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Spencer Cox
@spencercox· Republican · UT· Sep 12, 2025

And yet, all of us have an opportunity right now to do something different.

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Spencer Cox
@spencercox· Republican · UT· Sep 12, 2025

There is one person responsible for what happened here, and that person is now in custody and will be charged soon and will be held accountable.

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Spencer Cox
@spencercox· Republican · UT· Sep 12, 2025

Your generation has an opportunity to build a culture that is very different than what we are suffering through right now.

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Spencer Cox
@spencercox· Republican · UT· Sep 12, 2025

Social media is a cancer on our society.

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Kathy Hochul
@kathyhochul· Democratic · NY· Sep 12, 2025

I’ve said I don’t want to raise income taxes on high-net-worth people. I want them to know that New York is a place where we want to foster innovation — be open to your success

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Kathy Hochul
@kathyhochul· Democratic · NY· Sep 12, 2025

I have a lot of respect for him for saying that and that he is going to do what he can to earn the respect of the men or women of the NYPD

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Sep 11, 2025

Political violence unfortunately has been ratcheting up in this country.

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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· FL· Sep 11, 2025

Now, this is obviously a premeditated assassination to try to snuff out an opposing viewpoint.

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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· FL· Sep 11, 2025

No, but I think it flows from this intolerance to opposing ideas.

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Spencer Cox
@spencercox· Republican · UT· Sep 11, 2025

We cannot do our job without the public’s help

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Tim Kaine
@timkaine· Democratic · VA· Sep 11, 2025

We got a colleague, Mark Kelly, whose life was unalterably shaped by political violence. President Trump survived an assassination attempt, and then another assassination plot was foiled. It’s just too common.

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Spencer Cox
@spencercox· Republican · UT· Sep 11, 2025

More than 7,000 tips have been provided to the FBI in the manhunt for Charlie Kirk’s killer. The agency has not seen a number that large since the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013.

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Spencer Cox
@spencercox· Republican · UT· Sep 11, 2025

We pray that God will bless our nation at this very dark time, we can start healing by finding this perpetrator and holding him accountable. And we need your help to do that.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Sep 11, 2025

The attack on Charlie Kirk is disgusting, vile, and reprehensible. In the United States of America, we must reject political violence in EVERY form.

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Sep 10, 2025

There are people who are fomenting it [political violence] in this country. I think the president’s rhetoric often foments it.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Sep 10, 2025

The attack was disgusting, vile, and reprehensible. In the United States of America, we must reject political violence in EVERY form.

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Doug Burgum
@dougburgum· Republican · ND· Sep 10, 2025

Overturning the rule protects our American way of life and gives our communities a voice in the land that they depend on.

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Mark Warner
@markwarner· Democratic · VA· Sep 10, 2025

This is the kind of thing that happens in authoritarian regimes.

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Rick Scott
@rickscott· Republican · FL· Sep 10, 2025

I ask every American to join me in praying for him, his family, and every student gathered there.

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Spencer Cox
@spencercox· Republican · UT· Sep 10, 2025

I just want to remind people that we still have the death penalty in the state of Utah.

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Josh Shapiro
@joshshapiro· Democratic · PA· Sep 10, 2025

The attack on Charlie Kirk is horrifying and this growing type of unconscionable violence cannot be allowed in our society.

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Spencer Cox
@spencercox· Republican · UT· Sep 10, 2025

We will bring to justice the individual responsible for this tragedy.

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