For years, Lauren Boebert has built her brand on picking fights and never backing down.
But after a nail-biter of a midterm race, the MAGA firebrand ended up on the receiving end of a jab she likely never saw coming.
It didn’t come from anyone on the ballot. It came from Hillary Clinton, a woman Boebert tangled with earlier this year, and one who clearly hasn’t forgotten a single second of it.
All it took was two words. Within hours, one post racked up millions of views, and the internet crowned a winner in a feud most people assumed was long over.
To see why it landed so hard, rewind to Election Day on Nov. 3.
Boebert was defending Colorado’s 4th Congressional District, long considered one of the state’s safest Republican seats.
She moved there in 2024 after barely surviving her old district by just 546 votes two years earlier. The switch was supposed to save her career.
Instead, CNN projected that Democrat Eileen Laubacher, a retired Navy rear admiral who served more than three decades and campaigned on affordability, would flip the seat and end the Trump ally’s time in Congress.
Boebert wasn’t having it. In a video posted to X, she declared, “Election week isn’t finished!.” She even urged everyone to “finish counting every vote and hearing every voice before declaring anything.”
A community note on X quickly landed under her clip. It pointed out that she trailed Laubacher by more than 3,200 votes with roughly 98 percent of ballots counted.
That margin was wider than the automatic recount threshold, with too few votes left to close the gap.
Then Clinton swooped in with her own take. The former secretary of state reposted CNN’s headline projecting Boebert’s defeat on Nov. 10.
She captioned it with “Bye, Felicia,” a line taken from Ice Cube’s 1995 cult classic “Friday.”
Her replies are always limited; therefore, only select accounts could respond. Still, the post has since pulled in more than 2.4 million views, 73,000 likes and 8,300 reposts.
The shade wasn’t random. The pair clashed earlier this year when Boebert allegedly shared a photo from Clinton’s closed-door Epstein deposition with conservative media.
Clinton threatened to walk out of the session over it, calling it “just typical behavior.”
This time around, her fans were living for the payback. “This is the best Tweet of the year. Hands down,” one user wrote.
Another declared, “Secretary Clinton won the Internet,” while a third wondered, “Why is she so funny?”
Others couldn’t get over the locked comments. “Fabulous line and I’m not at all surprised, Hillary switched off replies,” one person laughed.
Under Boebert’s video, one commenter pointed out the irony: “Your party is always screaming and crying about how election results take too long… Why do we have to wait a whole week for you to concede?”
Boebert still isn’t budging. She spoke to reporters outside the U.S. Capitol on Nov. 11 and brushed off questions about conceding.
“The votes aren’t in. So why would I concede if the votes aren’t all in?” she told Scripps News, according to CBS News.
In the same breath, she revealed that she won’t run for the seat again in 2028 if Laubacher’s lead holds. She also complained about the outside cash poured into the race, saying, “There’s a lot of money dumped on my head.”
Boebert has said she is waiting on the remaining military and overseas ballots, with a final count hoped for by the end of the week.
“Whatever comes of that, then we’ll accept that and move forward in whatever way,” she said.
This isn’t the first time Boebert has landed herself in hot water. Last year, she sparked outrage for accusing Black Texas Rep. Al Green of shaking a “pimp cane” at Trump during his address to Congress. She then doubled down on the remark instead of apologizing.
Clinton, meanwhile, has been on a roll. She recently got under Trump’s skin by mocking his gold-heavy White House makeover. It set the president off and led him to fire back with a petty swipe at her “house.”
For now, Boebert is still waiting on the final count. Clinton, it seems, has already said her goodbyes.
Bye, Felicia. https://t.co/KJs33ipKZw
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) November 10, 2026
