Darializa Avila Chevalier has earned the endorsement of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, but her previous social media posts could leave voters concerned.
Reports indicate that Chevalier previously deleted a Twitter account that contained controversial political takes, including “expressing support for abolishing police, prisons and borders, as well as seizing private property and nationalizing major industries and calling into question Israel’s right to exist,” according to CNN’s KFile. and its review of posts saved by the Wayback Machine.
“Israel suddenly disappears, your third emoji is your reaction,” she retweeted in August 2020 with the reply “Trick question — Israel doesn’t exist!”
“A world without borders—just like a world without prisons or police—is possible, necessary, and the only moral way forward,” she posted in September 2021, later adding, “Yes, literally, abolish the border. All deportation is wrong.”
She even trashed Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, accusing the socialist senator of promoting “liberal Zionism” and expressing disgust with AOC voting “present” on military funding for Israel.
In 2020, she responded to another user who suggested finding a better, more palatable replacement for “defund the police.”
“F**k you. We’re gonna defund and abolish. You don’t get to water down our movements,” Chevalier wrote. A couple of days later, she doubled down on the meaning of the phrase, and it isn’t what most leftists were trying to sell at the time.
“No. It means ending policing full stop. Period. No more police at all ever,” he clarified, at a time when Democrats were trying to convince America that the phrase just meant diverting policing funds to community resources.
She even reportedly called former President Joe Biden a “rapist” and “war criminal” and trashed the entire United States as “a f**king disgrace.” In a bizarre instance, she targeted interracial relationships with white women as “fetishizing ugly colonizer women.”
Speaking to CNN about the posts, Chevalier accused her opponent, longtime Democratic Rep. Adriano Espaillat, of wanting to “live in the past.”
“My opponent wants to live in the past. He is re-litigating social media posts from half a decade ago and continuing to champion an outdated politics that fails to serve our people. I have grown considerably since in the years since these tweets, and I am focused on our community and our community’s future,” she said.
Surprisingly, or perhaps not, these messages were not a dealbreaker for Mamdani either, who expressed his continued support for Chevalier in a statement to CNN.
“In Congress, she’ll take on corporate greed, bad landlords, and D.C.’s broken political system. At a time when power is concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, Darializa will fight in Congress for New York City’s working families. She’s the champion we need for a city New Yorkers can actually afford,” he said.
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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