{"id":3467,"date":"2026-07-10T04:07:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T04:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=3467"},"modified":"2026-07-10T04:07:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T04:07:40","slug":"first-time-candidate-victor-marx-wins-colorado-gop-nomination-amid-controversy-over-his-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=3467","title":{"rendered":"First-time candidate Victor Marx wins Colorado GOP nomination amid controversy over his past"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><p><strong>DENVER<\/strong> | Marine Corps veteran Victor Marx won the Republican primary for Colorado governor on Thursday, inching past a state senator who had the establishment\u2019s backing.<\/p>\n<p>Marx, who has described himself as a \u201chigh risk humanitarian\u201d and the fastest gun disarmer in the world, defeated Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer, his stiffest competition, in the June 30 election. Too many votes remained outstanding after election night to call the tight race, but most counties, including the largest ones, have now reported their final results.<\/p>\n<p>In a video posted to social media Thursday, Marx thanked his supporters and invited those who hadn\u2019t voted for him to join his coalition.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re frustrated, skeptical, or wondering if anything can actually change,\u201d he said, \u201cI just proved it by winning the primary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marx founded All Things Possible Ministries, and has said he\u2019s \u201cled more than 150 high-stakes missions across some of the world\u2019s most dangerous regions.\u201d That includes, according to his campaign website, a mission into \u201cISIS territory\u201d to save a group of kidnapped girls.<\/p>\n<p>He has also said his abusive stepfather effectively forced Marx, at 7 years old, to kill a man.<\/p>\n<p>During public interviews, Marx has refused to say how many people he has killed after he got out of the Marines in activities linked to his ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Kirkmeyer thanked her supporters and volunteers in a statement Thursday evening, signing off by saying, \u201cI\u2019m still proud of the campaign we ran \u2026 and, for the record, I still haven\u2019t killed anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A third candidate, state Rep. Scott Bottoms, trailed both Marx and Kirkmeyer.<\/p>\n<p>Marx will face Democrat Phil Weiser, the state attorney general, in November, though the state has become an uphill battle for Republican candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado hasn\u2019t elected a Republican as governor in more than two decades, and the state backed Democrat Kamala Harris for president by more than 10 points over Donald Trump in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. 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Barbara Kirkmeyer, his stiffest competition, in the June 30 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258],"tags":[1238,1303,5573,39,853,1242],"class_list":["post-3467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colorado-news","tag-barbara-kirkmeyer","tag-colorado-newsline","tag-greg-lopez","tag-phil-weiser","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>First-time candidate Victor Marx wins Colorado GOP nomination amid controversy over his past - 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=3467\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"First-time candidate Victor Marx wins Colorado GOP nomination amid controversy over his past - Denver Moving Chronicle\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"DENVER | Marine Corps veteran Victor Marx won the Republican primary for Colorado governor on Thursday, inching past a state senator who had the establishment\u2019s backing. 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