2026-06-17T23:53:23.869Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
纽约一场激烈的国会初选辩论凸显了民主党内部的代际与意识形态分歧。
民主党社会主义者达里亚利扎·阿维拉·谢瓦利埃在与现任议员阿德里亚诺·埃斯派利亚特的交锋中，为过往针对副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯的贬损推文道歉。
将于下周二举行的初选将考验纽约市市长佐赫兰·曼达尼的影响力，他正支持全市多名进步派挑战者。
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周二晚间，纽约第13国会选区的一名国会候选人就过往针对卡玛拉·哈里斯的贬损言论道歉，民主党保守派与新兴进步派挑战者之间的分歧暴露无遗。
“针对副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯，我诚挚道歉，”32岁的民主党社会主义者、纽约市市长佐赫兰·曼达尼背书的候选人达里亚利扎·阿维拉·谢瓦利埃在对手、现任议员阿德里亚诺·埃斯派利亚特的追问下，于激烈辩论中说道，“你不该从我这里听到那样的言论。我曾热切期待看到一位女性黑人总统。作为一名黑人女性，我深知这对包括我在内的无数人意味着什么。”
CNN的K文件栏目此前曾报道过阿维拉·谢瓦利埃现已删除的批评民主党领导人的推文，其中包括2021年9月时任副总统哈里斯告诫危地马拉移民不要非法入境美国后，她发布了“去他妈的卡玛拉·哈里斯”。
这位进步派候选人此前告诉CNN，这些现已删除的推文不能代表如今的她，而在辩论台上，她再次为这些言论表示遗憾。但71岁的埃斯派利亚特对她的辩解不予理会：“这不仅仅是你年轻时、青少年时期说过的几句无心之语。这事就发生在几年前。我认为，一个在社交媒体上一贯言行不负责任的人，不适合进入国会。言语确实重要。”
阿维拉·谢瓦利埃反驳称，她曾在2024年投票给哈里斯，并转而抨击当代民主党：“没错，我曾批评卡玛拉·哈里斯的执政记录。但我还是投了她的票，因为和众多黑人和拉丁裔民众一样，我曾被迫拯救民主党于自身的僵化之中，”她说，“这是因为我们曾有过像我的对手这样的议员，他们拒绝倾听选民的声音，拒绝真正响应民主党基础选民的意愿。现在是时候选出真正能倾听民主党基础选民诉求的议员了。”
这场激烈交锋凸显了这个民主党大本营选战中的意识形态与代际分歧——该选区涵盖曼哈顿和布朗克斯部分地区，也是今年全美各地民主党初选之际，民主党正努力应对的分歧缩影。
阿维拉·谢瓦利埃是一名公设辩护人办公室的调查员兼博士生，在曼达尼背书她挑战自2017年起代表该选区的埃斯派利亚特后，成为全美最受关注的左翼挑战者之一。
不过，关于她删除的社交媒体帖子的报道引发了审查——包括CNN K文件栏目对其已删除的推特账号的报道，该账号包含数千条帖子和转发，内容涉及支持废除警察、监狱和边境墙，没收私有财产并将主要行业国有化，以及质疑以色列的生存权。
阿维拉·谢瓦利埃强调，这些帖子不再反映她的政治立场，但在周二的辩论中，她多次因埃斯派利亚特抓住这些问题而陷入守势。
这位议员援引民主党内部关于以色列问题的另一争议点称：“我和我的对手之间的区别在于，我支持两国方案，而她不承认以色列的存在权。”
他还批评阿维拉·谢瓦利埃在2023年10月7日哈马斯袭击以色列的次日参加了一场亲巴勒斯坦集会——当时哈马斯武装分子杀害了1200人，劫持了250多名人质。政治领袖们在袭击发生后普遍谴责了这场集会——另一位获得曼达尼背书、在纽约第10选区参选的候选人布拉德·兰德本月早些时候表示，他已退出美国民主党社会主义者党籍，原因是该党支持这场集会。
“就连曼达尼市长和审计长兰德都没有参加这场集会，”埃斯派利亚特说，“她却在袭击发生后立刻前往集会，为以色列无辜民众的死亡欢呼。”
阿维拉·谢瓦利尔表示，她“绝不会庆祝任何人类的死亡”，并辩称她参加集会是为了抗议对哈马斯袭击的“过度反应”，她担心这种反应会“导致加沙地区成千上万的人死亡”。
她持续批评以色列及其对待加沙巴勒斯坦人的方式，自战争爆发以来，加沙已有7万多人死亡，她将此与美国国内黑人和拉丁裔社区的遭遇相提并论。
“我看到的相似之处不仅在于行事方式，还在于实施暴力的那些体制机构。2014年用于镇压加沙巴勒斯坦人的催泪瓦斯，与2014年用于镇压弗格森市黑人抗议者的催泪瓦斯是同一种，”阿维拉·谢瓦利埃说道。
辩论结束后，阿维拉·谢瓦利埃的媒体总监纳塔莉亚·拉蒂夫强调，这位进步派候选人已为这些帖子承担责任并向前看。
“她明确表示，‘我对我的推文深感懊悔’，承担了责任，并转向真正重要的议题：该选区理应选出一位会为经济适用房而战、为废除移民海关执法局而战、确保我们的税收资金回流社区而非用于无休止战争的议员，”拉蒂夫在一份声明中说道。
第13选区的选战已被广泛视为民主党建制派与崛起的民主社会主义派之间的代理战——曼达尼正在这场运动中展现其影响力。
本月在一场新闻发布会上，这位市长解释说，他在背书阿维拉·谢瓦利埃时并未看到她的帖子。“我从她那里听到的，以及我知道该选区许多其他人从她那里听到的，是她的观点已经演变，”他说道，并继续支持这位候选人。
这场争议让人联想到曼达尼去年秋天的反建制市长竞选，当时他直言不讳地批评以色列在加沙的行为，并就该问题与前州长安德鲁·科莫发生冲突。
如今身为市长，他正在多场纽约州选举中投入政治资本，支持进步派初选挑战者。
曼达尼在纽约第10选区对决现任议员丹·戈德曼的竞选中，背书了其在市长选举中的友好对手兰德，称兰德是“值得信赖的盟友与伙伴”。他还在第7选区初选中，背书州众议员克莱尔·巴尔德斯挑战即将离任的议员妮迪亚·贝拉克斯选定的继任者、布鲁克斯区长安东尼奥·雷亚诺索。
但曼达尼也曾试图利用其影响力支持民主党建制派。他劝阻纽约市议员、长期政治盟友奇·奥西挑战众议院少数党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯的初选，并据报道向纽约州美国民主党社会主义者党施加影响，敦促他们不要背书奥西。奥西几周后退出了竞选。
下周二将是对他背书影响力的首次重大考验，纽约选民将前往投票站，决定阿维拉·谢瓦利埃以及该市日益壮大的进步派运动的其他成员能否晋级大选。
A Mamdani-backed progressive’s challenge to a veteran Democrat highlights party fractures
2026-06-17T23:53:23.869Z / CNN
A heated congressional primary debate in New York highlighted generational and ideological divides within the Democratic Party.
Democratic socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier apologized for past disparaging tweets about Vice President Kamala Harris during an exchange with incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat.
The primary next Tuesday tests NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s influence as he backs several progressive challengers across the city.
AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.
The divides between the Democratic old guard and a new class of progressive challenger were on sharp display on Tuesday night as a congressional candidate in New York’s 13th District apologized for past disparaging remarks about Kamala Harris.
“To Vice President Kamala Harris, I sincerely apologize,” Darializa Avila Chevalier, the 32-year-old democratic socialist endorsed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, said during a heated debate when pushed by her opponent, incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat. “You did not deserve that language from me. And I would’ve loved to have seen a Black woman president. As a Black woman, I know how much that would’ve meant to so many, including myself.”
CNN’s KFile previously reported on Avila Chevalier’s now-deleted tweets critical of Democratic leaders, including posting “F**k Kamala Harris” after the then-vice president told Guatemalan migrants in September 2021 not to come to the United States illegally.
The progressive candidate previously told CNN that the now-deleted tweets don’t represent who she is today and on the debate stage, she reiterated her regret for the remarks. But Espaillat, 71, dismissed her defense: “This is not just some common statement that was made when you were a young person, a teenager, an adolescent. This was just a couple of years ago. And I think it’s irresponsible for someone that has a chronically irresponsible social media to go to Congress. Words really matter.”
Avila Chevalier fired back that she had voted for Harris in 2024 and pivoted to an indictment of the modern Democratic Party. “Yes, I was critical of Kamala Harris’ record. And I voted for her because like so many Black and brown people, I am someone who has been forced to save the Democratic Party from itself,” she said. “And that is because we have had representatives like my opponent who has refused to listen to his constituents, who has refused to actually listen to the will of their Democratic base. And it’s time that we have representatives who actually listen to their Democratic base.”
The fiery exchange exemplifies the ideological and generational splits that have defined the race in the Democratic stronghold, which covers parts of Manhattan and the Bronx, and which the party is grappling with in primaries across the country this year.
Avila Chevalier, an investigator at a public defender’s office and doctoral student, emerged as one of the most prominent left-wing challengers in the country after Mamdani endorsed her bid to unseat Espaillat, who has represented the 13th District since 2017.
Reports of her deleted social media posts, however, have drawn scrutiny – including CNN KFile’s coverage of a deleted Twitter account that included thousands of posts and reposts expressing support for abolishing police, prisons and borders, as well as seizing private property and nationalizing major industries and calling into question Israel’s right to exist.
Avila Chevalier has stressed that the posts no longer reflect her politics – but she found herself on the defensive at several points during Tuesday’s debate as Espaillat seized upon them.
Invoking another flashpoint within the Democratic Party on the issue of Israel, the congressman argued, “The difference between me and my opponent is that I believe in a two-state solution and she doesn’t believe in the existence of Israel.”
And he criticized Avila Chevalier for attending a pro-Palestinian rally the day after Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attack on Israel – where militants killed 1,200 people and took more than 250 hostages. Political leaders widely condemned the rally in the aftermath of the attack – and Brad Lander, another Mamdani-endorsed candidate running in New York’s 10th District, said earlier this month that he canceled his membership with the Democratic Socialists of America for promoting it.
“Even Mayor Mandani and Comptroller Lander did not attend this rally,” Espaillat said. “She went to celebrate the death of innocent people in Israel right after the attack.”
Avila Chevalier said she would “never celebrate the death of any human being,” arguing that she attended the rally to protest against an “outsized reaction” to Hamas’ attack, which she feared would “cause the death of thousands upon thousands of people” in Gaza.
She maintained a critical line toward Israel and its treatment of Palestinians in Gaza, where more than 70,000 have died since the start of the war, drawing comparisons to the experiences of Black and Latino communities in the US.
“I’ve seen a lot of similarities not just in the way things are done, but also in the very institutions that are enacting that violence. The tear gas that was being dropped on Palestinians in Gaza in 2014 was the same tear gas that was being dropped on Black protesters in Ferguson in 2014,” Avila Chevalier said.
Following the debate, Avila Chevalier media director Natalia Latif stressed that the progressive candidate has taken accountability for the posts and moved forward.
“She said plainly, ‘I deeply regret my tweets,’ took ownership, and pivoted to what actually matters: that this district deserves a representative who will fight for affordable housing, fight to abolish ICE, and fight to make sure our tax dollars come back to our communities instead of being spent on forever wars,” Latif said in a statement.
The race in the 13th District has become widely seen as a proxy battle between the Democratic establishment and the rising democratic socialist contingency – with Mamdani flexing his influence in the movement.
At a press conference this month, the mayor explained that he had not seen Avila Chevalier’s posts when he endorsed her. “What I’ve heard from her, and what I know a lot of others in the district have heard from her, is that her views have evolved,” he said, continuing to stand by the candidate.
The controversy has echoes of Mamdani’s own anti-establishment mayoral campaign last fall, shaped by his outspoken criticism of Israel’s conduct in Gaza and clashes with former Gov. Andrew Cuomo on the issue.
And now as mayor, he’s putting his political capital on the line in several New York races where he’s supporting progressive primary challengers.
Mamdani endorsed Lander, his amicable opponent during the mayoral race, in his bid against 10th District incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman, calling Lander “a trusted ally and partner.” And he endorsed state Assemblywoman Claire Valdez’s bid against outgoing Rep. Nydia Velázquez’s chosen successor, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, in the 7th District primary.
But Mamdani has also sought to wield his influence in favor of the Democratic establishment. He discouraged Chi Ossé, a New York City Council member and longtime political ally, from mounting a primary challenge against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and flexed his influence with the state chapter of the Democratic Socialists if America, reportedly urging them against endorsing Ossé. Ossé dropped his bid a few weeks later.
Next Tuesday will mark the first major test of his endorsement as New Yorkers head to the polls to decide whether Avila Chevalier and other members of the city’s growing progressive movement will advance to the general election.
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