May 28, 2026 11:14 AM UTC

New Victor Marx Interview a Damning Indictment of Colorado Republicans

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• by: Colorado Pols

Cajun Karate Master and “ministry leader” Victor Marx is probably going to be the Republican nominee for Governor in Colorado. This is not great news for Colorado Republicans, but Marx is merely a symptom of the disease that has infected the GOP in this state.

Marx sat down this week with Kyle Clark of 9News for the first extensive interview he has done outside of right-wing radio. It was bonkers. Marx dodged every question over the course of 30 minutes; he spent most of his time having a thesaurus argument with Clark as part of an obvious strategy to dance around providing straight answers. We noted last week (again) that Marx rarely gives direct answers to any question — including benign queries like, “Where did you grow up” — and his interview with Clark was no different. Here’s how Marx approached answering the simplest question of them all:

CLARK: You describe yourself as a high-risk missionary, a renowned martial artist. You’re a ministry leader, you’re a speaker, you’re an author. What qualifies you to be the Governor of Colorado?

MARX: I’d say, first, what are the qualifications to be governor?

Well, you have to be at least 30 years old, an American citizen, and a resident of Colorado for at least two years. There’s not a job listing on Indeed that you can peruse.

Marx went on to deliver a word salad about caring for people before explaining that the job of governor is like being a CEO of a company, and since he’s a CEO of an opaque nonprofit he would be good at “probably assign[ing] the right people in the right positions to help run the state.”

Clark asked Marx several pointed questions throughout the interview — all of which Marx deflected in one way or another. Marx is so dedicated to obfuscation that he even questions his own words about his “missionary” work in which he regularly claims to have liberated women and children from around the globe who are victims of abuse and sex trafficking.

CLARK: I want to talk about the specifics of what you will share about your rescues. You said that you’ve performed over 130 missions to rescue women and children from terror and abuse. Your organization says that you’ve saved women and children from 30 nations — 30 nations, that’s a lot of countries. Could you list off a bunch of those for me?

MARX: Start with the first. What did I say?

CLARK: You said that — this was in 2024 — you said that you performed more than 130, quote, ‘Missions to rescue women and children from terror and abuse.’ Is what you said factually true, that you have performed more than 130 missions to rescue women and children from terror and abuse?

MARX: Where do you cite that?

CLARK: You said that on ‘X’ on August 12, 2024.

MARX: That’s not something I believe I would ever say.

CLARK: Your full quote was, ‘I wrote this book, Dangerous Gentleman, after 130-plus missions to rescue women and children from terror and abuse.’ So that’s not true, what you wrote?

MARX: I wouldn’t…that doesn’t sound accurate, that I would specify how many missions…

CLARK: Okay, I’m happy to provide you with a copy afterwards…

MARX: Thanks.

Marx would never say this thing that he definitely said on ‘X’ to promote his book:

Clark tried to get Marx to explain his “rescue missions” with some sort of actual detail, but Marx danced around by saying that providing specific information would somehow put his organization at a security risk. This was the point in the interview where the parallels to another Republican gubernatorial candidate were hard to ignore. State Rep. Scott “Rock” Bottoms of Colorado Springs has been claiming for months that he uncovered three different “pedophile rings” at the State Capitol. Bottoms, of course, has no actual evidence to support any of his accusations.

One candidate invents fantastical accusations; another conceives inexplicable solutions. If Marx and Bottoms joined forces as a ticket, they could travel around pretending to solve nonexistent problems in every corner of Colorado.

Marx and Bottoms are both patently ridiculous candidates, but what other choice do Colorado Republicans have in the June Primary Election? The third candidate on the ballot, State Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer, led a 2013 effort to get several northern Colorado counties to literally secede from the rest of the state.

When the least-visibly insane candidate on the ballot is an admitted secessionist, you’re doing it wrong as a political party. Republicans lose no matter who wins on June 30.

That’s the bigger lesson from the Victor Marx interview with 9News. For years, Colorado Republicans have embraced hucksters and ridiculous characters from Donald Trump to Lauren Boebert, and they continue to go deeper down the rabbit hole of ridiculousness in 2026. Serious politicians interested in doing serious things need no longer apply.