A panel on CNN’s NewsNight exploded in anger over the political reaction to highly offensive texts leaked from a Young Republicans group chat that involved references to slavery, gas chambers, and rape.

The Young Republicans called the leaked Telegram chats “vile and inexcusable” in a statement posted to their X account on Tuesday.

However, Vice President JD Vance attempted to downplay the extreme content of the leaked chats by comparing them to a texting scandal where Democratic candidate for Virginia attorney general, Jay Jones, wished death on then-Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert’s children.

Jones has since called sending the texts a “grave mistake.”

“This is far worse than anything said in a college group chat,” Vance wrote in a social media post made to X on Tuesday night, sh

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