Daria Liza Avila Chevalier

It is pushing us towards war that nobody in this country wants.

And to have Democrats accept money from a right wing lobby is deeply concerning because how are we supposed to fight back against the fascism of Trump?

when we have a right wing lobby that is also funding Democrats and incumbents.

And I think, you know, if we are serious about taking our democracy back, if we're serious about creating a Democratic Party that the working class can actually identify with again, then we have to call out the way that right wing lobbies are putting money into this election.

And these and again, these are values that most Jewish New Yorkers here actually vehemently disagree with.

Yeah, absolutely.

You know, we know that he has surrogates engaging in these smear campaigns in the Dominican Republic, spreading disinformation and just sowing deep division in this community.

And, you know, to, you know, this question of like this gentrification question where he is complaining about the changing demographics in this district without acknowledging that he has been in power, in political power,

for over nine years in Congress, but almost 30 years first in the state legislature and then in the federal government.

And so I think it's very rich actually to hear someone who has held political power for this long then complain about the impact of his policies on the changing demographics in this district and the electorate.

And I think what we're seeing right now is that citywide people are struggling to afford to be able to stay here.

And that is part of why I think the demographics are changing.

And rather than addressing his record and his role in that change, he is now engaging in a smear campaign that's attacking not any policy that I have proposed, not my platform, but me as an individual, as a human being, where now we have my team and I were dealing with an onslaught.

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.