July 09, 2026 05:03 PM UTC

(Not) Breaking: Victor Marx Clinches GOP Nomination

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• by: Colorado Pols

As the Denver Post’s Seth Klamann reports, though the numbers were in place days ago to make the call:

The Associated Press called the race for Marx late Thursday afternoon, nearly nine days after polls closed. He led the runner-up, state Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer, 39.9% to 39.4%, with 99% of ballots counted, according to the AP.

Marx had taken his first narrow lead over Kirkmeyer the day after the June 30 primary, and though the race remained close, he never lost the advantage. While outstanding deficient and overseas ballots helped delay a final call on the race, those votes only served to expand Marx’s margin. He led by 2,156 votes Thursday afternoon, with nearly 522,000 ballots cast.

Serial fabulist “high-risk missionary” Victor Marx’s roughly 2,000-vote lead has held fast for several days now, and the wait for the Associated Press to formally call the race has turned into something of a death watch for the candidate who was hyped ad absurdum by local pundits as the best chance for Republicans to win the governor’s race in some years, state Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer. Kirkmeyer’s pleas for voters to see through Victor Marx’s fantastical facade grew increasingly desperate as Marx’s calamitous public appearances became national joke fodder, but it wasn’t enough to overcome Marx’s charismatic ascension with support from Republican luminaries like Lauren Boebert.

Both Kirkmeyer and third-wheel candidate Scott Bottoms have said they will not support Victor Marx’s campaign. The division Marx is bringing to the Republican ticket could give unaffiliated candidate who has stopped beating his pregnant wife former short-time Rep. Greg Lopez a significant boost, setting up a dynamic similar to 2010 in which former Rep. Tom Tancredo pulled over 30% of the vote on a third-party ticket from the collapsed Republican gubernatorial nominee.

Or…Colorado Republicans try to unify around a candidate who claims he started killing people at age 7.

It’s popcorn time, gentle readers.