JTA — Florida GOP leaders, candidates and a university president are denouncing a group chat in which local Young Republican leaders made numerous antisemitic and racist remarks. Some are calling for its orchestrator to be removed from his position in the local Republican Party. But a prominent Jewish Republican in Florida, Representative Randy Fine, responded to a Jewish Telegraphic Agency request for comment without condemning the group chat. “Given your stories are fabricated, you don’t need me to comment to make them up,” Fine, who is part of the party’s far-right flank, said via a text. Fine has previously objected...
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