Did Rep. Boebert Get Her GED Months Before Winning Election?

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Did Rep. Boebert Get Her GED Months Before Winning Election?
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✅ True. U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert received her GED diploma a few months before winning election to the House of Representatives in 2020.

U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert received her GED diploma a few months before winning election to the House of Representatives.In January 2021, many social media users started posting messages claiming that U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert had received a GED diploma months before she was elected to congress. QAnon conspiracy theory.

Boebert talked about her education with Colorado's Durango Herald in September 2020. The then-congressional candidate said that she was a"good student" when she attended Rifle High School but that she was a new mom at the time and prioritized raising her family over her education. On her educational background, she said she never claimed to have graduated from Rifle High School. “I went to my high school,” she said.

It should also be noted that although many people have spread this factoid as a way of denigrating Boebert, the Colorado congresswoman is not the first person elected to office without a college education. According to a December 2020 report from the,"17 Members of the House have no educational degree beyond a high school diploma."

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