Democrat’s deleted tweets had favorable references to communism
- Posted on June 30, 2026
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Democrat’s deleted tweets had favorable references to communism
Darializa 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. CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski reports.