‘People are sick and tired’: the man challenging far-right extremist Lauren Boebert

Frisch has attracted national attention, but some people in his district feel they don’t ‘know’ him. Photograph: David Zalubowski/AP

Adam Frisch is in his second congressional campaign, crossing and re-crossing Colorado’s third US House district, a space bigger than Pennsylvania. Thirteen months out from election day, time is one thing he does not lack. But Frisch has a unique way of counting it anyway: before and after Beetlejuice.

“Before Beetlejuice,” the Democrat says, of polling in his Republican-leaning district, “we were up by two points, Trump was up five.”