Washington • When conservative activist Charlie Kirk was killed at a campus event in Utah in September, the first call Gov. Spencer Cox received was from Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro.

That gesture to a Republican governor from a Democrat whose governor’s mansion was attacked months earlier after he had just concluded a Passover Seder has led the two men to establish a united front against political violence and for depolarization.

“I don’t care what color his politics are,” Cox said, sitting next to Shapiro on Tuesday at an event titled “Toward a Better Politics” at Washington National Cathedral. “In that moment, we were two Americans who were deeply saddened and struggling. And I’m grateful that there’s somebody I can trust even though we disagree on a lot of things. We agree on

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