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.