"I would hope that Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah is the voice that wins out at the end of the day. I don't know that I'm optimistic, but I think he's largely been pitch-perfect in this. And I'm still remembering, there is a 31-year-old man, who I didn't necessarily agree with on many things, but who's dead today and whose wife doesn't have him, and kids will be raised without him."
"But I want to push back on this notion when this happened, all I thought was, I hope we get the perpetrator and can this please stop happening in our country? In this rush that people have to point and say, Well, it's the left or it's the right, and it's only one side. It's not true, guys. I remember where I was during the Steve Scalise shooting, I was working on Capitol Hill, several of my bosses were there. We didn't know if they were okay for hours."
Alyssa Farah Griffin favors Gov. Spencer Cox's call to lower the political temperature rather than President Donald Trump's attribution of blame to the radical left. Griffin described Cox's response as largely pitch-perfect and urged de-escalation. Griffin emphasized the human cost of political life by recalling a 31-year-old man killed and the impact on his family. Griffin rejected the notion that political violence comes from only one side, citing past attacks such as the Steve Scalise shooting, the Paul Pelosi attack, and attempts on Donald Trump's life. Griffin warned that partisan certainty blocks solutions and highlighted rhetoric, radicalization, and isolation as dangerous drivers.
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