Spencer Cox first rose to the national scene in the wake of a shooting that shook the nation — a massacre at the Pulse Night Club, a gay bar in Orlando, Florida, that claimed 49 lives. At the time, in 2016, it was the worst mass shooting in the nation’s history.

Then Utah’s lieutenant governor, Cox won praise from pundits and politicos for his raw, compassionate words, confessing his regret over his mistreatment of gay classmates as a young high school student.

“I am speaking now to the straight community,” Cox said at the time . “How did you feel when you heard that 49 people had been gunned down by a self-proclaimed terrorist? That’s the easy question. Here is the hard one: Did that feeling change when you found out the shooting was at a gay bar at 2 a.m. in the morning? If that feel

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