Bill Maher calls Mamdani-backed socialist ‘patient zero’ of the ‘woke mind virus’

Bill Maher tore into Darializa Avila Chevalier — the socialist backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani — on Friday after Chevalier won the Democratic primary for New York's 13th Congressional District and drew scrutiny for her answers on prisons, deportation and past anti-American posts on social media.Maher opened "Real Time with Bill Maher" with a monologue about Avila Chevalier's refusal to directly say whether a convicted murderer should be incarcerated during a New York Editorial Board interview."The New York Times asked her, ‘If someone murders someone randomly, should they go to jail?’

Couldn’t get her to say yes for that," Maher said. "So, there is a woke mind virus, and I think we found patient zero. Her name is Darializa Avila Chevalier."

MAMDANI-BACKED SOCIALIST WITH HISTORY OF ANTI-AMERICAN RHETORIC WINS VICIOUS DEM PRIMARY RACEAvila Chevalier, 32, defeated Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y.

, chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, in Tuesday’s primary. Chevalier led with 49.4% to Espaillat’s 45.

9%.Maher also cited past statements about the United States and her reported plan to kneel during the congressional oath."She also says that the United States, the country she’s running to be a part of, is occupied native land, and says this country, America, is a f---ing disgrace," Maher said.

"During the oath of office, she’s going to take a knee."MAMDANI STANDS BY FELLOW SOCIALIST CANDIDATE DESPITE RESURFACED FAR-LEFT, ANTI-AMERICAN POSTSThe New York Editorial Board pressed Chevalier multiple times about how a murderer should be treated under her abolitionist views. She said incarceration remains what happens in the current system but did not directly endorse it."

The fact that the murder happened is tragic. The fact that there was a circumstance in which that could even come to pass is tragic, and all of that is a reflection of systems that allowed that circumstance to be possible," Avila Chevalier said.Chevalier also told the board she opposed deportation