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Utah Governor On Kirk Assassination This Is A Tragic Day Fox News

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Utah Gov. Spencer Cox speaks following the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. (Utah News Dispatch) Hours after conservative influencer Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at Utah Valley University on Wednesday, a morose Utah Gov. Spencer Cox took the podium at a news conference alongside state and federal law enforcement officials. Cox — a Republican who has devoted a large part of his political career trying to encourage bipartisanship in an increasingly politically polarized world — did more than condemn Kirk’s killing, calling it a... “This is a dark day for our state,” the governor said.

“It’s a tragic day for our nation.” Though Cox has tried to combat polarization in favor of civil discourse through his Disagree Better campaign, his home state made worldwide headlines for the very thing he’s tried to discourage. Politico’s headline put it this way: “Utah is now the epicenter of the political divide its governor warned about.” While speaking about Kirk’s killing on Wednesday, Cox made another plea. He urged Utahns and Americans to look at the bigger picture of increased political violence happening across the country — and also look inward. Charlie Kirk, a political activist and close ally of President Donald Trump who played an influential role in rallying young Republican voters, was shot and killed Wednesday at a Utah college event in what...

A person of interest was in custody earlier, officials said, but FBI Director Kash Patel said they had been released after interrogation. “This is a dark day for our state. It’s a tragic day for our nation," said Utah Gov. Spencer Cox during a press conference. "I want to be very clear that this is a political assassination.” In his remarks, shown in full in the video player above, Cox emphasized the significance of Kirk being shot on a college campus, calling debates "fundamental to the foundation of the country."

"Charlie believed in the power of free speech and debate to shape ideas and to persuade people," he said. "Historically, our university campuses in this nation and here in the state of Utah have been a place where truth and ideas are formulated and debated, and that's what he does." Utah Gov. Spencer Cox speaks following the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. In a solemn and emotional statement on Wednesday evening, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox declared the fatal shooting of Turning Point USA founder and dad of two, Charlie Kirk, to be a "political assassination" that strikes at the very heart of American democracy.

"This is a dark day for our state. It's a tragic day for our nation," Cox said, denouncing the act as an affront to the Founders' vision that "all men are endowed... with certain inalienable rights. The first one of those is life." The Republican governor reminded Americans that Kirk was "first and foremost a husband and a dad to young children," and that his commitment to free speech was why he was on campus. Charlie believed in the power of free speech and debate to shape ideas and to persuade people…

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