Daria Liza Avila Chevalier

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.

One of the many black and brown people, black and brown women in particular, who have deep criticisms of these social systems and yet have to come out and vote to save the Democratic Party from from this fascism that we're facing with Trump.

Right.

And.

If I remember correctly, in that context, I was critical of the language that Vice President Harris was using to tell immigrants to not come into this country.

And as someone who's been organizing for immigration justice for most of my adult life, you know, I just find it fascinating.

troubling when folks in power tell some of the most disempowered people in our society, in the planet, that they should not be working towards or not be fighting to lead dignified lives for them and their children.

And I do regret the tweet and I regret the language.