Vice President JD Vance said the Young Republican leaders who sent racist and antisemitic messages are kids, but the two Kansans are ages 24 and 29.

Two Arizona members of Congress who are running for governor said the participants in the chatroom need to engage in personal moral improvement.

Vermont state Sen. Samuel Douglass (R) resigned from his post on Friday after being named as a participant in a Young Republican group chat where racist and antisemitic jokes were made. In a Friday statement,

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.

The organization has been suspended after some of its members were revealed to have been in a group chat expressing support for rape, racism and Adolf Hitler.

Did Vice President JD Vance write on his official X account that everyday Oval Office banter is worse than the leaked and criticized Young Republicans' Telegram jokes about Hitler, slavery, gas chambers and rape?

The Young Republicans leaked Telegram chat exposes antisemitic and racist language and that’s troubling | Opinion

Writing for National Review about the matter, Jeffrey Blehar said that Jones was revealing “the scorpions lurking inside his brain” in his exchanges with a former colleague.