An agonizing interview failed to end the GOP's Marx problem
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But Republicans have their own share of weirdos, and I’m not just talking about Ken Paxton in Texas. A prime example is running for governor in Colorado, where — because the gods of politics have a sense of humor — Republicans will spend the fall urging voters: Stop the socialists — vote for Marx.
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Last week, after the close June 30 election, Marx was declared the winner. This, despite a catastrophic interview in May with Kyle Clark of 9News, the NBC affiliate in Denver. Clark began with Marx’s extraordinary, and unverified, claim to have rescued 45,000 women and children from captivity and abuse. He pressed for specifics.
Clark: “Is what you said factually true, that you have performed more than 130 missions to rescue women and children from terror?”
Marx: “Where do you cite that?”
Clark: “You said that on X on August 12th of 2024.”
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Somehow, the interview managed to get even worse. Marx has claimed in the past that at age 7, his abusive stepfather drove him into rural Mississippi and made him shoot another human being to death. Police in the area told Colorado Public Radio they had no record of unsolved homicides from that time.
Clark asked, “Your claim that your abusive stepfather forced you to kill a man when you were 7 years old — is that the only person you’ve ever killed?” For probably 99.999 percent of the population, that’s an easy question to answer. For an agonizing 10 seconds or so, Marx sat, thinking, and finally responded, “Well, I would say, as a, as a child, yes, I mean, without question. But I’ve been in other situations where, you know, possibly people or persons died, as a result of me defending myself and in other countries.”
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Later Clark asked, “You claim that you once called in a U.S. military airstrike that killed 70 ISIS fighters. I didn’t realize that civilians could essentially facilitate military airstrikes. Could you walk me through how that worked?”
Marx: “No.”
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