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Thirty miles northeast of downtown Denver — where the Front Range loosens its grip, subdivisions give way to open fields and pickups outnumber Teslas — is the town of Hudson.

Population 1,652.

Hudson still feels like the kind of place where everybody knows the restaurant they’ll meet at for dinner.

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But it’s not at the Pepper Pod anymore.

Last September, Desmond Holly, a student at Evergreen High School, opened fire on his classmates, injuring two before killing himself.

Colorado Republican gubernatorial nominee Victor Marx said on Tuesday that he will participate in only one debate with Attorney General Phil Weiser before the November election — and he challenged the Democratic nominee to hold the event without a moderator.

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“I’m only doing one debate,” Marx said in a video posted online. “That is my strategy.”

Noting that it’s the same approach he took in the GOP primary — where Marx, a Christian ministry leader and first-time candidate, narrowly
defeated two veteran state lawmakers to win the nomination after debating just once — Marx went on to address Weiser directly.

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What you were about to see is what happens when someone is forced to contend with simple logic that shatters their entire narrative. This is what it looks like.

I’ve never seen it play out so clearly pic.twitter.com/KiYTPs7T9r

— Warren Smith (@WTSmith17) July 29, 2026

“I’m challenging you to a debate with no moderator,” Marx said. “This is going to be a time for us to actually tell the good folks of Colorado what we’re going to do — not make empty promises, but what we’re going to do, and show them how.”