These are the 11 declared Republican candidates running in Colorado’s open 4th Congressional District, which has been represented for five terms by GOP U.S. Rep. Ken Buck, who announced he isn’t seeking reelection on Nov. 1, 2023.

Fundraising totals reflect campaign finance filings with the Federal Election Commission through Dec. 31, 2023 and are rounded to the nearest thousand dollars. Candidates who entered the race after the most recent deadline won’t report activity until April.

Candidates are listed in the order they made their candidacies official.

Justin Schreiber

Declared candidacy: Dec. 13, 2022

Website: justinschreiberforcongress.com

Residence: Limon

Total funds raised: $0

Cash on hand: $0

Route to ballot: Unknown

Background: The first-time candidate is a disabled Army combat veteran who considers himself a constitutional activist.

Quote: “Government oversight, tyrannical measures and spying has no place in a free society, especially the United States of America. All political prisoners must be released immediately, and the Constitutional Republic restored! This is America and we should be acting as such.”

Fast fact: Schreiber was the first Republican candidate to sign the Colorado Libertarian Party’s pledge, drafted as part of an agreement between the minor party and the state GOP not to run potential spoiler candidates in competitive races if the likely Republican nominee agrees to abide by the Libertarians’ principles.

Trent Leisy

Declared candidacy: Oct. 13, 2023

Website: trentleisy.com

Residence: Windsor

Total funds raised: $118,000

Cash on hand: $99,000

Route to ballot: Petition and assembly

Background: A Navy veteran, Leisy runs an agricultural seed company with clients across five states, as well as a social media company that promotes the America First agenda. He is a member of the Weld County Council and a former member of the Weld RE-4 School Board.

Quote: “I am ready to go to Washington and to be your representative, not a career politician. If you ever hear me say I’m a career politician, fire me. I want to serve alongside President Trump to restore and to fix what’s going on in this country. We need to preserve this constitutional republic for our children and future generations to come.”

Fast fact: Leisy, who calls himself the MAGA King and sells T-shirts that proclaim Donald Trump is the “Sexiest Man Alive,” vowed last year to introduce legislation to add Trump’s face to Mount Rushmore.

Deborah Flora

Declared candidacy: Nov 2, 2023

Website: deborahflora.com

Residence: Douglas County

Total funds raised: $173,000

Cash on hand: $134,000

Route to ballot: Petition and assembly

Background: The documentary filmmaker and nonprofit head grew up on Lowry Air Force Base, where her father was stationed, and moved back to Douglas County after pursuing a career in the entertainment industry in California, where she was a founding member of a group of Hollywood conservatives. The founder of Parents United America, an advocacy group for parents rights and school choice, Flora hosted a daily talk radio show on Salem Radio Network’s 710 KNUS and made an unsuccessful run for the U.S. Senate in 2022.

Quote: “Like most Americans, I refuse to accept that our economy and our democracy are too broken to fix. For the sake of our children, we must build opportunity for every American and restore integrity to our government.”

Fast fact: After winning the title of Miss Colorado — she played “Shenandoah” and “Dueling Banjos” on the flute in the talent competition — under her maiden name, Debbie Jane Riecks, Flora finished as second runner-up in the 1990 Miss America pageant, ahead of third runner-up Miss Illinois, who went on fame as actress Jeri Ryan.

Richard Holtorf

Declared candidacy: Nov. 9, 2023

Website: holtorfforcolorado.com

Residence: Akron

Total funds raised: $112,000

Cash on hand: $103,000

Route to ballot: Petition and assembly

Background: The state representative is a retired Army colonel, who served five overseas tours and two combat tours in Afghanistan. A third-generation rancher, Holtorf manages the Buffalo Springs Ranch, where he raises “top shelf” cattle and grows wheat and millet. Holtorf has a master’s in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College.

Quote: “ I’m tired of what I see in Congress, and it’s time for a Colorado Cowboy to go up there and fight the out of touch bureaucrats.”

Fast fact: His family’s Buffalo Springs Ranch has that name because it was the last place in Colorado where wild, free-roaming buffalo were sighted.

Jerry Sonnenberg

Declared candidacy: Dec. 7, 2023

Website: sonnenbergforcongress.com

Residence: Sterling

Total funds raised: $154,000

Cash on hand: $151,000

Route to ballot: Assembly

Background: The owner of Sonnenberg Farms and Sonnenberg & Sons Cattle in Sterling, where he grew up, Sonnenberg served four terms in the state House and two terms in the state Senate before facing term limits. He was elected in 2022 as a Logan County commissioner.

Quote: “Rural Coloradans and hardworking families all across the district need a voice in Washington who understands our community, our principled conservative values, our way of life, and our unique challenges.”

Fast fact: At one point, Sonnenberg was the only farmer in the Colorado House of Representatives. He was inducted last year into the Colorado Agriculture Hall of Fame.

Ted Harvey

Declared candidacy: Dec. 11, 2023

Website: tedharvey.com

Residence: Highlands Ranch

Total funds raised: $41,000

Cash on hand: $39,000

Route to ballot: Assembly

Background: After working at the Independence Institute and as district office manager for then-U.S. Rep. Joel Hefly, R-Colorado Springs, Harvey served three terms in the state House and two terms in the state Senate and made an unsuccessful run in the 6th Congressional District in 2008. Harvey has run numerous national political action committees aimed at defeating Hillary Clinton, supporting Donald Trump and opposing Joe Biden’s reelection.

Quote: “I want to fight for the godly principles that our country was founded upon — and we are losing it. Yes, we have a $34 trillion fiscal deficit right now in the United States, but we have a far greater moral deficit in the United States. I will go to Washington, D.C., and I will fight tooth and nail for our godly principles.”

Fast fact: Harvey was a young staffer in the Reagan White House and had a two-year stint as House reading clerk in the 1990s.

Lauren Boebert

Declared candidacy: Dec. 27, 2023

Website: laurenforcolorado.com

Residence: Windsor

Total funds raised: $2.98 million

Cash on hand: $3.5 million

Route to ballot: Petition and assembly

Background: The former owner of Shooters Grill, a gun-themed restaurant in Rifle, Boebert defeated an incumbent Republican in the 2020 primary in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District and narrowly won a second term in 2022. In January 2024 the member of the House Freedom Caucus moved across the state to run in the 4th Congressional District.

Quote: “You deserve someone who will never compromise and will always stand in your defense. I have a proven record of doing exactly that. And if we don’t have someone with my principles in office, then we may not have an America left to stand for our allies, like Israel. We must defend our home first.”

Fast fact: Boebert was the first Republican to nominate Louisiana’s Mike Johnson to be speaker of the House during a GOP caucus meeting to consider replacements for Kevin McCarthy, the deposed speaker whose ouster in early October triggered the unusual vacancy.

Peter Yu

Declared candidacy: Dec. 29, 2023

Website: peteryuforcongress.com

Residence: Windsor

Total funds raised: $254,000 (including $250,000 candidate loan)

Cash on hand: $254,000

Route to ballot: Petition and assembly

Background: A finance and mortgage consultant, Yu is a second-generation immigrant and was the 2018 Republican nominee in the Colorado’s 2nd Congressional District but lost to Democrat Joe Neguse. He made an unsuccessful run for the U.S. Senate in 2022.

Quote: “I will get things done addressing immigration, our economy and everything else that CD 4 needs. And I’m going to do that with a clear plan on how we actually have common sense solutions.”

Fast fact: After Yu’s parents and six brothers and sisters came to America in 1969 without any money and not speaking a word of English, he was the first member of his family to be born in America.

Mike Lynch

Declared candidacy: Jan. 3, 2024

Website: lynchforcolorado.com

Residence: Wellington

Total funds raised: N/A

Cash on hand: N/A

Route to ballot: Petition and assembly

Background: The state representative is a graduate of West Point Military Academy. Lynch served in the Army’s Fourth Infantry division, where he commanded a Bradley weapons system. At the beginning of this year’s legislative session, Lynch stepped down as House minority leader after narrowly surviving a “no confidence” vote following the revelation of his arrest on drunken driving and gun charges in late 2022.

Quote: “The world is a very dangerous place, perhaps the most dangerous for democracy in two generations. Congress must have elected men and women serving who understand the high price America pays for our freedom.”

Fast fact: Lynch runs Western Heritage, a family-owned business that manufactures and sells custom cast belt buckles, apparel and commemorative badges to Forest Service and other federal employees.

Chris Phelen

Declared candidacy: Jan. 4, 2024

Website: chrisphelen4congress.com

Residence: Castle Rock

Total funds raised: N/A

Cash on hand: N/A

Route to ballot: Petition and assembly

Background: A graduate of Princeton University and Villanova University School of Law, Phelen served as chief of staff to U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colorado Springs, more than a decade ago, and later co-founded a venture development firm.

Quote: “I believe in God, family and an honest day’s work. Our Christian conservative values are under attack in Washington, particularly by a number of wolves in sheep’s clothing — those who espouse the word, yet in private live morally bankrupt lives. You deserve better.”

Fast fact: Phelen recently took a break from campaigning to help coach his sons, 7-year-old Made and 14-year-old Ramsey, at the Head Rebels Youth Ski League Kombi race event at Sunlight Mountain, with both boys placing and Ramsey finishing first in both elements of the alpine ski competition.

Floyd Trujillo

Declared candidacy: Feb. 13, 2024

Website: TK

Residence: Roxborough Park

Total funds raised: N/A

Cash on hand: N/A

Route to ballot: Petition

Background: A Marine veteran and the longtime chairman of the Hispanic Energy Alliance, Trujillo made a brief, unsuccessful run for the U.S. Senate in 2014. He traces his family’s roots in Colorado’s 4th District to 1860 and counts Kit Carson as a great great uncle.

Quote: “Americans of Hispanics heritage, with their proud history and fierce conservative values, have the potential to change the political direction in the state. I encourage the GOP to make the effort on educating them on the party platform to earn their votes.”

Fast fact: Trujillo is the author of “Fossil Fuels in the Classroom: The ABCs of Fossil Fuels,” a forthcoming children’s book that chronicles the exploits of a dog named Dexter who learns that his busy day of adventures would be impossible without fossil fuels.