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Governor Spencer Cox appears at a press conference at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. (Tess Crowley/The Deseret News via AP)
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, Spencer Cox and Bernie Sanders have both treated us like adults.
By Peter Savodnik
09.13.25 — U.S. Politics
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This article is part of a Free Press series on “Repairing America in the Age of Political Violence.” Read the other entries, including from Abigail Shrier, Coleman Hughes, Sam Harris and others, here.

On Friday morning, the Republican governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, gave a speech that Americans have been awaiting for nearly a decade.

It came at a press conference at which authorities announced the arrest of Tyler Robinson, the suspected shooter in Wednesday’s fatal shooting of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.

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Peter Savodnik
Peter Savodnik is senior editor at The Free Press. Previously, he wrote for Vanity Fair as well as GQ, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Wired, and other publications, reporting from the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, South Asia, and across the United States. His book, The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union, was published in 2013.
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