Colorado GOP governor candidate Victor Marx addresses slamming his wife into a door to teach her a lesson. He has no regrets: ‘I’d do it again’

Colorado‘s Republican nominee for governor, Victor Marx, answered questions about an old account of grabbing his wife and slamming her into a door during a Zoom call session with his supporters, according to Mediaite. He told the group he stands by what he did and said, “I’d do it again.”

The clip reached a wider audience after 9News anchor Kyle Clark posted it on Tuesday night. In the post on X, Clark wrote that Marx told backers he does not regret slamming his wife into a door to teach her a lesson about self-defense, and that Marx said she fake cried and that physicality is just the nature of their relationship.

Those older remarks surfaced in a late September Daily Beast report. The report said Marx gave the account in 2021 on a podcast, while explaining that he had been disappointed his wife stopped combat training.

Marx implied the physicality a normal aspect of their relationship

Marx said on that podcast that his wife had told him she did not need to keep training because he would protect her. He then described the moment that followed. Marx’s remarks add to a broader pattern of political figures facing scrutiny over how they treat their wives, as Trump reportedly called Rep. Max Miller amid abuse claims from his ex-wife.

“And I remember grabbing her and slamming her into our front door. I mean, pretty… it was a decent push. It’d be a bouncer push, right? She hit that, bent over, and started crying, facing the opposite way,” he said, according to the Daily Beast.

Speaking to supporters on the Zoom, Marx treated the coverage as a missed context problem rather than something he wanted to walk back. “This is the dumbest thing. And same thing with me grabbing my wife, pushing her against the door,” he said in the clip Clark shared.

He argued that the full sequence had been left out. “Show the before and after. They don’t want the full truth: that my wife was fake crying, suckered me in. And I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, are you okay?’ And she does a spin back kick in my luggage. I was like, ‘Okay, you actually can’t protect yourself.'”

His wife stepped into the frame during the call and grabbed him. “I did a weird choke,” she said. Marx reacted to the grab.

“You’re making me flinch, huh? You guys, I mean, people have called us the real Mr. and Mrs. Smith: black belts, training. I’m sitting there. How many of, you know, how many wives, you know, actually grab a backpack, put a tomahawk, magic vision, and put a grenade in their coat pocket? We’re not normal,” he said.

He then returned to the point he opened with. “So I’d do it again. I’d do everything again, except get that close to her and let her kick me, because she’s sneaky. So, it’s just nuts,” Marx said.

Separate from the door story, Marx has drawn national attention for claims he has made about his own past, including that he killed an undisclosed number of people and that he conducts exorcisms. He also runs a ministry in Colorado that says it rescues endangered children and Christians from overseas.

In the governor’s race, Marx is not widely viewed as a competitive candidate. RealClearPolitics averages of polling are not even tracking the contest. Long-shot bids for governor have drawn attention for other reasons, such as when a Tennessee governor candidate claims Islam is incongruent with the Constitution and promises to ban non-Christian places of worship.