Evangelical minister Victor Marx says he’s rescued thousands of women across the globe, ordered an airstrike on ISIS and conducted a prayer exorcism on Charlie Kirk
Credit: Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post
NEED TO KNOW
- A Marine veteran and evangelical Christian minister who has repeatedly claimed to have killed people — including as a 7-year-old child — has secured the Republican nomination for Colorado governor
- He has stood by claims that he rescued thousands of women across the globe and ordered a deadly airstrike on ISIS as a civilian
- Marx has also repeatedly said he was forced to behead a cat and wear it on his head at the age of 3 and shoot and kill a man at the age of 7 by his abusive stepfather
A Marine veteran and evangelical Christian minister who has repeatedly claimed to have killed multiple people — including as a 7-year-old child — has secured the Republican nomination for Colorado governor, according to projections from The Associated Press and CNN.
Victor Marx, 61, is the founder of All Things Possible Ministries and describes himself as a “high risk humanitarian with successful missions to Iraq, Syria, North Africa and Southeast Asia – many times in non-permissive and high threat environments, helping orphans and widows.”
He has stood by claims that he rescued thousands of women and girls across the globe, ordered an airstrike on ISIS, and was forced to shoot and kill a man by his abusive stepfather at the age of 7.
“I am humbled to be the Republican nominee for governor of Colorado,” Marx said in an Instagram video on Thursday, July 9.
Credit: Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post
The race was called by AP and other outlets on Thursday with 99% of votes from the June 30 primary counted and 39.9% of ballots cast for Marx. State Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer, a longtime local and state Republican official, fell less than 3,000 votes and a half a percentage point short. State Rep. Scott Bottoms came in third with 20.8% of the vote.
Neither Kirmeyer nor Bottoms have committed to supporting Marx in the November general election.
Marx will face Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser in a race to replace term-limited Democratic Gov. Jared Polis. Weiser defeated Sen. Michael Bennet in the Democratic primary by more than 13 percentage points.
“Now, Phil Weiser, he’s a smart fella, but he represents the current system because he is part of it,” Marx said in the Thursday video. “We must win. Not with anger, not with slogans, and not with shallow political attacks.”
“The primary is over, the mission starts now,” he added.
Credit: AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post
Colorado voted for Vice President Kamala Harris over President Donald Trump by roughly 11 points in the 2024 election and hasn’t elected a Republican governor since 2002. But Marx’s ascent despite his wild claims and far-right politics has stunned political observers and members of his own party.
“While we came up short in what appears to be the closest Republican gubernatorial primary in Colorado history, I’m grateful for every voter who placed their trust in us,” Kirkmeyer said in a statement on Thursday. “Now the voters will make the final decision in November, and I hope they choose the path that is best for Colorado.”
“I’m still proud of the campaign we ran… and, for the record, I still haven’t killed anyone,” she added.
— Barb Kirkmeyer for Governor (@KirkmeyerforGov) July 10, 2026
Marx has repeatedly claimed that he was forced to behead a cat and wear it on his head at the age of 3 and shoot and kill a man at the age of 7 by his abusive stepfather.
In May, Marx told Next 9NEWS reporter Kyle Clark that he cannot prove the stories to be true and that the alleged murder was the only time he killed a person “as a child.”
Sheriff and police officials from the area of rural Mississippi where Marx claims the killing took place told Colorado Public Radio in May that they had no information on unsolved homicides from that time period.
Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.
“But I’ve been in other situations where, you know, possibly people or persons died as a result of me defending myself and other countries,” Marx said in the Next 9NEWS interview published on May 27.
“Do you think that you’ve killed people as an adult?” Clark asked.
“Does it matter?” Marx replied.
When pressed to say how many people he’s killed, Marx said: “If I did, I wouldn’t be telling a reporter.”
Later, when Clark asked Marx — who served in the Marines for three years in the 1980s — about how he supposedly called in a U.S. military airstrike that killed 70 ISIS fighters as a civilian, the Colorado Republican declined to expand on the incident.
Credit: Timothy Hurst/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post/Getty
Marx has also claimed that he “hunts demons” and performs prayer “exorcisms,” including on the late Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, an unidentified high-ranking Pentagon official, and celebrities.
“Over the years, I’ve been blessed to know men of deep conviction and courage; leaders who don’t just talk about change, but live it. One of those friends, whom I held in the highest regard, was the late Charlie Kirk,” Marx said in his official campaign biography.
In 2024, actor Steven Baldwin boosted a prayer request posted by Marx on behalf of Justin and Hailey Bieber, Baldwin’s daughter. Marx claimed at the time that his wife and “Hailey’s mom pray often together” for Justin and Hailey and “our children, as well,” PEOPLE reported.
“From the little we know about Victor Marx, his views and style are far out of step with Coloradans, and his nomination for governor is a threat to our state’s values and our future,” Weiser, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee, said in a statement on Thursday. “Governing is serious business, and Coloradans have a clear choice in this race: a politics of showing up, listening, and fighting for the rights and freedoms of all – or a politics of deception, demonization, and distraction.”
Read the full article here
