Megyn Kelly appeared at Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Pittsburgh, Pa., on Monday, revealing to the crowd that she’s backing the Republican ex-president because of the Democrats’ handling of illegal immigration and transgender policies.
Kelly listed instances of illegal migrants accused of killing young Americans like Georgia college student Laken Riley, 22, and 12-year-old Texan Jocelyn Nungaray as she blamed Vice President Kamala Harris for opening up the southern border “by choice.”
The popular podcaster, who hosts “The Megyn Kelly Show,” also mentioned a North Carolina high school volleyball player who suffered serious injuries when a transgender girl spiked a ball at her during a match in September 2022. She also assailed Democrats that support trans women and girls going into girls’ locker rooms and bathrooms during the fiery speech.
“He got mocked by the left for saying he will be a protector of women. He will be a protector of women and it’s why I’m voting for him,” Kelly said with Trump, 78, by her side.
“He will close the border, he will keep the boys out of girls’ sports and where they don’t belong and you know what else, one more thing, he will look out for our boys, too. Our forgotten boys and our forgotten men.”
She said men with blue-collar jobs “with the beards and the tats” don’t want to be judged by celebs supporting Harris like Oprah and Beyoncé “who will never have to face the consequences of her disastrous economic policies.”
“President Trump gets it,” Kelly said. “He will not look at our boys like they’re second class citizens.”
“And ladies out there who want a bit of girl power this election let me tell you something, how can you win when the sons and the husbands and the brothers that you love are losing,” she added.
She also took a shot at Democrats’ “version of masculinity” and the marriage between Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff, who has faced allegations this campaign season he once struck an ex-girlfriend in 2012 as the pair were leaving an event at the Cannes Film Festival in France.
“I don’t remember a single media person, not one, who sat with him, asked him about the abuse allegations against him,” Kelly said.
A spokesperson for Emhoff told Semafor last month the report, which appeared in the Daily Mail, was “untrue.”
“I’m not into their version of toxic masculinity or new masculinity,” Kelly said of liberals. “I prefer the old version and I prefer a president who understands how to be strong and how to fight.”
Kelly, who said she voted for Trump last week, has had a complicated relationship with the bombastic businessman dating back to his first run for the White House.
Trump blasted Kelly in 2015 after the former Fox News host asked him tough questions during a GOP debate.
During her speech on Monday, she also took a swipe at Mavericks owner and billionaire Mark Cuban who is facing heat from the GOP for claiming Trump doesn’t surround himself with “strong, intelligent women.”
