‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

David Gilmour Oct 15th, 2025, 7:50 am

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Vice President JD Vance sparked backlash Tuesday after he dismissed “pearl clutching” over racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat while arguing a Virginia Democrat Jay Jones’s violent texts were “far worse.”

The odd defensive line came after Politico published 2,900 pages of leaked exchanges among a dozen state-level Young Republican leaders from New York to Arizona.

The chats included references to Black people as “monkeys” and “the watermelon people,” praise for Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler , and discussions of rape and gas chambers.

Several of the chat memb

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