US EditionFIU Continues to Investigate Racist Group Chat Messages as the Leader of Their Turning Point USA Chapter Resigns
Ian Valdes resigned after WhatsApp chat revealed over 400 uses of racial slurs, prompting investigations and calls for accountability within Miami-Dade GOP circles.
- Ian Valdes, president of Turning Point USA's Florida International University chapter, stepped down this week after the chapter announced it is reconstituting leadership following leaked racist chat messages.
- Logs reviewed by the Miami Herald showed a WhatsApp group chat spanning two and a half weeks in September and October used the n-word more than 400 times with antisemitic, homophobic, and misogynistic slurs.
- FIU and law enforcement opened reviews and investigations into the chat, while Miami‑Dade GOP Secretary Abel Alexander Carvajal refused to resign despite the party board's request last week.
- Party officials and campus groups have demanded resignations and accountability, with Dariel Gonzalez, former FIU College Republicans recruitment chair, removed from a volunteer role and internship.
- Past reporting shows similar chat controversies among young Republican leaders, and observers note a pattern as state and national GOP bodies condemned the remarks and launched investigations.
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FIU continues to investigate racist group chat messages as the leader of their Turning Point USA chapter resigns
Several members of FIU's Turning Point USA chapter, the organization started by late conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, were also reportedly involved in the chat.
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Turning Point USA FIU Chapter President Steps Down Amid Racist Group Chat Scandal
Source: OLIVIER TOURON / Getty The president of Florida International University’s Turning Point USA chapter has resigned after a racist, antisemitic and generally bigoted and violent group chat he participated in got leaked. The N-word-slinging TPUSA leader had to go, otherwise people might think the Charlie Kirk-founded group is the white Christian nationalist organization it definitely is. “The Turning Point USA chapter at Florida Internation…
FIU Turning Point USA chapter president steps down after group chat controversy
Turning Point USA's chapter president at Florida International University is stepping down after a WhatsApp group chat allegedly involving young Republicans stirred emotions and controversy.
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