JD Vance Defends Wildly Racist Young Republican Texts As Boys Being 'Edgy'

<script>!function(n){if(!window.cnx){window.cnx={},window.cnx.cmd=[];var t=n.createElement('iframe');t.display='none',t.onload=function(){var n=t.contentWindow.document,c=n.createElement('script');c.src='//cd.connatix.com/connatix.player.js',c.setAttribute('async','1'),c.setAttribute('type','text/javascript'),n.body.appendChild(c)},n.head.appendChild(t)}}(document);</script><script id="68f07ef8e4b0ab08d318d06f">(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=ff7fdddc-5441-4253-abc4-f12a33fad58b';cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"ff7fdddc-5441-4253-abc4-f12a33fad58b","mediaId":"9bef2a5a-f57a-44ce-9600-7127c7fedd89"}).render("68f07ef8e4b0ab08d318d06f");});</script><div class="content-list-component text"><p>It seems Vice President JD Vance’s biggest problem with the leaked Young Republicans group chat isn’t the highly disturbing, racist messages they reportedly shared, but rather the fact they’re getting in trouble for it.</p><p>In an appearance on rightwing streamer Real America’s Voice on Wednesday, Vance pushed back against the outrage over the so-called “I love Hitler” group chat <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146?nid=0000015a-dd3e-d536-a37b-dd7fd8af0000&amp;nname=playbook-pm&amp;nrid=00000159-d64a-daea-a15d-f7ff3be60000" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Politico</a> exposed on Tuesday, putting multiple leaders of Young Republicans groups on blast for reportedly referring to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people,” for talking about raping and putting their political enemies in gas chambers, and casually praising Adolf Hitler. </p><p>That’s just boys being boys, Vance claimed.</p><p>“