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WASHINGTON \u2014 Comedian Bill Maher says he\u2019s identified the loopy \u201cpatient zero\u201d among the extremist woke crowd: New York City congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier. <\/p>\n

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Maher torched Chevalier\u2019s radical positions such as abolishing prisons, the border and cops while speaking on his HBO \u201cReal Time\u201d show on Friday, adding that she\u2019s emblematic of the far-left flank of the Democratic Party that could put his typical Dem vote in play in the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s one candidate, she will be a congresswoman from New York\u2019s 13th District, who the New York Times asked her if someone murders someone randomly, should they go to jail? Couldn\u2019t get her to say yes to that,\u201d Maher said.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe says, \u2018No more police ever, at all, ever.\u2019 She says our veterans are war criminals. She said f\u2013k Kamala Harris and Joe Biden\u2019s a rapist,\u201d the host said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo there is a woke mind virus, and I think we found patient zero.\u201d<\/p>\n

Avila Chevalier prevailed in last week\u2019s Democratic primary against Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chairman Adriano Espaillat, whose seat covers upper Manhattan and parts of The Bronx. She was endorsed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.<\/p>\n

Ahead of her primary victory, Avila Chevalier scrubbed some of her highly offensive past social-media posts. In some of them, she praised communism \u2014 and boasted about wiping her dirty hands on the American flag because she couldn\u2019t find a napkin.<\/p>\n

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During his Friday show, Maher spoke with GOP Vice President JD Vance and vented about the rise of the far left within the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf this is where the Democratic Party is going \u2014 this obsession with Israel, with the Jew-hating, they don\u2019t believe in capitalism, no prisons. If this is where they\u2019re going, my vote is in play,\u201d Maher told the veep.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery year, I don\u2019t make my decision by who has an R or a D. I actually always came to the conclusion that the Democrat was probably better and voted for them,\u201d the comedian explained.<\/p>\n

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Maher has long considered himself a Democrat and more left-leaning on most issues. But he has grown increasingly frustrated with the woke and socialist left. <\/p>\n

But he also told Vance that President Trump\u2019s general denial that US elections are fair is a dealbreaker for him.<\/p>\n

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Avila Chevalier\u2019s campaign did not respond to a Post request for comment Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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