US Midterms 2026
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Darializa Avila Chevalier, a graduate student, community organizer and Democrat who defeated incumbent Adriano Espaillat in the primary, faces Republican Jomo Williams for New York's 13th congressional district in 2026.
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Untitled design (2)PRIMARY RESULTS: Darializa Avila Chevalier wins NY-13, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez re-elected to NY-14, Ritchie Torres re-elected to NY-15 [...] FILE: Rep.
Ocasio-CortezDarializa Avila Chevalier, a Democratic U.S. House candidate for New York’s 13th District, drew fury from Zohran Mamdani’s City Hall staff after her public attacks on NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch following a…
Darializa Avila Chevalier has publicly praised NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani amid increasing tensions over calls to fire NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch.
The article covers comments by Mamdani (Zohran Mamdani) and NY-13 congressional candidate Avila Chevalier (Darializa Avila Chevalier), clarifying a reported rift over Tisch (likely referring to NYC official Tisch).
Darializa Avila Chevalier, a far-left Democratic nominee for NY-13, publicly calls for NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch to resign following an ICE shooting in Marble Hill.
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Darializa Avila Chevalier was born in Florida to working-class Dominican immigrant parents; her father is a truck driver and her mother a caseworker.
She spent her childhood in Miami and many of her teenage years in Tallahassee, graduating from James S. Rickards High School in 2012, and she also lived in the Dominican Republic and Venezuela.
She moved to New York City to study at Columbia College, Columbia University, and graduated in 2016 with a Bachelor of Arts in Middle Eastern studies.
She then began a PhD program in sociology at the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, becoming a doctoral candidate by 2025, with research on how Black immigrants from Latin America are affected by the U.S. criminal justice system and deportation.
After graduating from Columbia, Avila Chevalier organized with Black Youth Project 100, which in 2018 campaigned for the removal of a Central Park statue of J. Marion Sims, and in 2019 she worked as an organizer for Families for Freedom.
She has taught at CUNY Lehman College and New York University and works as an investigator at the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, a public defender legal organization.
She joined the New York City Democratic Socialists of America in 2025 and was an organizing lead on Zohran Mamdani's campaign in the 2025 New York City mayoral election, serving as its field lead in the 13th district.
Darializa Avila Chevalier is the Democratic nominee in New York's 13th congressional district, which covers Upper Manhattan and the Northwest Bronx, including Harlem, Washington Heights, Inwood and Fordham.
Recruited to run by the group Justice Democrats, she announced her campaign in November 2025 against Democratic incumbent Adriano Espaillat, who was first elected in 2016 and re-elected with 83.5% of the vote in 2024.
The contest drew national attention as a fight between the Democratic Party's mainstream wing and its democratic socialist wing.
In the June 23, 2026, primary Avila Chevalier defeated Espaillat in an upset, taking 49.5% of the vote to his 45.7%, with Oscar Romero and Theo Chino-Tavarez further behind.
In the general election on November 3, 2026, she appears on both the Democratic and Working Families Party lines and faces Republican Jomo Williams, a businessman and nominee for New York City's 7th City Council district in 2025.
