{"id":201744,"date":"2026-03-22T21:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T21:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/201744\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T21:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T21:56:08","slug":"miami-dade-republican-party-to-discuss-removal-of-secretary-after-group-chat-controversy-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/201744\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami-Dade Republican party to discuss removal of secretary after group chat controversy \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A meeting that could determine the future of a high-ranking official within the Miami-Dade County Republican party is set to take place on Monday after a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/group-chat-allegedly-involving-young-republicans-sparks-investigation\/3777244\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/group-chat-allegedly-involving-young-republicans-sparks-investigation\/3777244\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> group chat <\/a>allegedly involving young Republicans sparked an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The secretary of the Miami-Dade Republicans, Abel Carvajal, is accused of starting a group chat on WhatsApp that included dozens of racist, antisemitic and violent comments.<\/p>\n<p>The chat involved students with connections to FIU\u2019s College Republicans and also the university\u2019s Turning Point USA chapter.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, TPUSA&#8217;s chapter president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/fiu-turning-point-usa-chapter-president-steps-down-after-group-chat-controversy\/3779080\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/fiu-turning-point-usa-chapter-president-steps-down-after-group-chat-controversy\/3779080\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">resigned <\/a>from the position.<\/p>\n<p>Carvajal has not responded to NBC6&#8217;s calls or text messages for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting on Monday evening with the Miami-Dade Republican Party will discuss removing Carvajal as secretary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A meeting that could determine the future of a high-ranking official within the Miami-Dade County Republican party is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,373],"class_list":["post-201744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}