Socialists sweep NYC races as Republicans warn of Dem’s leftward shift
Fox News’ Bryan Llenas reports on Democratic socialists winning congressional primaries in New York advocating for radical policies. Republicans, led by Speaker Mike Johnson, warn against this leftward shift, labeling the candidates ‘Marxist.’ Voters approved platforms including Medicare-for-all and abolishing ICE, prompting concerns about the Democratic Party’s future.
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The socialist backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani who won Tuesday night’s primary election in New York’s 13th Congressional District founded a group in college that called for the total destruction of the West.
Darializa Avila Chevalier, 32, a Democratic nominee for U.S. Congress who made career out of “community organizing,” wrote in her biography for an opinion piece in independent news outlet The Electronic Intifada that she “helped launch the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign Columbia University Apartheid Divest.”
“We are Westerners fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization,” the group said in a now-deleted 2024 Instagram post.
In May 2024, eight years after she graduated from Columbia, Chevalier was back on campus advocating alongside the group she founded, known as CUAD, wearing a keffiyeh and a t-shirt emblazoned with the group’s name.
Darializa Avila Chevalier, Democratic candidate for Congress in New York’s 13th Congressional District, speaks with a voter in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan on June 14, 2026, in New York, N.Y. (Shuran Huang/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Avila Chevalier was interviewed by the Associated Press at the school’s infamous encampment against Israel that year, which was later broken up by police.
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Only months after that, CUAD, caused a firestorm when it reportedly posted its goal of eradicating Western Civilization.
“We stand in full solidarity with every movement for liberation in the Global South,” the post continued. “Our Intifada is an internationalist one — we are fighting for nothing less than the liberation of all people.”
“We reject every genocidal, eugenicist regime that seeks to undermine the personhood of the colonized,” the group added.
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Congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier speaks during a Get Out the Vote rally at King’s Theater in New York City on June 18, 2026. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Mayor Zohran Mamdani campaigned alongside her and other candidates ahead of the Democratic primary and early voting. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Columbia University has roundly denounced CUAD, and says it is not affiliated in any way with the school.
Avila Chevalier was born in Florida to Dominican immigrants. She converted to Islam in recent years.
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The surfacing of her affiliation with the group has sparked intense online backlash, including from elected Democrats.
“Anti-Israel. Anti-America. Anti-Western Civilization. Why am I the only Democrat in the U.S. Senate that refuses to excuse this or defend any of those self-identified communists?” Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., said on X Wednesday evening.
Darializa Avila Chevalier, Democratic candidate for Congress in New York’s 13th Congressional District, speaks with voter Maria Rodriguez in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan on June 14, 2026. (Shuran Huang/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Avila Chevalier also infamously expressed anti-white women and anti-American sentiments in deleted social media posts, one time calling her home country “a f—ing disgrace.”
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“I forgot to get napkins so I just wiped my hand on the American flag behind me,” she said in another deleted post.
“This lady founded an organization with a stated goal of Eradicating Western civilization, & a bunch of rich white progressives who know she means them, said ‘please do,'” X personality Sean Fitzgerald said.
Congressional candidates Claire Valdez, left, Brad Lander, second from left, and Darializa Avila Chevalier, right, raise their hands with Mayor Zohran Mamdani during a Get Out the Vote rally in New York City on June 18, 2026. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
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“The real ‘country over party’ test isn’t going to be about Trump,” said RealClearInvestigations writer Mark Hemingway. “It’s going to be over communist Congress members who literally say they want to eradicate Western civilization.”
In a deeply blue district, Avila Chevalier is likely to waltz her way into Congress in November.
Fox News Digital reached out to Avila Chevalier’s campaign.
