Daria Liza Avila Chevalier

of degrading and dehumanizing rhetoric under all of my social media.

We are facing a lot of verbal harassment every time we go out.

And our volunteers, who are just here to be part of their democracy, are also having to think about how to be de-escalatory.

And I think, you know, it's just such a deep affront to our democracy, right?

To see that kind of MAGA-style politics, to discourage people from being part of their own election, right?

And make them fearful, you know, that is the antithesis of what a democracy is supposed to be.

You know, my values have always been around human dignity, around justice, around accountability.

And I think what's changed is that I've just grown.

I've matured.

My nuance in a number of these things has deepened.

But my values are at their core still there.

And I think the frustration that I felt when I said a lot of those things is something that is reflective of a failure of our larger systems.

where so many people just feel deeply unheard and powerless to engage with our political system.

And, you know, one of the things that I've been thinking a lot through this campaign is how, you know, his tactic has been to... Well, one, decontextualize a lot of what I said, but also...

smear my character and myself as a person, right?

Rather than focusing on his record and what he has done to this community and failed to do for this community.

And it's more of that politics of distraction because he knows that he cannot answer to the very basic question that I have posed and I've had the audacity to ask for this campaign, which is what has improved for the lives of New Yorkers here in New York 13 in the nine years that he has been in Congress because he can't answer to that.

I did.

You know, I despite my criticisms, I I'm one of those folks who has had to save the Democratic Party from itself.

Right.