Dozens of House Democrats voted Friday to oppose a resolution honoring Charlie Kirk and condemning political violence following his assassination last week in Utah.

The overwhelming majority of those 58 lawmakers represent one of the minority caucuses — the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), Congressional Hispanic Caucus or Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus — and many said they voted "no" because they didn’t want to extol Kirk’s most controversial political views, which frequently targeted minority communities.

“If this resolution were to simply condemn Charlie Kirk’s murder, it would have had my vote. Unfortunately, it was an attempt to use this tragedy as an opportunity to lionize his beliefs,” said Rep. Sanford Bishop (D-Ga.), a veteran member of the CBC.

“While he was entit

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