Colorado firebrand Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert once again echoed a racist far-right conspiracy theory that Democrats are letting droves of migrants into the country to pad their voter rolls and, rather than pushback, a One America News Network host agreed, calling it the "Great Replacement" of American voters.
In an interview that aired Friday morning on "Real America with Dan Ball," Boebert and Ball discussed familiar right-wing talking points ranging from going after the "Biden crime family" to the Nov. 5 general election.
When their discussion turned to border security, the conversation devolved into repeating long-debunked racist conspiracy theories.
Boebert said Biden "bippity, boppity booed 350,000 illegals to stay here forever."
"Just waved his fairy godmother wand and said, 'oh, well, you know, this isn't a path to citizenship, but we're not going to deport you. If you've had an asylum case that you've been waiting on, and you don't have a criminal history, well 350,000 of you — yeah, we're going to leave you alone.''"
Boebert called it "mass amnesty."
"They want these people in their voter bloc," she said, adding "from now until forever."
Boebert's comments are eerily similar to House Speaker Mike Johnson's comments earlier this month that also echoed Great Replacement Theory, a racist conspiracy idea that certain groups of people — particularly white people in Europe and North America — are being intentionally replaced by immigrants and people of different ethnic backgrounds.
“This half-measure executive order he just did actually exacerbates the problem,” Johnson told Fox News host Neil Cavuto on June 6. "He's allowing thousands of people over the border every day, before they just begin to enforce existing federal immigration law. It makes no sense. And everyone wants to know around the country, why would they do that? Because they want to turn these people into voters. That’s the only thing, the only rational explanation for what they have done.”
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The comment drew swift criticism at the time, including from Washington Post analyst Philip Bump, who said they were "just short of 'great replacement theory.'"
"The unfounded theory holds that there’s a secret plot to reshape American society by intentionally encouraging immigrants to enter the country," Bump wrote at the time.
Unlike Bump, Ball concurred with the congresswoman's assessment — and called it as he sees it: "That's exactly what it is. This is the 'Great Replacement.'"
"American voters: He's trying to replace you," said Ball. "It doesn't matter if you're liberal or conservative, if you're Black, white, brown or yellow it doesn't matter. This is what they're doing. They're importing new voters to screw you."
Boebert has shared the racist theory in the past. Denver's KUSA-TV shared a video of her in 2021 espousing the theory in which she denounced legislation that would "grant amnesty and a path to citizenship to 8 million illegal aliens."
"Yes, there is definitely a replacement theory that's going on right now," Boebert said in the video. "We are killing American jobs and bringing in illegal aliens from all over the world to replace them if Americans will not comply."
