{"id":3147,"date":"2026-07-02T13:04:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=3147"},"modified":"2026-07-02T13:04:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:04:43","slug":"victor-marx-edging-out-barbara-kirkmeyer-in-colorado-gop-governor-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=3147","title":{"rendered":"Victor Marx edging out Barbara Kirkmeyer in Colorado GOP governor primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><p><strong>DENVER<\/strong> | State Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer\u2019s lead over Victor Marx in the Republican gubernatorial primary in Colorado vanished Wednesday as Marx for the first time since Tuesday\u2019s election inched ahead, according to the\u00a0secretary of state\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Kirkmeyer, a Weld County Republican, started with a lead that decreased throughout the day as ballots continued to be counted.<\/p>\n<p>As of 8:45 p.m., Marx had 39.87% of the vote, Kirkmeyer had 39.42%.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>A third candidate in the race, state Rep. Scott Bottoms, had about 20.71%. In the results so far, Kirkmeyer won counties in the Denver metro area and northern part of the state, while Marx carried the southern and western areas.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Wednesday, Kirkmeyer\u00a0posted\u00a0an appeal to volunteers to help cure ballots. If a person has a signature discrepancy with their ballot, for example, they will have an opportunity to fix it so it gets counted. Campaigns in close races often contact those affected voters.<\/p>\n<p>Whoever wins the Republican primary will face Democratic Attorney General\u00a0Phil Weiser\u00a0in November for the governor\u2019s seat.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=3142\">State\u2019s biggest school districts pass cellphone policies ahead of state deadline<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=3144\">Toon in Thursday<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=3146\">THURSDAY NEWS IN A RUSH: Top headlines in today\u2019s NewsMinute video<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER | State Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer\u2019s lead over Victor Marx in the Republican gubernatorial primary in Colorado vanished Wednesday as Marx for the first time since Tuesday\u2019s election inched ahead, according to the\u00a0secretary of state\u2019s office. Kirkmeyer, a Weld County Republican, started with a lead that decreased throughout the day as ballots continued to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3618],"tags":[4790,853,1242],"class_list":["post-3147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-voter-guide","tag-barb-kirkmeyer","tag-scott-bottoms","tag-victor-marx"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Victor Marx edging out Barbara Kirkmeyer in Colorado GOP governor primary - Denver Moving Chronicle<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=3147\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Victor Marx edging out Barbara Kirkmeyer in Colorado GOP governor primary - Denver Moving Chronicle\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"DENVER | State Sen. 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