Less than a week after Democratic socialists swept several races in New York’s primaries, the memo appears to have gone out to the more moderate Democrats: the socialists aren’t just coming, they’re already here. Three candidates backed by New York City’s Democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani won their respective primaries on Tuesday — and two of them defeated incumbent Democrats to do it — but the one raising the most eyebrows is Darializa Avila Chevalier. Avila Chevalier, now the Democratic nominee for New York’s 13th Congressional District, is a card-carrying member of the Democratic Socialists of America who doesn’t believe murderers should go to prison — ever — and refers to American military veterans as “war criminals.” She wants all police abolished, would cut the defense budget to $0, and referred to former President Joe Biden as a “rapist.” Despite their desire to take back control of the U.S. House of Representatives in November, Avila Chevalier appears to be making some more moderate Democrats very uncomfortable — and they’re doing everything they can to put as much distance as possible between Mamdani’s chosen few and the Democratic Party writ large. Meghan Hays, who served as an adviser to both former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, told Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum that she was “frustrated” by the fact that no one in the party appeared to be standing up to the obvious threat of takeover.