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

I hear all the time that words are violence, words are not violence. Violence is violence.

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Kay Ivey
@kayivey· Republican · AL· Sep 12, 2025

They got him! Now, justice must be served for Charlie Kirk, for his family and for our country.

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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

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

suspected Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson hated Kirk because of his political views

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

We can always point the finger at the other side, and at some point we have to find an off-ramp, or it's going to get much, much worse.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Sep 12, 2025

a great opportunity for us to make sure that all companies are reassured that when you come to the United States, you’ll know what the rules of the game are.

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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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Kathleen Hochul
@kathleenhochul· 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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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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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

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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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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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· Republican · 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· Republican · FL· Sep 11, 2025

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

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