They just aren’t the people who live here.
Over 60% of Mamdani-backed congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier’s roughly $350,000 fundraising haul comes from out-of-state donors despite billing herself as “100% powered by the people” on her campaign website.
Chevalier, the controversial candidate challenging Manhattan and Bronx congressman Adriano Espaillat, raised over $80,000 from California alone and accepted $7,500 from Saikat Chakrabarti, failed congressional candidate and a former chief of staff of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Darializa Avila Chevalier raised the majority of her latest fundraising haul from out-of-state donors X / DarializaforNYAround $118,000 or roughly a third of the recent haul, which discloses donations from April 1 to June 3, arrived after socialist darling Mamdani officially backed her on May 28.
Despite pledging to not accept corporate real estate money, the House hopeful also accepted over $8,000 in real estate industry related cash, including $3,500 donations from Long Island based builder Syed M. Razvi and broker Faraz Khan.
Just over half of the Florida native and DSA member’s recent haul also comes from high dollar donations topping $2,500.
Chevalier’s recent April 1 to June 3 $350,000 haul is a third of her overall fundraising so far — having raised roughly $930,000 since October.
Rep. Espaillat raised over $740,000 in the same period bringing this total fundraising figures to just over $2 million thus far in the cycle.
Rep. Adriano Espaillat has raised over $2 million thus far for his re-election against DSA challenger Daraliza Avila Chevalier REUTERSChevalier has come under fire in recent weeks for her unhinged social media posts where she called the “US a “f—king disgrace” and labeled Joe Biden a “rapist.”
The former president furiously denied allegations from a former senate staffer who said he attacked her in 1993 and has not been charged with any wrongdoing.
Mamdani said he had not seen the avalanche of the candidate’s incendiary posts before endorsing her in the race.
A spokesperson for the candidate sent a statement from Chevalier to The Post after an initial online version of this story ran, saying she was in the process of returning the money.
“As soon as I found out that money had come into this campaign, I asked my finance director to return these donations,” Chevalier said in the statement. “These donations are either in the process of being returned or have already been returned.”
“I challenge my opponent to return the more than $250k he has taken from the real estate lobby raising our rents, or the more than $600k from AIPAC, or the more than $115k from ICE contractors,” she added. “But since he has sold our community out repeatedly, I’m not holding my breath.”
