{"id":5436,"date":"2025-10-16T19:10:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T19:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/?p=5436"},"modified":"2025-10-20T18:41:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:41:02","slug":"vance-tells-democrats-to-grow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/16\/vance-tells-democrats-to-grow-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance tells Democrats to \u2018grow up\u2019\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
The US vice president has defended members of a Republican group after racist and sexist chat messages were leaked<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n The Democrats attacking members of the Young Republican National Federation over leaked offensive online messages should “grow up”<\/em> and focus on the problems in their own party, US Vice President J.D. Vance has said. <\/p>\n On Tuesday, Politico published extracts from a Telegram group chat between members of the organization for Republicans aged 18 to 40 containing multiple racist, sexist and insulting messages. Among other things, participants called African-Americans “watermelon people,”<\/em> described rape as “epic”<\/em> and urged for political opponents to be placed in gas chambers. <\/p>\n “Kick them out of the party. Take away their official roles,”<\/em> Democratic governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, said, commenting on the texts. California Governor Gavin Newsom called the chat “the definition of conduct that can create a hostile and discriminatory environment that violates civil rights laws”<\/em> and demanded an investigation. <\/p>\n \n Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Appearing on The Charlie Kirk podcast on Thursday, Vance argued that the outrage displayed by Democrats was actually meant to distract the public from a recent scandal in their own party. The controversy broke out after it was revealed that Virginia’s Democratic nominee for attorney general, Jay Jones, had written in a 2022 text message that then-House Speaker Todd Gilbert should get “two bullets to the head.”<\/em> <\/p>\n “A person… who is about to become one of the most powerful law enforcement officers in the country [Jones]… seriously wishing for political violence… is a thousand times worse than what a bunch of young people, a bunch of kids say in a group chat, however offensive it might be,”<\/em> Vance said. <\/p>\n “If you allow yourself to be distracted by this person’s… disgusting endorsement of political assassination by focusing on what kids are saying in a group chat – grow up. I’m sorry. Focus on the real issues,”<\/em> he added. <\/p>\n He defended the members of the Young Republican National Federation, saying that “the reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys.”<\/em> <\/p>\n