JokersUpdates.com: Current Affairs - Voodoo, exorcism and a killer at age 7. Meet Colorado’s Republican nominee for governor

Victor Marx barely won, but his victory delivers a strong statement about the nature of today’s politics.
It shows what happens when a party stops seriously competing and instead indulges its fever dreams.
When Victor Marx was 3 years old, he was forced into a voodoo ritual involving a beheaded cat. At age 7, he killed a man.

Or so Marx says.

But he was not just a precocious child.

As an adult running a “high-risk” Christian ministry, Marx says he rescued 45,000 women and children from captivity and abuse. As a civilian, he supposedly called in a U.S. military airstrike that killed 70 ISIS fighters. He’s exorcised demons — and can do so over the telephone, he says, if need be.

True or, most likely, false, those woolly claims and epic tales of derring-do aren’t the weirdest thing about Marx.

The weirdest thing is that Marx is the Republican nominee for governor of Colorado, an actual part of these United States.

A political newcomer, Marx eked out his victory in a three-way race by less than 2,500 votes out of more than 520,000 cast. (It took almost nine days to declare a winner, but surely you knew that already, given the national outcry over how long it took Colorado to count its ballots. Oh, wait. Never mind

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2026-07-19/colorado-governor-republican-victor-marx-midterm-election-political-nihilism