Victor Marx has built a political brand on stories that sound unbelievable—and they're now tearing at Colorado's GOP. The 61-year-old Christian ministry leader and Republican nominee for governor who's never before held elected office leans heavily on a dramatic life narrative: a stepfather who allegedly forced him to kill a man at 7, his role as an exorcist, and his involvement, as a civilian, in a military airstrike that killed dozens of ISIS fighters in Iraq—claims that have proved hard to corroborate, per the New York Times. The former Marine Corps vet has also described having "a gift for violence." He once laughed while recounting how he'd slammed his wife into a door, leaving her crying, and described throwing his toddler "across the room," per the Daily Beast.
Establishment Republicans are openly alarmed, painting Marx as unelectable in a state where polls show President Trump is unpopular. Former state GOP chair Dick Wadhams says Marx "is not fit to be the governor" and urges the party to "come to its senses." But grassroots evangelicals and biker-bar conservatives are behind this self-styled spiritual warrior who promises to "consecrate" Colorado to God and calls the state's problems part of a coordinated "socialist" takeover. They shrug off questions about his biography, campaign-finance issues, past legal and tax troubles, and his refusal to answer whether he's killed anyone as an adult. That leaves Marx, who refuses to debate Democratic Attorney General Phil Weiser, insisting he can become Colorado's first Republican governor in decades—if every Christian shows up.
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