Politico obtained 2,900 pages of exchanges over seven months among a dozen Young Republican leaders in New York, Kansas, Arizona and Vermont.

An explosive new report from Politico exposed thousands of text messages from a Young Republican group chat in which members joked about gas chambers, slavery and rape. The group chat included

Ten members of the Young Republican Federation have been identified after thousands of racially charged messages on Telegram were leaked.

The social media accounts of a number of Young Republicans accused of making offensive comments have been deleted or made private.

The Arizona Young Republicans clearly don’t understand what was wrong with its members’ frolicsome participation in a racist, Nazi-loving text chain exposed in a gangbusters report by Politico. The local chapter released a statement Wednesday night in which the organization firmly rejected “any involvement in the ongoing political witch hunt targeting fellow Young Republican members” over the Telegram group chat reported on Wednesday,

Young Republican leaders' private chats revealed racist, homophobic, and antisemitic language, including Holocaust references. These offensive messages, found across thousands of pages of messages, have sparked outrage and calls for accountability.

The vice president contrasted offensive remarks in a private group chat with texts from a Democratic candidate in Virginia who had suggested a top Republican be killed.

A sitting state senator as well as prominent GOP operatives were in the hateful group chat, but Vance wrote complaints off as "pearl clutching."