{"id":203569,"date":"2026-03-24T07:02:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T07:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/203569\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T07:02:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T07:02:26","slug":"miami-dade-gop-secretary-resigns-over-racist-group-chat-sues-fiu-for-violating-free-speech-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/203569\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami-Dade GOP secretary resigns over racist group chat, sues FIU for violating free speech \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

Abel Carvajal, the secretary of the Miami-Dade County Republican Party, resigned Monday after the discovery of a racist group chat\u00a0<\/a>allegedly involving young Republicans sparked an investigation, according to the county’s GOP chairman.<\/p>\n

Carvajal is accused of starting the group chat on WhatsApp that would come to include dozens of racist, antisemitic and violent comments.<\/p>\n

The Miami-Dade GOP was expected to discuss Carvajal’s fate<\/a> in a meeting on Monday. <\/p>\n

Chairman Kevin J. Cooper said in a statement: “Today, Abel Alexander Carvajal has resigned as Secretary of the Miami Dade GOP. As Chairman of the Republican Party of Miami-Dade County, I want to state clearly: racism and antisemitism have no place in our Republican Party. Not today. Not tomorrow. Not ever. As this ugly episode ends, we reaffirm ourselves to the mission ahead: to elect Republicans to office up and down the ballot. In addition, we continue our many successes in voter registration, outreach, get out the vote, and electing Republicans to local and federal office. I welcome all freedom loving Americans to join us in our effort to Keep America Great. We look forward to campaigning with all communities, discussing the many accomplishments of our Party, and delivering a major Republican victory in November.”<\/p>\n

The group chat in question involved students with connections to FIU\u2019s College Republicans and also the university\u2019s Turning Point USA chapter.<\/p>\n

Recently, TPUSA’s chapter president\u00a0resigned\u00a0<\/a>from the position.<\/p>\n

Following his resignation, Carvajal released a press release announcing that he is suing Florida International University and its president, Jeanette M. Nu\u00f1ez, claiming that his first-amendment were violated for participating in the “off-campus, private group chat that involved speech protected by the First Amendment.”<\/p>\n

Read the lawsuit below: <\/p>\n

Carvajal has not responded to NBC6’s calls or text messages for comment.<\/p>\n

NBC6 has reached out to FIU about the lawsuit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Abel Carvajal, the secretary of the Miami-Dade County Republican Party, resigned Monday after the discovery of a racist…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,373,34527],"class_list":["post-203569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade-county","tag-republican-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203569","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=203569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}