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The GOP fears the "absolute destruction" their nominee for a gubernatorial race will cause, a New York Times columnist wrote.

NY Times columnist Michelle Goldberg detailed the concerns of the GOP after self-described "high-risk humanitarian" Victor Marx won his party's nomination for governor last week.

Marx has been in the national spotlight for claiming that he killed a man when he was 7 years old. Goldberg also highlights his series of bizarre and dubious claims, such as that he saved over 40,000 women and girls from sex trafficking, that he can perform exorcisms by phone, and that he has a black belt in "Cajun karate," which was invented by his father, Karl Marx.

Although some of these claims haven't held up under scrutiny, Goldberg wrote, "These discrepancies haven't stopped Marx from building a brand out of action-movie evangelicalism," and winning the GOP nomination for governor to go up against Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser in November.

However, the Colorado GOP is worried about his nomination, Goldberg noted, not because it has its sights set on the governorship but because of how it will affect down-ballot races.

"Marx's close victory in a three-way primary has some Colorado Republicans despairing," Goldberg wrote. "Given how blue the state has become, the GOP never had much hope of winning the governorship, but Republicans told me that having Marx at the top of the ticket could put some statehouse and congressional races in danger."

Darcy Schoening, a top Colorado GOP party staffer who runs an anti-Marx website, told Goldberg that Marx is "going to do absolute destruction to all the candidates down ballot," and that his campaign has divided the state's right wing.

"The elevation of Marx is, in part, a story about the right-wing revolution eating its own," Goldberg wrote. "Marx demonstrates what can happen when voters, feeling apocalyptic, disdain concerns about expertise and electability and let themselves be guided by their id."

Mary "Tracy" Morrison, owner of The Delta Institute for the Developing Brain in Arkansas, orchestrated a disturbing assault on a 13-year-old student during an April 2025 "circle time" session, ProPublica reported.

Morrison berated the boy, struck him repeatedly with a plastic cylinder, and instructed classmates to choke, slap, punch, and pinch him for nearly 40 minutes while three staff members watched without intervening.

The incident was captured on video.

Craighead County Sheriff’s Detective David Bailey, a Jonesboro native, began investigating the school.

"More came out in Bailey’s interviews with parents and current and former employees and in interviews that child advocates conducted with the students, documents show: allegations of “waterboarding” a child and cutting another’s hair as punishment," ProPublica found, and added, "Slapping a student. A wooden paddle named Fred.

Morrison pleaded guilty to permitting child abuse and was sentenced to 30 days in jail, 120 days of house arrest, five years' probation and surrendered her occupational therapy license.

The case exposed Arkansas's lack of oversight of private schools receiving public Education Freedom Account vouchers.

Despite the abuse allegations, state officials quickly restored funding to the school, which now operates under a new name with Morrison still owning the property.

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