The New York Republican State Committee has voted to suspend its young Republicans group after a group chat was leaked revealing racist and antisemitic messages.
Politico released messages from Young Republican groups across the country in which participants used racial slurs and joked about gas chambers.
Several members of the New York State Young Republicans club - which has thousands of members ages 18 to 40 - were participants in the chat and are alleged to have made offensive comments.
The New York Republican Party chair Ed Cox said the group was "already grossly mismanaged, and vile language of the sort made in the group chat has no place in our party or its subsidiary organizations".
In the messages obtained by Politico, Bobby Walker, who was recently made chair of the New York State Young Republicans, is accused of calling rape "epic".
