Former KKK Grand Wizard praises Mamdani-endorsed socialist's stance on interracial marriage

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Former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke recently told a conservative media outlet that he agrees with a Democratic congressional nominee on an unlikely issue: interracial marriage. Darializa Avila Chevalier, who recently won the Democratic primary in New York’s 13th Congressional District, attracted controversy on the campaign trail for a deleted 2019 social media post where she attacked "Black men" and "Arab men" for "fetishizing ugly colonizer women." The sentiment won praise from Duke. "Well, I think that people have the right to preserve their particular heritage," the former KKK leader told the Washington Free Beacon in a phone interview. "And if she's concerned about preserving her heritage if it's Somali, or whatever she is, she's certainly got the right to do that." MAMDANI-BACKED SOCIALIST IN HOT SEAT AGAIN OVER DELETED POSTS PRAISING COMMUNISM, MARXISM: 'CRAZYPANTS' Chevalier identifies as Afro-Latina. She was also part of a cohort of socialist candidates endorsed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani who swept New York’s June Democratic primary elections. Duke served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1989 to 1992 after years of involvement in extremist politics. He was grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan from 1974 to 1980, a title used by the organization for its national leader. Even before Duke went public with his praise for Chevalier, some political observers were making connections between the two. "Chevalier is our David Duke," one unnamed Democrat told journalist Mark Halperin in June. "She is poisoning the possibility of a Democratic majority." JAMES CARVILLE SAYS SOCIALIST DEMOCRAT SHOULDN'T BE IN THE PARTY, CALLS HER VIEWS 'A BRIDGE TOO FAR' Former Republican congressman Peter Meijer said Monday on X that "the difference is that the modern Democratic Party would never do to Chevalier what the GOP did to David Duke." Duke infamously ran as a Republican in the 1991 Louisiana gubernatorial election after placing second…