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Gov. Spencer Cox reflects on his call for peace on the anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s assassination

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A day after the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox met briefly with his closest circle of confidants. The manhunt for Kirk’s killer was still underway. It would be another several hours before the alleged shooter would turn himself in to Washington County police. Cox was tired. His friends could see it in his eyes. Beyond conducting a statewide law enforcement operation throughout the night, he felt the pressure of knowing his updates to the public were more than that. The American people didn’t just want to know who had killed one of the most well-known Republican influencers in the country, they wanted to know what to do about it. It was, without a doubt, “one of the darkest days in Utah’s history,” Cox told the Deseret News. A public assassination in the United States unlike anything else in more than half a century. To Cox, who had spent the previous half-decade trying to raise the alarm about toxic polarization, the moment resembled a “powde

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