The Republican candidate for governor of Colorado described body-slamming his wife, throwing his toddler across a room and claimed God had given him a “gift for violence” in a series of videos and posts uncovered by The Daily Beast and detailed in a Tuesday report.

A number of alarming new anecdotes from GOP candidate Victor Marx are intensifying concerns about the evangelical Christian minister, Marine veteran and political outsider, who has spoken extensively about his history with demonic possessions and previously claimed his stepfather forced him to kill a man when he was 7 years old.

In one violent account found in a 2021 video from “The Protector Nation” podcast, he spoke about assaulting his wife after she told him she no longer needed martial arts training because she “was married to a black belt Marine.”

Marx said the comment “infuriated” him and he then “remember[ed] grabbing her and slamming her into our front door.”

In another incident described in a 2020 episode of his own podcast, he recalled suddenly and “disproportionately” losing his temper after seeing his toddler-aged son push his sister and make her cry.

“I snatched him up and threw him across the room,” Marx said in audio still available online.

At the Turning Point USA Pastors Summit in San Diego, California, in 2023, he reportedly made light of his aggressive streak, telling attendees, “I feel like God gave me a gift for violence, against a manifestation of evil.”

Despite never having served in elected office, Marx narrowly beat Colorado State Senator Barb Kirkmeyer and State Rep. Scott Bottoms in June’s Republican gubernatorial primary.

He has failed to earn the favor of the Centennial State’s GOP establishment since, with former Colorado Republican Party chairman Dick Wadhams telling the New York Times, “I want Victor Marx to lose by as large a margin as possible. This party has got to come to its senses.”

Marx’s opponent in November’s general election is Democrat Phil Weiser, who has served as state attorney general since 2019.

Currently, no Republicans hold state office in Colorado. The last time a GOP member was elected governor was in 2002.

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