Bobby Walker is an American Republican Party operative who served as the chairman of the Association of New York Young Republican Clubs from September to October 2025 who resigned amid the Young Republican group chat leaks.[1][2][3]
Walker served as the vice chair of the New York Young Republicans until September 2025,when he ascended to the role of chair after New York Young Republicans leader Peter Giunta resigned amid financial scandal. During the racist and homophobic group chat,Walker was serving as vice chair.[4]
Walker was slated to manage the congressional campaign of Senator Peter Oberacker,but his job offer was rescinded after Walker's participation in the leaked Young Republican group chat was reported.[3] He previously served as Oberacker's senatorial campaign manager in 2020.[7][full citation needed]
On October 14, 2025, Politico reported on 2,900 pages of leaked Telegram chats, spanning over a seven-month period, from leaders of the Young Republicans in several U.S. states.[4][8] The Politico article argued that "the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely — and where the Trump-era loosening of political norms has made such talk feel less taboo among those positioning themselves as the party's next leaders".[9]
The chat discussed votes, social media strategies, and logistics. It also included racist and antisemitic slurs, white supremacist slogans and symbols, comments encouraging rape of political opponents to drive them to suicide, praise for Adolf Hitler, promotion of gas chambers, and enthusiasm for Republicans believed to support slavery.[9][10] Giunta and its members referred to Black people as monkeys and "the watermelon people". One member stated "I'd go to the zoo if I wanted to watch monkey play ball" about an invitation to an NBA game. The slurs faggot, retard, and nigger appeared over 251 times.[11][12] In discussing Giunta's defeat in an election for chair of the Young Republicans National Federation, Walker called for the winner to be raped.[13] When referring to a colleague's girlfriend, Walker stated she was a "stinky, obese Indian woman". He said would "love to see" an opponent get raped, and described the colonial sexual violence perpetrated by Spanish explorers in the 1700s as "epic".[14][15]
On October 17, 2025, New York Republican State Committee executive board officials voted unanimously to suspend the Young Republicans' New York chapter. Party chair Ed Cox stated that "vile language of the sort made in the group chat has no place in our party or its subsidiary organizations".[16][17][18] A New York state Republican official, speaking anonymously to The New York Times, said disbanding would allow a fresh start by eliminating the group's charter to reconstitute it with new leadership.[19]
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