The fallout from a Politico report on leaked Young Republican group chats continued Wednesday, with GOP leaders denouncing the messages and several participants losing their jobs.

The reporting revealed thousands of messages exchanged among leaders and members of the Young Republican National Federation (YRNF) and state affiliates, filled with racist slurs, violent rhetoric and jokes about rape and gas chambers. One member wrote that “everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber,” in reference to a YRNF chairman election, according to Politico. Others referred to Black people as “monkeys” or “the watermelon people.”

Several participants faced immediate consequences. William Hendrix, a vice chair of the Kansas Young Republicans, was fired from the Kansas attorney general’s office. H

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