New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is standing by his endorsement of Darializa Avila Chevalier, a democratic socialist running for Congress, even after deleted social media posts attributed to her, calling America "a f-----g disgrace" and demanding the abolition of borders, police, and prisons, resurfaced ahead of the June 23 primary.
Mamdani, asked about the posts at a Wednesday news conference, said he hadn't seen them. He offered no condemnation. Instead, he praised the 32-year-old community organizer as "an incredible champion" for New York's 13th congressional district.
The episode lays bare a pattern familiar to anyone watching the far left's march through New York politics: say whatever you want about America, its laws, and its institutions, and the party machinery will look the other way, or, better yet, change the subject to "evolution."
Avila Chevalier's now-deleted posts, spanning 2018 to 2022, amount to a running catalogue of contempt for the country she now wants to represent in Congress. Fox News Digital reported that the posts attacked the United States, the Democratic Party, private property, police, and the very concept of national borders.
In one post, she wrote: "This country is a f-----g disgrace." In another, she said: "I forgot to get napkins so I just wiped my hand on the American flag behind me."
She reportedly called former President Joe Biden a "rapist" and "war criminal." She wrote "F--k Kamala Harris." She chastised Sen. Bernie Sanders, hardly a right-winger, for his "liberal Zionism." A 2021 repost declared that abolishing borders, prisons, and police is "possible, necessary, and the only moral way forward."
Other posts stated flatly that "all deportation is wrong" and "Yes, literally abolish the border."
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Avila Chevalier demanded $3,000 per month in universal basic income, the nationalization of utilities, pharmaceutical companies, and hospitals, the suspension of mortgages and rent, the seizure of private property from landlords, the dissolution of insurance companies, and the expansion of Medicare to every citizen. That is not a policy platform. It is a wish list for dismantling the private economy.
When reporters pressed Mamdani on the posts, he did not dispute their content. He simply waved them away. His full response deserves reading, because it shows how the far left handles inconvenient records, not with accountability, but with vague appeals to personal growth.
"When it comes to Darializa's campaign, I had not seen those tweets and what I've heard from her and what I know a lot of others in the district that have heard from her is that her views have evolved and that the campaign she is running on is reflective of what she's going to be fighting for."
He then pivoted to her activist record, framing her work against ICE enforcement as a credential rather than a concern.
"And frankly, when I see a candidate who has a record like she does of freeing New Yorkers who are unjustly detained by ICE, of standing up for the working person who has often been left out of our politics, especially in a district that has so many of the same themes that we're speaking of today, a fear of displacement, a fear of being pushed out of a place you helped to build, I think that she would be an incredible champion for that district and for the city as a whole."
Note the framing: ICE detentions are "unjust" as a matter of course. Borders are a problem, not a protection. Displacement is the enemy, unless it's the displacement of law and order.
Mamdani went further, calling Avila Chevalier someone who "grew up with a commitment to the very people that politics have left behind," adding: "I can't wait for her to be introduced to so many across the city and across this country as we fight for that affordability agenda, from New York City to D.C."
Avila Chevalier is running to unseat five-term incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat in the 13th congressional district, which covers Upper Manhattan and parts of the west Bronx. Mamdani first endorsed her in late May. The primary is set for June 23.
Fox News Digital reported that Avila Chevalier also led anti-Israel protests at Columbia University, a campus that became a flashpoint for antisemitic activism in 2024. The outlet reached out to the offices of Mamdani, Avila Chevalier, and Espaillat for comment. None responded.
That silence is worth noting. Three public officials or candidates, confronted with a factual record of deleted posts calling for the abolition of borders, the seizure of private property, and profane attacks on the American flag, and not one of them had anything to say.
Mamdani's defense rests entirely on the claim that Avila Chevalier's views have "evolved." But he offered no specifics about what changed, when it changed, or what she now believes about the positions she staked out between 2018 and 2022. He said he hadn't even seen the posts. The defense amounts to: trust her, don't read her record.
This is a familiar playbook. Delete the posts. Claim growth. Redirect to sympathetic talking points about displacement and affordability. And hope no one asks the obvious follow-up: If her views truly evolved, why delete the posts instead of publicly repudiating them?
The posts weren't ambiguous. "Yes, literally abolish the border" doesn't leave much room for nuance. Calling the country "a f-----g disgrace" while wiping your hands on the flag isn't youthful indiscretion, it's a worldview. And demanding the government seize landlords' property and dissolve insurance companies isn't a pandemic hot take. It's socialism with the mask off.
Mamdani's willingness to stand by Avila Chevalier fits a broader dynamic in New York City politics. The mayor himself has drawn sharp criticism from federal officials over his posture toward immigration enforcement. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, in a response to Mamdani's criticism of ICE raids, called Mamdani a "socialist communist" with "zero respect" and said DHS would "restore law" in American cities and pursue criminals "no matter where they're at," including New York.
That confrontation provides the backdrop for Mamdani's endorsement. He is not simply supporting a candidate. He is aligning himself with someone whose stated positions, abolish borders, abolish police, abolish prisons, nationalize industry, seize property, represent the most radical edge of the American left. And he is doing so while running a city that depends on federal cooperation for public safety.
The voters of the 13th district will decide whether Avila Chevalier's "evolution" is real or convenient. But the residents of New York City are already living with the consequences of leaders who treat law enforcement as the enemy, borders as optional, and property rights as negotiable.
The most telling detail in this episode may be the simplest one: Fox News Digital asked all three parties for comment, and none responded. Mamdani addressed the posts only when cornered at a press conference, and even then, he hadn't bothered to read them.
Avila Chevalier, for her part, deleted the posts rather than defending or disavowing them. That is the act of someone who knows the record is a liability but isn't willing to own it.
And Espaillat, the incumbent, said nothing, leaving voters to wonder whether the five-term congressman sees any problem with a challenger who called for abolishing the border and seizing private property, or whether he's simply hoping the story goes away on its own.
When your candidate's idea of patriotism is wiping her hands on the flag, and your mayor's idea of accountability is saying he never read the posts, voters don't need a lecture about what's gone wrong with New York politics. They're living it.
