James Fishback called Byron Donalds' donors a "slave auction" and said he would turn Florida into a "Section 8 ghetto."
Now Democrats have a racist group chat to weaponize against the man Trump endorsed to be Florida's next governor.
But Donalds just made sure they can't use it.
Inside the Miami-Dade GOP Racist Group Chat
The Miami Herald broke the story Wednesday.
A WhatsApp group chat called "Uber Retards Yapping Inc." – created by Miami-Dade Republican Party Secretary Abel Alexander Carvajal – had been filling up with racial slurs, antisemitic rhetoric, and explicit calls for violence against Black people since last fall.
The N-word appeared over 400 times.
Dariel Gonzalez, then the FIU College Republicans membership director, posted "Total Negro Death!"
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Another member posted a lengthy list of specific ways to kill Black people – crucifixion, dissection, beheading.
The group later renamed itself "Gooning in Agartha," a white nationalist reference to a mythical Aryan homeland.
Gonzalez was simultaneously applying for a Miami-Dade GOP committeeman role while writing those messages.
Ian Valdes, president of FIU's Turning Point USA chapter – the organization Charlie Kirk built and died for – joined in freely.
On Jewish women: he "would def not marry a Jew."
Carvajal administered the chat for months and deleted at least 42 of his own messages and 14 others.
He has since resigned.
FIU police are now investigating in coordination with local, state, and federal law enforcement.
How Byron Donalds Responded to the Miami GOP Chat Scandal
Donalds did not hedge.
When The Floridian asked for comment, he gave them the only answer that matters: "The Republican Party rejects racism, antisemitism, and bigotry."
The full statement went further.
"Everyone has the First Amendment right to say what they want – even when it's vile and offensive," Donalds said. "But free speech doesn't entitle someone to hold a leadership position within the Republican Party or the conservative movement."
https://twitter.com/factpostnews/status/2029285295238046198?s=20
Senator Rick Scott backed him immediately, saying anyone who engaged in the behavior should be "held accountable" and that "racists and antisemites are not welcome in the Republican Party."
The Miami-Dade GOP board voted to request Carvajal's resignation and launched removal proceedings.
The Republican Party of Florida opened an internal review.
The party acted.
The offenders are being removed.
Democrats Are Already Using the Racist Chat Against the Florida Governor Race
The moment this chat leaked, Democrat operatives in South Florida started sharpening their knives.
Christian Ulvert, a Democrat consultant advising Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, put it on the record: "The vile, racist and antisemitic messages exposed from a group chat administered by the leadership of the Miami-Dade Republican Party should open the eyes of many in our community."
Translation: they are going to run this in every swing district in Florida from now until November 2026.
A few fringe students post racist garbage in a private chat, the party removes them immediately, and Democrats spend the next eighteen months pretending the Miami-Dade Republican Party is a Nazi organization.
They ran this same play four months ago.
In October 2025, Politico reported on leaked Telegram messages from Young Republican leaders in Arizona, Vermont, Kansas, and New York – gas chamber jokes, racial slurs, neo-Nazi references.
Republicans condemned it, people lost their jobs, then Democrats used it to paint the entire party.
The Miami chat is the second rodeo. Same playbook.
Why This Is an Attack on Trump's Agenda
Byron Donalds is running to become Florida's first black governor and the first Black Republican governor in modern American history.
He has raised $50 million. He leads every poll by double digits once voters learn Trump endorsed him.
https://twitter.com/PollTracker2024/status/2029361101540888978?s=20
Trump called him "a TOTAL WINNER" and said he would work closely with the America First agenda in Tallahassee.
His opponent James Fishback – a hedge fund manager drawing 6% support among Republican primary voters – has spent the entire campaign throwing racial grenades at Donalds to win far-right internet votes.
Fishback compared Donalds' donors to a slave auction.
He said Donalds would turn Florida into a "Section 8 ghetto."
Fishback's campaign reportedly had ties to several of the students involved in the chat.
Democrats don't actually care about the racist chat.
If they did, they would have condemned Fishback's attacks on Donalds months ago.
They said nothing.
They are using this chat as a weapon against Trump's chosen candidate – and the moment Donalds wins the primary, they will deploy it in the general election.
Donalds condemned it clearly, the party removed the offenders, and he moved on.
That is how you defuse the weapon before Democrats can load it.
The question isn't whether the Republican Party handled this correctly. It did.
The question is whether Florida voters are going to let Democrats turn three fringe students into an indictment of the man Trump trusts to keep Florida free.
Sources:
- Ericka Piñon, "Byron Donalds Condemns Racist, Antisemitic Miami GOP Group Chat," The Floridian, March 5, 2026.
- Kevin J. Cooper, Statement on Carvajal Resignation, Miami-Dade Republican Party, March 5, 2026.
- "Republicans Condemn Racist Group Chat Created by Miami GOP Official," Axios Miami, March 5, 2026.
- "Bipartisan Calls for Accountability Mount After Racist, Antisemitic GOP Chat Revealed," Florida Politics, March 5, 2026.
- "Nine Florida State Senators Endorse Byron Donalds in 2026 Governor's Race," FL Voice News, February 27, 2026.
