Well-wishers pay their respects at a makeshift memorial for Charlie Kirk at the national headquarters of Turning Point USA in Phoenix, Arizona, after Kirk was killed Wednesday.
Mandatory Credit:	Ross D. Franklin/AP via CNN Newsource

Well-wishers pay their respects at a makeshift memorial for Charlie Kirk at the national headquarters of Turning Point USA in Phoenix, Arizona, after Kirk was killed Wednesday.
Mandatory Credit: Ross D. Franklin/AP via CNN Newsource

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‘We need to do better’: A shaken Washington struggles to come together after Kirk’s death

In a Washington still reeling from the assassination of conservative icon Charlie Kirk, Republicans and Democrats are deeply splintered and fearful that violent threats to political figures will be a regular feature of the country’s bleak new normal.