in Colorado\u2019s 4th District.<\/p>\n<p>The special election only determines who will serve in Buck\u2019s seat until January. A separate primary held on Tuesday will help decide who represents the seat for a full two years in the next Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez opted not to compete in the primary and will step down when Buck\u2019s full-term successor is sworn into Congress at the start of next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not coming up here, you know, saying \u2018I want to change the world,\u2019\u201d Lopez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/2974813\/greg-lopez-colorado-gop-ken-buck\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em><\/a>  in April. \u201cI\u2019m coming up here \u2014 I feel like I\u2019ve been called to duty. I\u2019m a veteran. And so I\u2019ve been called to duty, and I\u2019m going to honor that duty to the best of my ability, and then I get to go home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), who currently represents the 3rd district, was the front-runner heading into the race for a full term after switching districts to avoid another hard-fought battle against Adam Frisch, her Democratic opponent in 2022 who came within 546 votes of defeating her.<\/p>\n<p>Boebert is facing several Republican opponents in the GOP primary, including state Reps. Mike Lynch and Richard Holtorf, talk radio host Deborah Flora, former state Senate President Pro Tempore Jerry Sonnenberg, and banking executive Peter Yu. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lopez\u2019s win gives House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) an extra vote amid a narrow House GOP majority. The party\u2019s margins improved slightly on Tuesday when Rep. Michael Rulli, the replacement for another congressman who retired, was sworn into the House.<\/p>\n<p>Democrat Trisha Calvarese, Libertarian Hannah Goodman, and Frank Atwood of the Approval Voting Party were Lopez\u2019s opponents in the special election. <\/p>\n<p><em>Rachel Schilke contributed to this story.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Greg Lopez, former mayor of Parker, Colorado, won a special election to complete Rep. Ken Buck\u2019s term in the House. The Associated Press declared Lopez the winner 32 minutes after polls closed on Tuesday. 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