July 14, 2026 09:32 AM UTC

Victor Marx's "Loyalty Pledge" Doesn't Bode Well

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• by: Colorado Pols

As 9NEWS’ Kyle Clark reports, after edging out the insider favorite Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer in the Republican gubernatorial primary, “high-risk missionary” and Cajun Karate sensei Victor Marx is hoping to mend fences the way regular people do, reaching out after the Republican Party’s fierce internal feud over his candidacy and…demanding signatures on a loyalty pledge:

9NEWS obtained a “Republican General Election Unity Compact” being circulated by Marx’s team. It’s being sent to Republican candidates for federal, state and local office. It asks them to indicate if they support Marx and whether they’re willing to say so publicly.

It says, “We ask participating campaigns to avoid unnecessary public attacks on fellow nominees,” with a check box on whether candidates agree to Marx’s terms.

It also asks whether fellow Republicans are willing to “strengthen the broader ticket” through a series of steps. The first step: “Public support for Victor Marx.”

“Public support for Victor Marx” is the thing he needs most, and although Rep. Gabe Evans was astonishingly quick to throw his support behind Marx, neither of his vanquished opponents in the Republican primary for governor are expected to follow suit. Rep. Lauren Boebert, who helped launch Marx’s campaign, scaled back her support long before the primary as the questions about Marx’s highly questionable alleged background of international murder and mayhem began to accumulate.

Marx’s foremost AM radio cheerleader Jeff Hunt is nonetheless hopping mad at 9NEWS’ characterization of the loyalty pledge as, well, the thing that it is:

KYLE CLARK IS A LIAR.
The claim that Victor Marx is circulating a loyalty pledge to other republican candidates is a gross mischaracterization. It’s a campaign coordination framework document. How are campaigns going to work together? In fact, neither the word loyalty nor the word pledge appears in the document.

And technically, Jeff Hunt is right: it’s a “unity compact,” not a “loyalty pledge.” We stand corrected on this distinction sans difference.

Given the tremendous uncertainty among Republicans today about whether to get behind Marx’s campaign, even if only to prop up the ticket for the sake of downballot races, it makes sense that Marx would want to find out one and for all who is with him. Unfortunately for Marx, a loyalty pledge form is not a substitute for the relationship-building that results in the actual support that Kirkmeyer would have enjoyed. Given Marx’s tenuous standing, holding a nomination he won by inertia after his campaign became a national laughingstock, this ham-handed effort is most likely to have the opposite of the desired effect.

As it turns out, there’s more to running for governor than being really good at snatching guns out of people’s hands.