Governor GOES OFF on leaked texts of GOP officials

Question?

Politico reported on a group chat of a bunch of young Republicans.

I'm wondering your thoughts on that, and does this reflect, you know, is it just some

bad, you know, apples in this chat, or do you think that there's a toxicity around

the entire party?

Some bad apples? These are the future of the Republican Party. This was so vile, it is hard to find the words to put into context that these are people who are part of a political party, one of two major political parties, and they believe in gas chambers and rape and discrimination based on the color of people's skin. These are racist, sexist, disgusting remarks.

And I would say this. We have a leader from the Republican Party in this state, the highest ranking individual, who in the backdrop of all this calls our candidate for mayor, one of our candidates for mayor, a jihadist and a terrorist, and then somehow says, oh, what they said, these young Republicans was wrong. Look at what you say yourself. Look at your inflammatory words.

And maybe they have an effect on these young people, many of whom you support and have supported you. And you ought to just do a little re-examination of how far this has gone, where this is normalized enough that thousands of texts are uncovered. This is not one person saying they love Hitler.

This is a whole lot of people saying things that are so disgusting and so abhorrent that everybody from the president on down should condemn them. And there's got to be consequences. Kick them out of the party. Take away their official roles. Stop using them as campaign advisors. There needs to be consequences. There needs to be consequences.

This bullshit has to stop.