"The initiative took on added significance in September when the right-wing firebrand Charlie Kirk was murdered while giving an open-air talk at Utah Valley University in Orem. Cox was right to seize the occasion to repeat his call for Americans to reject political violence, turn down the temperature, get off social media algorithms that deliberately fry your brain, and learn to talk rather than fight. He took advantage of the increased media focus to take his message to such prominent news outlets as on CBS and NPR's Morning Edition."
"Cox has earned himself a lot of national media attention recently for what he calls the " Disagree Better" campaign, launched a couple of years ago with a bipartisan collective of other U.S. governors. He has appeared with Democrats including Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, and Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania to promote the idea."
""I'm not asking anybody to hold hands and hug it out," he told CBS correspondent Scott Pelley. "I'm trying to get people to stop shooting each other.""
Spencer Cox, the Republican governor of Utah, promotes a "Disagree Better" campaign urging Americans to reject political violence and lower political temperature. He partnered with bipartisan governors and appeared with Democratic leaders including Jared Polis, Michelle Lujan Grisham, and Josh Shapiro to advance civil discourse. The campaign gained heightened attention after Charlie Kirk was murdered while speaking at Utah Valley University, prompting Cox to press for stepping away from inflammatory social media algorithms and learning to talk rather than fight. Cox emphasizes preventing shootings and reducing rhetoric, even as questions arise about his political alliances with MAGA figures.
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