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\n Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro told CNN\u2019s Dana Bash in an interview Thursday that he had \u201cprofound differences\u201d with one of the candidates endorsed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani in Tuesday\u2019s primary elections, underscoring Democratic Party fractures heading into the midterms.\n <\/p>

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\n Shapiro was asked about Darializa Avila Chevalier, the 32-year-old democratic socialist who defeated Rep. Adriano Espaillat, the chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, this week. Their primary, like many of Tuesday\u2019s contests in New York, focused on the US-Israel relationship.\n <\/p>\n

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\nCNN\u2019s KFile uncovered a deleted X account belonging to Avila Chevalier 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\u2019s right to exist.\n <\/p>\n

\n Avila Chevalier also attended a pro-Palestinian rally the day after Hamas\u2019 October 7, 2023, attack on Israel \u2013 where militants killed 1,200 people and took more than 250 hostages. The rally was widely condemned by politicians, including Brad Lander, another Mamdani-backed candidate who defeated Rep. Dan Goldman and said in a recent debate that the rally \u201cspoke about Hamas in ways that I just thought were vile.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cHer district voted for her. But I have profound differences from that particular candidate based on the citations that you read there,\u201d Shapiro told Bash. \u201cShe\u2019s not someone who seemingly I would agree with on many things or that we share similar values. She ran on the Democratic ticket, I guess, as a socialist. Voters in that district determined that she was the one they wanted representing her.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n CNN has reached out to Avila Chevalier\u2019s campaign for comment.\n <\/p>\n

\n Avila Chevalier helped lead campus protests at Columbia University over Israel and its treatment of Palestinians in Gaza, where more than 70,000 have died since the start of the war.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI\u2019ve 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,\u201d Avila Chevalier said in a debate against Espaillat.\n <\/p>

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\n Avila Chevalier said she would \u201cnever celebrate the death of any human being,\u201d arguing that she attended the October 8 rally to protest against an \u201coutsized reaction\u201d to Hamas\u2019 attack, which she feared would \u201ccause the death of thousands upon thousands of people\u201d in Gaza.\n <\/p>\n

\n Shapiro, who is running for reelection this fall and a potential 2028 presidential contender, argued that Democrats were ready to \u201chave a battle over what we believe in,\u201d something that he said hadn\u2019t occurred for the party since the 1992 election, when the party nominated then-Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, who went on to defeat President George H.W. Bush.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI get that there are some candidates that just say a lot of words and attract a lot of attention,\u201d Shapiro said. \u201cBut what we need to do as a party is drill down on how we can take those words, turn them into action to make people\u2019s lives better.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Shapiro has backed his own slate of Pennsylvania Democrats in seeking to flip up to four Republican-held US House seats this fall. One of the most prominent Jewish politicians in the country, Shapiro is a defender of Israel but an advocate for a two-state solution between the Israelis and Palestinians.\n <\/p>\n

\n He was asked Tuesday if he believed a Jewish politician could win a national Democratic primary.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI\u2019m not going to focus on what happens in 2028,\u201d Shapiro said. \u201cBut what I can tell you that as when I ran for governor in 2022 and now as I\u2019m running for reelection as Pennsylvania governor, I\u2019ve been very open about how faith and family guide me in this life of service. I\u2019m very open about who I am and what motivates me to serve. And what I\u2019ve received back from the people of Pennsylvania is goodness.\u201d\n <\/p>

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