Megyn Kelly stumps for 'protector of women' Trump, predicts 'nuclear winter' without 'landslide'

Eight years after testy debate exchange with Trump, Kelly cites Democrats' opening of southern border "by choice" and threats to women from their transgender policies for her Trump support.

Published: November 5, 2024 12:58pm

Updated: November 5, 2024 1:18pm

Then-Fox News host Megyn Kelly got on the wrong side of Donald Trump at a 2015 debate by presenting the pre-nominee GOP candidate with crude remarks he had made about women over the years, prompting him to call her "nasty," make an unfinished statement about "blood coming out of her wherever" and boycott the subsequent debate.

What a difference two diametrically opposed administrations can make, with the independent journalist and SiriusXM host not only voting for the GOP nominee but stumping for him and warning that the country will experience "nuclear winter" unless Trump or Democratic nominee Kamala Harris wins in a "landslide." 

Kelly accused the Biden-Harris administration of opening the southern border "by choice" and illegal immigrants of murdering young Americans such as college student Laken Riley, the New York Post reports, echoing former President Clinton's own connection between Riley's death and immigrants who weren't "properly vetted."

She cited the serious ongoing injuries suffered by North Carolina volleyball player Payton McNabb when a male player on the opposing women's team spiked the ball in her face, and denounced Democrats for supporting women's bathroom and locker room access for males who identify as girls and women.

Trump correctly identified himself as a "protector of women" and he will also "look out for our ... boys and our forgotten men" who suffered the "consequences of [Harris's] disastrous economic policies" and are treated as "second-class citizens," Kelly said.

She told the Washington Examiner to expect "nuclear winter" after the election because "there is just zero chance" Trump and his supporters will accept a Harris victory "and go quietly into the night," or vice versa with Harris and her supporters. Kelly cited "two years of election interference" against Trump through "lawfare," used by Harris and her supporters, as the basis for Trump voters' refusal to accept a Harris win.

"We can’t be in a situation where only if Trump wins or loses in a landslide, do we accept the result," which are "impossible standards" for any candidate, Kelly said, while giving a more optimistic view that “I think we’ll be fine" after "an ugly few months."

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