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NYC socialist candidate walks out of live interview over past social media posts

Darializa Avila Chevalier abruptly ended a radio interview after hosts pressed her about controversial social media posts in her primary challenge against Rep. Adriano Espaillat.

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Deleted tweets on Darializa Avila Chevalier’s account had favorable references to communist leaders and MarxismDarializa Avila Chevalier, the Democratic congressional nominee endorsed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who ousted longtime Rep. Adriano Espaillat in Tuesday’s primary, maintained a since-deleted Twitter account with repeated sympathetic references to communism, Marxist ideology and Soviet figures, including Vladimir Lenin.

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