The jokes started before the politics.

On Friday afternoon at the National League of Cities summit in Salt Lake City, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham walked onstage at the Salt Palace comparing their hair — or lack of it.

Cox and moderator Clarence E. Anthony, the CEO and executive director of the National League of Cities, teased each other about their shaved heads. Lujan Grisham, with a grin, joked: “I’m twice your age, but have twice your hair.”

The lighthearted start set the tone for a 30-minute “Bridging Our Divides” conversation that blended humor with more serious topics like political violence, while Lujan Grisham and Cox showed how to bridge bipartisan divides.

‘A new issue in our politics’

The session followed a presentation on the Dignity In

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