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Just when you think Democrats can’t move any further leftward, along come the party’s brand-new radical nominees for U.S. House seats in New York City. Amanda Macias reports for Fox News on a particularly prickly member of the group of aspiring congressional comrades: … socialist congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier abruptly walked out of a radio interview Tuesday after being pressed about controversial social media posts
that, at times, overshadowed her campaign against New York Democratic Rep. Adriano Espaillat. Just hours after dramatically ending the live interview with Spanish-language station La Mega, Avila Chevalier won her race to unseat Espaillat in New York’s 13th Congressional District, a heavily blue-leaning seat covering parts of Manhattan and the Bronx. Her victory is a major upset that ousted a five-term incumbent and chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Ms. Avila Chevalier’s history of commentary certainly ought to embarrass her. Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck reported recently for CNN on a series of online comments that have since been deleted: During the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, Avila Chevalier reposted a message calling for a sweeping government takeover of large parts of the economy. The repost advocated nationalizing utilities, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies; suspending rent and mortgage payments; dissolving private health insurance companies; and “seiz[ing] all properties from landlords.” Other deleted posts and reposts included references to communism and anti-capitalist politics. In one April 2020 post, Avila Chevalier wrote that while most of the political theory she had read was communist, “the pyromania associated with anarchism is very intriguing to me,” adding a laughing emoji.
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