Florida Republican leaders are calling on Miami GOP Secretary Abel Alexander Carvajal to resign after revelations that he was involved in a conservative group chat filled with racial slurs, among other offensive content.
Miami-Dade County Republican Party Chairman Kevin Cooper said “anyone associated with this chat should resign immediately,” while Republican state Rep. Juan Porras on Wednesday called on Carvajal directly to step down, describing the messages as “deeply disturbing and completely unacceptable.”
Carvajal started the group chat primarily for conservative students at Florida International University last fall. Leaked messages showed participants exchanged an onslaught of racial slurs aimed against Jews and black people, including from Dariel Gonzalez, the College Republicans’ recruitment chairman at the time, and Ian Valdes, the Turning Point USA chapter president. Carvajal participated occasionally, and deleted some messages, but didn’t shut down the chat, according to the Miami Herald.
In the messages, Gonzalez said, “You can f*** all the k***s you want. Just don’t marry them and procreate,” warning about the risk of having “a little k*** running arounddddd.” Valdes responded, “I would def not marry a Jew.”
In another antisemitic exchange, Valdes changed the group chat name to “Gooning in Agartha,” referencing slang for male masturbation, and the mythical civilization promoted by Adolf Hitler’s top henchman, Heinrich Himmler. Valdes described Agartha as “esoteric nazism essentially,” while Gonzalez said it was “Nazi heaven sort of.”
In another exchange, Valdes said, “We need to have a moratorium on immigration temporarily unless it’s someone from a first world country….Yeah I obviously mean whites.”
Some chat users also used derogatory language about women, while others frequently used the word “n*****” and additional disparaging and violent comments against black people. “Ew you had colored professors?!” Gonzalez wrote. “I reguse [sic] to be indoctrinated by the coloreds.” He later said, “Avoid the coloreds like the plague.”
In another exchange detailed in the Floridian Press, a user sent a series of violent messages about wanting to “exterminate n*****s in the gas chamber” and “eat n*****s,” among a stream of similar language. Gonzalez replied, “How edgy.”
Carvajal, the Miami GOP secretary who initially created the chat, said that “had I known and had I seen some of these messages, I would have called the police.” When asked if he would resign, Carvajal said, “Of course not … for a chat where the messages that were stated were not mine.”
Porras suggested that, as someone in a leadership role, Carvajal’s failure to end the chat and take other actions was unacceptable and called on him to step down. The state representative, who is also a Miami-Dade GOP state committee member, reiterated that “Hatred toward Jewish Americans, racist rhetoric, calls for violence, all these ideas have no place in our party, our state, or our country.”
“Leadership carries responsibility,” Porras said. “When someone in a leadership role engages in this kind of behavior, it damages the trust placed in our party by voters across Florida. The Republican Party stands for law, order, and respect for every American. We believe in the dignity of every person.”
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Cooper said that as the first Jewish chairman of the Miami-Dade Republican Party, he was “shocked” by the WhatsApp messages.
“Racism and antisemitism have no place in the Republican Party,” he told the Miami Herald.