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.
Around $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.
Avila-Chevalier 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 campaign representative did not respond to a request for comment.
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