(CNN) — Republican Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro condemned the rise of political violence during a joint interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, calling on politicians, including President Donald Trump, to help lower the temperature in the country.

The two responded on Tuesday to the president’s comments criticizing Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar during a rally in Pennsylvania. The president said his administration “ought to get her the hell out” of the United States and disparaged her home country as “filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime.”

Cox stressed that it’s possible to call for Omar to be voted out of office without attacking her religion or ethnic background.

“I know that the president disagrees with me,” he said, later adding: “I un

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