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Socialist candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier is celebrating her Democratic primary victory over a New York congressional incumbent with a media clean-up tour of past comments that Democrats have denounced.<\/p>\n

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Ms. Avila Chevalier said in a series of post-election interviews that she regrets her past social media posts calling former President Joseph R. Biden a \u201crapist\u201d and cursing former Vice President Kamala Harris. As the likely next representative of New York\u2019s 13th District, she said she wants to build relationships and coalitions for her far-left policy ideas.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do regret my tweets,\u201d she said on MS Now. \u201cThat\u2019s something that I think has brought a lot of division, and that\u2019s something I regret, because as an organizer, my goal is always to unify our community and deliver for our community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms. Avila Chevalier said that while people are holding her accountable for comments made long before she decided to run for political office, it is rare that elected officials are held accountable for the decisions they make in positions of power.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was part of why I decided to run, because I felt that abandonment from establishment politics that looks at my community as though it is merely statistics and not people who are worth fighting for, and not the policies that will actually better their lives,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Ms. Avila Chevalier defeated five-term Rep. Adriano Espaillat, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus chairman, in an upper Manhattan district that includes parts of the Bronx.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old worked on socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s campaign last year and was one of three congressional challengers he endorsed in Tuesday\u2019s primaries who won over establishment-backed candidates.<\/p>\n

Democratic strategist James Carville, the architect of Bill Clinton\u2019s 1992 presidential victory, said Ms. Avila Chevalier isn\u2019t really a Democrat and should not be brought into the party fold in Washington.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey should not seat her in the caucus,\u201d he told NewsNation. \u201cHer views are totally against anything that Democrats have. We believe in pluralism; she doesn\u2019t believe in interracial dating.\u201d<\/p>\n

That was a reference to a post from her deactivated Twitter account suggesting that White people should not be in interracial relationships.<\/p>\n

However, Ms. Avila Chevalier told NBC News that the Democratic establishment has \u201cpushed forward a politics of cynicism for far too long.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said her victory shows voters \u201care more interested in a politics of hope\u201d that provides a vision of what the party is fighting for instead of just the things they are against. That is why she said she is not responding to President Trump and other Republicans calling her a communist.<\/p>\n

She summarized her political vision in her first post-primary interview with the left-wing news program \u201cDemocracy Now!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are fighting for housing for all, to make sure that we abolish ICE and to have our tax dollars come back home to invest in our babies here and not in bombs abroad,\u201d Ms. Avila Chevalier said.<\/p>\n

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While that description is largely in line with the broader Democratic Party\u2019s views, Ms. Avila Chevalier has taken positions that are further left than most, such as opposing the deportation of all illegal immigrants, including criminals. She previously called for abolishing the police and prisons, and she still opposes all deportations of illegal immigrants, including criminals.<\/p>\n

New York City Councilwoman Vickie Paladino, a Republican, said Ms. Avila Chevalier\u2019s anti-American activism makes her ineligible to be sworn into her House seat.<\/p>\n

At Columbia University, Ms. Avila Chevalier was a member of Students for Justice in Palestine and helped found an apartheid divest movement group that sought to pressure the university to break ties with Israel. The group on social media called for \u201cDeath to America\u201d in Farsi.<\/p>\n

Ms. Avila Chevalier has questioned Israel\u2019s right to exist. She attended a pro-Palestinian rally the day after Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist rampage in Israel that killed more than 1,200 people, mostly civilians, including more than 300 young men and women at the Nova music festival.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reason I was there \u2014 was at that rally, is because I have been advocating for Palestinian human rights and dignity for most of my adult life,\u201d she told MS Now. \u201cAnd knowing that historically, what we have seen is that whenever there is an incident that happens in the region, there is an outsized reaction, one that costs thousands more people their lives. And that was what I was there to stand against.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms. Avila Chevalier studied abroad in the West Bank in 2014. Within a day of arriving back in the U.S., Israel began bombing Gaza in a 50-day war in which more than 1,400 Palestinian civilians were killed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember being home and scrolling through the faces and names of the people who had been killed and feeling completely powerless to do anything about it,\u201d she said of experiences that informed her political beliefs.<\/p>\n

Ms. Avila Chevalier can\u2019t be blocked from taking a seat in Congress, but Democrats could refuse to give her any committee assignments or other privileges of membership in their party caucus. That appears unlikely.<\/p>\n

\u201cVoters have that ability to make those decisions in Democratic primaries. And we\u2019ll work with whoever they send,\u201d said House Democratic Conference Chairman Pete Aguilar of California.<\/p>\n

Ms. Avila Chevalier declined to say whether she would support House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York for speaker if control of the chamber flips in November.<\/p>\n

She said she will use her experience as an organizer to build coalitions in Congress for passing left-wing policies, such as Medicare and college for all.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about knowing when you\u2019re outnumbered and out-resourced and still having an outsized impact and using strategy and relationship building and trust building to actually deliver for folks,\u201d Ms. Avila Chevalier said.<\/p>\n

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