Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania on Tuesday strongly condemned all political violence in the wake of last week's assassination of conservative activist and Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk. (Gilbert Carrasquillo/GC Images)
The Pennsylvania governor in his speech pointed to other high-profile violent political attacks in recent years, including last year's attempted assassination of Trump, and this year's murder of the former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman, a Democrat, and her husband.
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Trump, in an Oval Office address hours after Kirk was killed, blamed "the radical left."
In interviews Friday on Fox News' "Fox and Friends" and Saturday on NBC News, the president took aim at "a radical left group of lunatics."
Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, in a speech on Tuesday, called political violence in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination "unacceptable." (Mark Makela/Getty Images)
And Shapiro lamented, "Unfortunately, some from the dark corners of the internet all the way to the Oval Office want to cherry-pick which instances of political violence they want to condemn."
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The governor argued: "Doing that only further divides us, and it makes it harder to heal. There are some who will hear that selective condemnation and take it as a permission slip to commit more violence. So long as it suits their narrative or only targets the other side."
Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based in the swing state of New Hampshire. He covers the campaign trail from coast to coast."
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