Victor Marx gives his first in-depth interview on his 2026 campaign for governor

Victor Marx describes himself as an outsider and not a career politician. He outlines his decision to enter the Republican primary in the 2026 Colorado governor's race. His wife Eileen joins the conversation on their rescue missions around the world as part of their organization dedicated to that cause, 'All Things Possible.'

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
So very hard.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
So grateful to have Victor Marxen Studio with us, along
with his wife and partner in so many different ways,
Eileen and their amazing dog, Reagan. So Victor, thank you, Eileen,
thank you for being here. Quick tip, you really need
to get close to those mikes. Yeah, and it's not
the budget cut issues or anything like that. It's just
the nature of these highay microphones. But now I've really

(00:43):
been looking forward to this. Thanks for coming in, Thanks
for having us. Yeah, and for those not familiar, because
obviously some people just don't tune into politics away the
rest of us do. But Victor is now officially in
the governor's race, and he and Eileen have a fascinating
story in a long history together obviously as a couple
but also professionally, and we'll get into that as we

(01:06):
have the longer conversation, and thank you for making an hour.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
You've allowed an hour, and you're doing it in.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Studio, which I really appreciate because it lets us really
dig in. Oh yeah, and so why don't we just
start at the beginning and if you would, and I
lean jump in anytime you like. But for the folks
who don't know you yet, just let them know who
you are, what you do, and why you're doing this.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
Yeah, well again, thanks for having us first. I would
let people know I'm not a politician, so I'm not polished,
I'm not slick. I don't have these can responses. I
just talked from my heart, and it's what we've done
for thirty seven years as a couple. But I came
from a pretty challenge background, so I've known adversity and

(01:54):
had a life of people saying you want to do
what that's impossible, and then we've just proved the I'm
wrong again and again. My last book out, The Dangerous Gentlemen,
we share stories that people just are taken back by
what's done and our desire to We never thought we

(02:16):
were going to go into politics now when our heart
has always been to help people who've been traumatized or
in the last decade we became high risk. Some people
call it missionaries, some people call NGO just high respectulis
to go into countries and help those who I think
we're best known for rescuing and helping those who've been

(02:39):
affected by ISIS, so on both ends of the spectrum.
Our last rescue was as a couple with a team
former Delta operator agency guy. We planned it for six
months and we've rescued a girl who had been held
captive for nine years. Then nine years nobody was going
for her and she was Captain Biasis. She had two

(03:01):
children in captivity. And when that came on our intel
bank of who she is and could we do it again?
We planned for six months, prayed, were we are strong
faith folks, and then we executed in five days. And
you know what's extraordinary about that is II Leen was

(03:22):
the point person for the rescue because she was in
ISIS captivity and we needed a female to female to
be ready, and so we trained up. We have a
saying we we try to stay prepared, that we were
not paranoid and stay mission ready.

Speaker 5 (03:40):
So you remember.

Speaker 6 (03:43):
Remember and actually that rescue was I lean.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
My apologies Okay, I just need to activate your MIC.
I thought I had done that. I think we have
you now. Yeah, we're good now my mistake.

Speaker 5 (03:55):
Sorry.

Speaker 6 (03:56):
Yes, So that rescue was a full circle for us
because we had been into Iraq ten years prior reaching
those young women who were captured by ISIS. Now this
was a gal who's kidnapped and brought to ISIS confinement
and now we get to finish our last trip in
there rescuing her and her two boys that she had

(04:19):
in captivity. So it was incredible and she never knew
who we were. We just were American Christians got her
and her boys out of a horrible situation.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
How did you find out about her?

Speaker 5 (04:34):
It's through our network.

Speaker 4 (04:36):
We've had a house in Iraq for many years, over
a decade, and we have a very strong network in
the Middle East Southeast Asia as she's south of the border.
When you're working in these circles, we are able to
take digest, turn the intel around of is this what's

(04:57):
the possibility? And oftentimes like this one, it was like
no way and her family thought she was dead and
we actually just like I mean said, we got to
listen to her on the phone, talking to her brother
for the first time after nine years, and.

Speaker 5 (05:16):
He didn't believe it was her.

Speaker 4 (05:17):
So he's asking about questions of her childhood and then
finally he's like, well where are you and she looks
around in our safe house. He goes, I don't know
because it was night, and he goes, who are you with?
She said, I remember this Christians from America. Wow, And
that was a big win. But to throw a bouqueta.

(05:39):
I lean to watch my wife get up geara for
the operation that night. Literally, she's strapping on in her
belt that touched under everything. She's putting a gun to maggs,
a customed blade. She puts on body armor that's a
low profile, followed by a very nice wool jacket with
your boots.

Speaker 5 (05:58):
He looked, really and.

Speaker 4 (06:02):
She puts a tamahawk in her backpack. Cash envys she's
got an AK forty seven. She folds, puts a magazine in.
And it's not that we want to be genetic or
we're not door kickers. We just in those environments you
have to be prepared. But I think it was when
you grabbed the frag grenade and she put it in

(06:22):
a makeup bag and kind of zipped it up and
put it in her pocket that I just went, honey,
at this point, I don't know whether it be terrified
or turned on. And then the mission was incredible to
bring her and those two little boys in and one
day we'll be able to tell more. We just need
a little bit more time to pass, since that was

(06:43):
our last operation.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
And tell folks, the name of the ministry.

Speaker 4 (06:47):
Organization is called All Things Possible Ministries, and we've been
around for almost twenty two years. And we started out
here in America, reaching kids who are incarcerated. And it
was actually we started in Colorado. The first you know,
I was working for James Dobson at the time, I

(07:07):
was an assistant to him. And before that we lived
in Hawaii. We had martial arts schools, we had a
TV show. We weren't suffering in an almost sense of
the word. We had kind of made it. But then
I got an invitation and I've always loved doctor Dobson,
and we said, well, we prayed, let's go, and we
came here. And then it was after a few years

(07:28):
people started asking me, hey, why don't you tell your story?

Speaker 5 (07:34):
And I was very at a very protected.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
Version, and it was in a small group of kind
of executive leadership that I shared that my father was
a drug deal and a pimp and I had been
abused as a kid, tortured and I was left for
dead and a cooler commercial cooler, and then I saw
horrible things happen and my mother finally, you know, got

(08:00):
out of that. And I ended up going to fourteen
school seventeen houses and started drugs in like sixth grade.
But there was an organization that took me in, you know,
gave me a place to stay, food eating down the
shoot number sixteen eighty one.

Speaker 5 (08:18):
It was back.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
Under President Reagan. He was my commander in chief. I
served in the Nasty's Marine Corps, which we just celebrated
two hundred and fifty years our birthday. Yeahs and crayons
just for the occasion. Not the Redlins. She won't let
me have Redlins.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
Stick the blue A great way to start the conversation.
So I'm glad we did this. And what do I
want to do when we come back? And our show
is broken down into about ten minute segments, so you know,
we'll hit a break here, we'll come back, and I'd
like to explore a little more. You had mentioned, you know,
this very challenging childhood that you have, and then it

(08:55):
sounds like the Marines. It's just a great opportunity in
your life that really helped you get on track. And
I know from some of the things I've read, it
sounds like it at one point your dad came back
into your life, and I think that's a neat part
of the story. And then let's dive into this governor's
race after that and get into the issues and why

(09:18):
you're running, and get into some of those bread and
butter issues that people are sitting around saying, is this
ever going to get fixed? Is it ever going to
get better? So I want to get into Okay, what
is your solution? How are you going to be able
to help folks that way? Now, what I want to
do Victor before we hit this break, I want to
give you a chance in every segment to throw your
website out there, because our audience will turn over every

(09:40):
segment or two.

Speaker 4 (09:41):
So yeah, Well, for the government's race, it's Victor twenty six,
twenty twenty six dot com, Victor twenty twenty six dot com,
and then just Victor marks dot com for a regular one.
But I'm on all social medias that I think we
have about three million followers, you.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
Know, almost as many as Ryan Shuling, right. Well, yeah, yeah, yeah,
but you'll catch him.

Speaker 4 (10:04):
You'll catch himots yeah, Okay.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
Well, Victor and Eileen Marx in studio along with their Reagan,
who also goes on missions with Yeah. Yeah, so welcome back.
Fascinating story. Glad you're here on the Dan Capla Show.

Speaker 7 (10:23):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
Victor and Eileen Mars in studio with us, and we
very much appreciate that Victor, a candidate for governor's getting
talked about a lot because he comes from the outside.
He has so many accomplishments in so many different arenas.
He and Eileen together, they've been married. I think you
guys said thirty seven years.

Speaker 5 (10:45):
Yeah, December, yeah, next month. Wow.

Speaker 3 (10:49):
And as we talk about your backgrounds a little more,
mix it with policy, et cetera, it's clear that you
guys have been very much like my wife and I
just partners in lots of different ways, lots of different activities,
and probably helps explain why you have a great marriage
after thirty seven years, right when you're able to do
all of these other adventures and missions together.

Speaker 6 (11:11):
Oh, I think because we have had the opportunity to
work truly our whole marriage together, outside of a small
time when he was working for Focus, We've had businesses together,
ministry together. Yes. So, and he always tells me if
I believe him, he's just gonna follow me.

Speaker 5 (11:32):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (11:32):
So yes, Yes, got the skill sets juggered out.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
Assuming you want to be fire Yes.

Speaker 3 (11:42):
So in any case, if you missed the first segment,
Victor was talking about his past, which is absolutely fascinating.
So I'd recommend you pick that up off the podcast.
I'm sure we'll touch on it in some ways as
we move forward. But when we went to the break, Victor,
we had just you know, we talked about your past.
We ended with the fact that the Marine Corps had

(12:04):
really helped you, you know, after an extremely challenging childhood. Yeah,
and so let's pick it up there and just tell
people about how joining the Marines really helped advance your
life and how it may still influence you today.

Speaker 5 (12:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (12:20):
You know, the Marine Corps is what I needed as
a young man for structured discipline, throwing the values, the
core character developments of integrity, commitment, courage, followed through and
leadership skills, and you know I served. It's funny when
I talked to I was just at the two hundred

(12:42):
and fiftieth birthday of the Marine Corps and down Calortole
Springs and these young Marines are talking to me, and
they're like, so you, when did you? I said, I
served underneath President Reagan. So we used musket loaders and
rode in covered wagons with horses for our missions. No,

(13:02):
it's the Marine Corps was very good for me. It
pulled me out of I would say, challenging mindsets and
really showed me that I could do and be whoever
I wanted to be. I wasn't limited by labels of
my past because of my childhood.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
And so we sit here now and you had this
extremely rough, torturous at times, as you tell us, childhood.
The Marines then help get you on track. And so
now you're a young man, you're getting out of the Marines.
How do you go from there to ending up where
you are today with your mission all things possible and

(13:44):
now running for governor of the state of Colorado.

Speaker 4 (13:47):
I've always tried to be faithful to what I feel
like God has put before me. That it's a cheat
code for me. I just want to trust and follow him.
I'm a devout Christian and I really came to know
Christ in a personal way while I was in the

(14:07):
Marine Corps, and of all things, it was actually through
my biological dad, who we you know, he didn't even
claim me as a kid. Then we touched base a
little later in life, and it was through him saying, hey,
I've had some challenges in my life. I've overcome them
because I found faith, and would you come visit me?

(14:28):
And he did have some challenges, I mean, but I
visited him, got to know him, and it was through
him that I realized, Wow, faith we can do a man.

Speaker 5 (14:39):
A lot of good.

Speaker 4 (14:41):
And I'm not just talking about just religion, but real
true faith that changes a person from the inside out.

Speaker 3 (14:48):
And Eileen was mentioning during the break that you guys
are doing this because how did you put it?

Speaker 2 (14:53):
Eileen? You know you you see it as a mission
that you've been given.

Speaker 5 (14:58):
Yes, I do. So.

Speaker 6 (14:59):
We have had a few things happened to us recently,
actually the last year and a half that made us
start paying more attention to what's happening here in Colorado
and all let victors share what happened to him personally.
But recently, within the last four months, our daughter, twenty
one years old, was sexually assaulted in a parking lot

(15:23):
and the response time for the police was forty five minutes.
Our daughter, who's a fighter, she was able to capture
the license plate with her phone. So when the police
finally did get there, and you know what, I'm not
blaming them because they're just understaffed, right, but they just said,
don't get your hopes up. They know who this guy was.

(15:45):
And we just said, no, that's not good enough. This guy,
prior to our daughter coming forward, he had done this
to twelve other people that women came forward.

Speaker 5 (15:57):
So this is because of our daughter.

Speaker 6 (15:59):
Because of our daughter, this hit home like nothing else could.
So this is when we said, Okay, enough is enough.
We have to do something, starting with their criminal justice system.
And that's when Victor said, we either fight or we move.

Speaker 4 (16:14):
Yeah, like many other people, you know, there has been
a mass exit of out of Colorado, even families generationally
here they just go we can't take it anymore. We
can't risk our children or grandkids because of the level
of crime. There's not a sense of safety and security anymore, affordability,
people being pushed out, and that's a sad reality that

(16:39):
can be reversed, that can be changed.

Speaker 5 (16:41):
But it goes back to leadership.

Speaker 4 (16:43):
And this young officer, great guy, officer Rigby, he's writing
a report when he said, you, guys, we know who
he is. He's a professional predator. At least don't get
your hopes up too high. We've been trying to catch
them for over a year. I remember looking at him
and said, you don't know who I am. You don't
know who we are, and we end up catching him.

(17:06):
I told him, our team will catch him. He's like,
and what was funny? Actually he paused, he goes he
looked at me because it was all business, and he
looked right at me. I took my son Glass off.
He's like, oh my gosh, I do know who you are?
And I said, well, then you know what I say
I do. We end up capturing that guy, but it

(17:26):
was the failure of the police to respond again an
appropriate amount of time that they couldn't take him in custody.
So he was ultimately captured a couple of weeks later
out of an out of state brought back and here's
the thing that breaks my heart from my daughter, who's
a fighter. She's just like her mom. We go to
the court and you know about this. He waves his

(17:50):
right to speedy trial.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
What on?

Speaker 4 (17:52):
And he's like, So the prosecutor tells us. When we
walk out, she goes, he's going to take a plea deal.
I said, well, what is it. She goes, it's three years.
I said, wait a minute, he's a registered sex offender. Yeah,
twelve other women have come forward. You have four felonies
against them, three but them miss the man. I'm like,

(18:12):
how can this be? And she said it is. There's
nothing we can do that can make his sentencing harder.

Speaker 3 (18:21):
Well, and I want to ask you about that when
we come back, because, as I lean referred to, I
do think law enforcement is understaffed. They're underfunded, they're undersupported.
Prosecutors are saddled with these laws that are intentionally weak,
as George Brockler would say. And so when we come back,
going to ask Victor Marx's running for governor, what are

(18:43):
you going to do about it?

Speaker 2 (18:43):
Yeah, so we'll come back. We'll start there here on
the Dan Capla show.

Speaker 7 (18:57):
You're listening to the Dankaplas Show podcast.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
Boy, glad you're here. I think you'll be glad you
are here too. Victor and Eileen Marx and Studio. Victor
is running for governor of the state of Colorado. He
and Eileen have been married for thirty seven years and
partners and all sorts of different endeavors, including a ministry,
and their ministry called all Things Possible. So we've been
talking that the fascinating biography and background in the first

(19:20):
two segments, and you can pull that off. The podcast
going to shift into some issue stuff now. And so Victor,
as we talked before the break, we were talking about
the horrific experience that you and Eileen have been going
through as your daughter is a victim of a sex assault.
Then you detailed how you've tried to work through the
process to hold the perpetrator accountable protect others.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
And so it's your.

Speaker 3 (19:46):
Dissatisfaction, your disappointment in the criminal justice system, in the
state of our laws, etc. That it sounds like was
a factor in you getting into this race.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
So if you could just.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
Launch from there and tell people how Victor Marx as
go is going to make the states safer.

Speaker 4 (20:01):
Yeah, it's stronger than a dissatisfaction. It's a shock, a
horrific attacker on a daughter, and the outcomes that just
aren't fair. And I'm used to unfair and injustice, but
I worked my.

Speaker 5 (20:18):
Whole life to provide safety for my children.

Speaker 4 (20:21):
And here she is, broad Daylight, nice area of Colorado Springs.
She gets attacked. We see the understaffing of the police department,
law enforcement. But when we came out of the courtroom
and that the prosecutor said three years as the max
or plea bargain it. But he'll only spend about a

(20:42):
year and a half in jail. He'll get out and
he'll do the same. My daughter was in tears. Me
as a father and my bride, the Mama Bear, were
just thinking how can this be? And I looked at
her and I said, what can we do? I never forget.
She lived right at me and said change the legislation.

(21:06):
And I said, I'm running for governor. We're going to
get it done. And she looked up shocked and goes,
I believe you, because that is one thing about me
and us. If I see it, we're going to do it.
People say you're running. I got yes, I'm running to win.
It's I'm not a politician, I'm a leader, and we're

(21:30):
solution oriented and we've entered into some of the most
horrific situations around the world and provided solutions that others couldn't.
And I think it's important that people understand my background
before I start pontificating on the normal rhetoric politics and

(21:51):
politicians do. They just make up, Oh, I'm going to
do this and that, and I'm like, people don't care
anymore what politicians say.

Speaker 5 (21:59):
They don't. They're fed up with talk.

Speaker 4 (22:04):
They want to know who's going to do because all
we have is empty promises year after year after year.
So I'll give you a couple of instances for your audience.
When a mass attacked Israel, I got a call from
a special operations guy and he said, Victory, are you
taking your team in? I said, I have no plans.
He said, what does it take. I said, as always,

(22:26):
access and placement. I'll put a team together, but it
has to be an official invitation. Within a few days,
seventy two hours, it was all presented to me. So
we put our team together. We went into Israel. What
everyone was fleeing. The airport was empty except for us
going in, and we were able to mobilize through the

(22:50):
goodness of our donors because I don't take government money.
I've never believed in using government, any government, because I
want to stay anonymous, you know, free to do what
we feel like should be done without strings. Attacks, we
brought a team in. Let me tell you, we helped
over six thousand children who had been affected because of

(23:11):
the attacks. I went into areas that no one could
get into, including Gaza, and we helped children on both sides.

Speaker 5 (23:21):
So that's that is our heart.

Speaker 4 (23:23):
And we were able to effectively help the IDFs Special
Operations community and build those relationships. But we couldn't do
anything till we had boots on the ground. We started
meeting with the right people and then we executed a
really incredible plan which ended up we stayed there for
two different months, and to this day, I've got people

(23:45):
both Palestinians and Israelis endorsed me for governor.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
Of all things, I don't think any other candidates can
say that. Yeah, but no, But so this must seem
easy after that.

Speaker 4 (24:01):
That's just one of over a decade of very very
difficult missions, and it is easy to me. I think
what we have to do first is win because people
don't talk about everything else. Nothing happens unless I win
that seat.

Speaker 5 (24:19):
So how do you do it? Well, you.

Speaker 4 (24:23):
Energize the Republican Party to bring them out of the appathy.

Speaker 5 (24:26):
Roger, like you stated, it's twenty.

Speaker 4 (24:31):
Show for voting on this last I don't blame many
Republicans or people. They're just tired of losing. And then
we're not.

Speaker 5 (24:42):
Going to lose. We never do, do you know.

Speaker 4 (24:45):
To this day, over one hundred and fifty missions. Somebody
asked me on it was on when they go It
was a mission Tahiti, very very this was this year,
and they just said you better be ready for your
first loss. I said no, because the odds were overwhelming.

(25:05):
And I said, we've never felt at a mission. We've
had to change things around. We've had to be flexible.
You'll blessed all the flexible. They won't be broken, but
we won't fail at this. The first thing we're going
to do is, and it's happening, we're energizing the Republican Party.

Speaker 5 (25:21):
We have I mean, I love it.

Speaker 4 (25:25):
We start and within three weeks we have donations from
every county inside Colorado, all sixty four counties.

Speaker 5 (25:33):
I'm like, oh my gosh. And then we have.

Speaker 4 (25:36):
Over six hundred volunteers waiting to be mobilized. We've got endorsements,
and I mean we need endorsements. People call us all
the way from the White House and I'm like, well,
let me get settled, let me find out the heart
of everything, and there's a process. The second is to
unite the party. The Republican Party is as a matter

(25:59):
of it's so dysfunctional it's embarrassing. Our first state Central
Committee meeting, I'm like, two hours into it, my bride
only goes, should we just leave? I've never seen anything
this disorganize, volatile, and I'm like, no, wonder, no wonder

(26:20):
people left the Republican Party became independence. I'm like, I would,
This is insane.

Speaker 5 (26:26):
Who can you try?

Speaker 4 (26:27):
There's no this is insane. Now we finished the whole
five and a half hours and they never were able
to vote on the one thing they didn't went there for.
So pulling the Republican Party together, I'm convinced by studying it.
When I say study, my cheek code is I surround
myself with people far better than me in areas of

(26:49):
expertise that I don't need to be deep in the weeds.
But I have the best people, and we realize the
only way to bring the Republican Party of Colorado together
is a governor's race.

Speaker 5 (27:03):
Period.

Speaker 4 (27:04):
It's one time the hatfields of McCoy's can stop fighting
and go, let's.

Speaker 5 (27:10):
What do we need to do to accomplish.

Speaker 4 (27:12):
And it's not just to turn the state red, although
that's a very popular term. Flip the state red, and
I get it. But I'm telling you, I'm not just
for the Republicans. I'm for the independence. I'm even for
some Democrats who are sick and tired of the crime,
the challenges that they didn't move here to Colorado. For
many of them, it's changing, it has changed. There's a

(27:37):
tipping point of pressure and pain that makes people go,
we needly need leadership, and I think that's what we're
going to bring.

Speaker 3 (27:44):
Oh yeah, and these you know, so many moms and
lots of dads too. But but so many moms who
vote for Democrats all the time. They love their children
more than they love the Democratic Party.

Speaker 5 (27:54):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (27:54):
And if somebody is going to provide their children with
a safer life and a better future, you know, I
think that's what it's gonna take. But let's hit this
break when we come back and our last segment today.
But as I mentioned to you too before we started,
there's an open door here truly to you and all candidates.
Thank you, and you're always welcome to pop on. And

(28:14):
I really truly believe that candidates from either party, you know,
who have the confidence and the skills and ability to
take advantage of talk radio, whether it's this show or
any other show, you know, they're gonna be way ahead
of everybody else just because it's such a great way
to connect with people and have a long form conversation.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
So when we come back, let's use.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
Last segment and just do quick hits on some of
the big issues, yep, and then hopefully get you back soon. Okay,
Victor and Eileen Mars in studio, Victor obviously running for
governor of the great state of Colorado. Before I hit
this break, Victor, what's that website again? For the website?
Website for the campaign.

Speaker 5 (28:51):
Victor twenty twenty six dot com.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
Victor twenty twenty six dot com. You're on the Dan
Kapla Show.

Speaker 7 (28:59):
And now back to The Dan Kapla Show podcast.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
The last segment today with Victor Marx running for governor
of a great state of Colorado, his wife and partner
in so many different ways, I.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
Lean with us.

Speaker 3 (29:09):
Also, you can get deep into the background of Victor
and I Leen and his fascinating life story if you
go to the podcast and pick up the earlier part
of the hour. And I'm sure Victory you'll be back
often and hopefully with I Lean as well. But let's
do a quick touch on some of the big issues
and then we can deep dive the next time we
get together. So in no particular order, we've talked crime,

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but what about energy in this state?

Speaker 2 (29:36):
What would your energy policy be?

Speaker 4 (29:38):
Oh, my gosh, all in gas needs to come back
here in a big way. I'm from Louisiana, Texas. I've
got family in the ol field industry, tons of friends,
and what a great way to put a shot in
the arm for the economy here in Colorado.

Speaker 5 (29:55):
It's a no brainer.

Speaker 4 (29:57):
I'm I talked to a young girl today, three years old,
and I said, what's your biggest concerns? I was at
I was out doing some businesses. She's like, oh, thanks
for asking, and she said, paying my electrical bill and
a lady said that, and.

Speaker 5 (30:12):
Then crime was another for this girl.

Speaker 4 (30:15):
She goes, I lived in an apartment complex where my
car was caught on fire, and so affordability and energy
comes in that. But yeah, I'm convinced that this Western
conservative mindset of the people of Colorado needs to come back,

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you know which I've always I always looked at Colorado's
people who are gritty but with grace.

Speaker 5 (30:43):
They work hard, they love hard.

Speaker 4 (30:46):
That's why it's been very unselling to see what we
would call on the military and intelligence or an insurgency
that happened a number of years ago. So in essence,
we're kind of doing a counterinsurgency to take it back.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
And speaking of portability, quality of life, what do you
do about that, tough not of health care?

Speaker 5 (31:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (31:06):
Yeah, what would the Victor Marx administration do about healthcare?

Speaker 4 (31:12):
Well, want first surround myself with the experts, because to
make promises from here without having the experts around it,
that's not fair. I know this that being in a
position to make good decisions and have favor with the
Trump administration, that's going to.

Speaker 5 (31:30):
Help a lot.

Speaker 4 (31:32):
And we already have people contacting us. It's I think policism,
the leaders have painted themselves on a corner of desperation
that ends up affecting people, not them. Health Care is
just one of them. And you know what, we we've
had children. One of our children was born here. We've
buried Ilean's mom here, and we have five children, five grandkids.

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We want three of our children to move here with
our grandkids. But they're waiting for the state to change.
And I'll tell you something else, recording that thousands, thousands,
there will be an unbelievable influx of people moving to
Colorado when I'm elected.

Speaker 5 (32:15):
We hear it, we see it. It's hard to And for.

Speaker 3 (32:19):
Me, a foundational issue has always been the life issue,
right because if they kill you before you're born, all
these other issues don't matter much.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
So what would your policy be on abortion?

Speaker 4 (32:29):
Well, I'm a child advocate, always had been. It'd be
hypocritical for me not to protect children and the one
who are humans. So there's only two choices, life or death,
and I am for life.

Speaker 3 (32:42):
And as governor of the state of Colorado, is there
anything that you would want to do in particular to
try to stop children from being killed before birth?

Speaker 5 (32:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (32:54):
Absolutely, Well, one the people voted, it's in. You know,
people are so I can't go in and you know,
do the magical trick. But what we can do is
help women, help young women who would have an alternative.
You know, I work with doctor Dobson. When the ultrasound
machines and that came out, baby started being saved. I

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think we can help young women and women in general.
They don't have to go all the way to killing
a child. There are millions of people that would want
to adopt a child right now, so providing for them.
And you know, I hear this from people who are
pro choice, you don't care about kids.

Speaker 5 (33:37):
Afterwards, I'm like, WHOA.

Speaker 4 (33:38):
They're like, what about a kid who's you know, can't
be brought into a stable environment and be abused and whatnot.

Speaker 5 (33:45):
Well, guess what. I was a kid.

Speaker 4 (33:47):
The night my mom got pregnant, my father shoved Rose
three beats down her throat and put a pistol to
her head. My mother had four other children she could
have justifiably by culture killed me me, got rid of me.

Speaker 5 (34:01):
But she didn't. And did I have a hell of
a childhood? I sure did.

Speaker 4 (34:05):
But you know what, I never gave up whether I
was being tortured, whether I was being beaten. I never
gave up. I just wanted to get older. And guess
what if my mother would have awarded me, there would
be forty five thousand women and children just in the
Middle East that wouldn't have been impacted by our lives.

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So yeah, I don't think we abandoned. I don't think
we beat down. I think we help help them come
to a different position and reached the heart of girls
and men, because remember, men often look at abortion as
a form of birth control, which is absolutely dishonoring and
it's horrible. Men are better than that, And I think

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we reached the heart of men and women, which is
one of my goals, which is why I wrote The
Dangerous Gentlemen to change the culture of manhood and masks.
The best compliment my broad ever gave me when we
were dating, she goes, I've never dated a gentleman, and
that still today is one of the best compliments she

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ever gave me.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
Is that what you mean, Victor, by the culture of masculinity?

Speaker 4 (35:16):
Yeah, it's it's there seems to be an intentional effort
to feminize men, to make them not want to do
the basic things. Stay behind a keyboard, you know, instead
of getting off the couch. And I'm not putting down guys,

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but I want to pick up.

Speaker 3 (35:37):
I'm sorry the music means that this is the end
of our hour, but so grateful that you and Eileen
have been here and let's pick up right there. We
really get together the next time soon. Thank you for
being here.