Lessons For GOP From Crushing Losses, and Mamdani's Alarming Promises, with Sid Rosenberg and RealClearPolitics | Ep. 1187

Summary

The Megyn Kelly Show | Ep. 1187

“Lessons For GOP From Crushing Losses, and Mamdani's Alarming Promises”
Date: November 5, 2025
Host: Megyn Kelly (SiriusXM)
Guests: Sid Rosenberg (WABC), Tom Bevin, Carl Cannon, Andrew Walworth (RealClearPolitics)

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Episode Overview

Megyn Kelly, joined by Sid Rosenberg and the RealClearPolitics team, analyzes the sweeping Democratic victories across several key states and the GOP’s failures in the wake of “crushing losses.” The episode zeroes in on Zoran Mamdani’s victory as NYC mayor, discussing his radical policies and what his rise represents for the Republican Party, New York City, and American politics at large. The conversation is unfiltered, urgent, and occasionally raw in tone, challenging both party strategies and the mindset of voters in a shifting political landscape.

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Key Discussion Points

1. Immediate GOP Post-Mortem

• Loss Across the Board:
  Megyn laments, "Republicans lost across the board everywhere, in every race. There’s really no good news" (00:48), criticizing the party's lack of unity and focus.
• Trump Dependency:
  She asserts, "Donald Trump is strong. Republicans don’t know how to win... when Daddy’s not there." (01:23)
• GOP Infighting:
  Frustration at “policing a young person’s group chat” and infighting, instead of focusing on winnable policy battles.

2. Zoran Mamdani's Win in NYC

• Concerns Over Radicalism:
  Mamdani dubbed a "radical Muslim running the greatest city in the world into the ground" (02:30).
  Megyn fears for public safety, Jewish communities, and fiscal consequences.
• Promises and Identity Politics:
  Mamdani's speech emphasized immigrants and working class allegiances, but Megyn contests this:
  "The working class did not vote for you. They know you’re a liar, and... a wolf in sheep’s clothing." (04:43)
• Blaming Republican Split:
  Sliwa’s refusal to drop out is critiqued for splitting the anti-Mamdani vote.

3. Democratic Performance Nationwide

• Virginia:
  Dems swept major offices; Megyn slams voters for electing Jay Jones:
  "He means it. The Virginia voter said, we’re good. Defeated Jason Miyares by six points." (10:07)
• New Jersey & Georgia:
  Democrats dominated, outperforming polls by wide margins; Republican turnout was weak without Trump.

4. Generational & Demographic Shifts

• Youth Vote:
  Young voters (under 29 and up to 44) overwhelmingly went for Mamdani, highlighting generational divide and lack of historical context ("they don't remember 9/11"; 19:12).
• Foreign Born Support:
  Foreign-born New Yorkers formed the base of Mamdani’s support (25:49).

5. Reaction from Sid Rosenberg

• Rosenberg on Mamdani's Agenda:
  "He's a terrorist, he's a jihadist, he's a socialist, he's a Marxist, and he's a communist. And now he's the mayor of New York City." (17:43)
  • Fear for economic consequences, public safety, and especially Jewish safety in NYC.
• On ‘Free Stuff’ Politics:
  Sid waxes about the “22-year-old girl” lifestyle being subsidized, enabled by Mamdani’s policies (20:00).
• Rise of Anti-Israel Sentiment:
  Both Sid and Megyn discuss how it’s "become chic... to hate the Jews" (20:53) among younger/left-leaning New Yorkers.

6. Soundbites: Voter Disconnect

• Young Voter on Economics:
  "It’s so expensive to live here, to even afford like, to eat matcha in your hand right here... I am a student... I will not be paying taxes." (24:17)
• Megyn’s Editorial:
  "That is central casting right there" (24:54); a symptom of entitlement and economic naivety.

7. The RealClearPolitics Team Weighs In

• Democratic Landslide Analysis:
  All types of Democrats won: "The moderate ones, the radical ones—they all won. And not only won, they crushed." (37:44)
• Trump Effect:
  Without Trump on the ballot, Republicans lacked turnout; Democrats ran as if he was still the opposition (38:41).
• Mamdani as GOP Foil?
  The GOP’s plan to tie all Dems to Mamdani might backfire if he doesn’t fail dramatically and publicly (47:56).
• Warning Against Wishful Thinking:
  "Hoping that Mamdani wrecks New York City is not a plan, necessarily a strategy." (49:33)

8. Mamdani’s Socialist Promises

• His Agenda:
  "Freeze the rents for more than 2 million... make buses fast and free, universal childcare, hire thousands more teachers, cut a bloated bureaucracy." (55:26)
• RCP Response:
  Most promises are not within mayoral powers; predicted to fail but will be blamed on others (56:08).

9. Roots of Socialist Appeal

• Socialism as New Religion:
  “Socialism is as much a religion as it is an economic system, maybe more so... It promises you heaven on earth...” (72:02)
• Youth Discontent:
  Charlie Kirk: "This is yet another distress signal by young people to say, ‘hey, if you’re not going to fix our life economically, we’re going to get very radical politically.’" (63:51)

10. Broader Party Lessons and Future

• Republicans Must Engage on Affordability:
  "Republicans should be talking about affordability as well, because... inflation has taken a huge bite out of people’s paychecks." (65:20)
• Identity Politics Critique:
  Segments at episode’s end critique Michelle Obama and Karine Jean-Pierre for centering their identity in public life, lamenting the lack of gratefulness and "obsessive focus on identity" (101:53).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

Sharpest Critiques

• Megyn Kelly:
  "The Republican Party is not strong. Donald Trump is strong. Republicans don’t know how to win." (01:23)
• Sid Rosenberg (on Mamdani):
  "He’s a terrorist, he’s a jihadist, he’s a socialist, he’s a Marxist, and he’s a communist. And now he’s the mayor of New York City." (17:43)
• Rosenberg on Youth/Anti-Semitism:
  “It has become chic... to hate the Jews. So he had two real platforms here. A, everything's free... and B, if you’re marching in the streets because Israel's committing genocide, I got you too. It's brilliant." (20:53)
• Carl Cannon (on socialism):
  "He’s not an emperor of New York. He’s a mayor... Hoping that Mamdani wrecks New York is not a plan." (49:33)

Telling Soundbites

• Young Voter for Mamdani (clip):
  "It's so expensive to live here, to even afford like to eat matcha..." (24:17)
• Megyn Kelly:
  "We didn't even talk... He said $65 million to trans anyone who wants it... He basically wants New York to be a sanctuary for trans children." (06:16)
• Mamdani (victory speech):
  "So hear me, President Trump, when I say to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us. After all, the conventional wisdom would tell you that I am far from the perfect candidate. I am Muslim, I am a democratic socialist, and most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of this." (13:30)

Humorous/Edgy Moments

• "That's three F bombs in the first seven minutes. My apologies." — Megyn (10:16)
• "If you're white and you're successful, you're the enemy." — Sid Rosenberg (25:49)
• "...you can do nothing all day, watch Spongebob, maybe smoke a joint or two... people like Megan and Sid will pay for you." (26:12)
• "How about the number of foreign born New Yorkers who put him over the top..." — Megyn Kelly (25:49–26:12)
• "I hope you enjoy your genitals. Enjoy them while they're still intact." — Megyn Kelly, discussing celebratory attitudes toward Sharia law (60:04)
• Ronald Reagan clip: "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, I'm from the government and I'm here to help." (62:50)

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Key Timestamps

• 00:42 — GOP “disaster,” lack of message, reliance on Trump.
• 06:16–08:25 — Mamdani’s radical policy pledges and their implications.
• 13:01–14:29 — Mamdani’s victory speech + Sid Rosenberg reaction at RJC Summit.
• 16:57–24:54 — Full Sid Rosenberg interview: Jewish safety, youth vote, socialist appeal.
• 24:00 — Street interview with young Mamdani voter.
• 36:36 — RealClearPolitics joins: analysis of Dem sweep, Trump turnout effect.
• 47:56 — Discussion on Republican strategies and their flaws.
• 55:26 — Mamdani's “socialist” policy laundry list.
• 63:51 — Charlie Kirk on left-turn youth discontent (played/quoted).
• 65:20 — Affordability as a winning political theme.
• 72:02–74:51 — Socialism as a secular religion for American youth.
• 101:53 — End segment: Michelle Obama and Karine Jean-Pierre on identity.

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Takeaways for Listeners

• GOP Faces Deep Strategic Trouble: The party is failing to connect with younger and diverse voters, shows weak turnout without Trump, and suffers from internal distractions.
• NYC as a Symbolic Shift: Mamdani’s win marks not only a leftward shift in NYC but provides Republicans a “boogeyman” they may not be able to effectively use.
• Youth & Economic Anger Drives Politics: Affordability and perceived unfairness animate the younger electorate—often pulling them leftward when alternatives are lacking.
• Socialism Rises as an Ideological Substitute: The language and promises of socialism fill a void (material and spiritual) for a generation increasingly alienated by traditional parties or religion.
• Dems Unified, Republicans Not: The Democrats’ broad tent—moderates, progressives, radicals—performed consistently while GOP turnout and message discipline faltered.
• Identity Politics Critiqued: The episode closes with sharp critiques of Democratic identity politics, as embodied by Michelle Obama and Karine Jean-Pierre, demanding a renewed focus on gratitude, achievement, and broad-based appeal.

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This episode delivers a bracing postmortem of a pivotal election night—both summing up the left’s rapid advances in America’s bluest cities and states, and sounding an alarm about the GOP’s inability (and current unwillingness) to meaningfully respond. The conversation, colored by raw frustration, humor, and deep skepticism about progressive governance, is a must-listen for anyone seeking to understand the evolving battleground of American politics heading into 2026.

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Additional Resources

• Sid Rosenberg’s Show: “Sid and Friends in the Morning," WABC
• RealClearPolitics Podcast: Now streamable via the Megyn Kelly Channel on SiriusXM (Ch. 111, weekdays at noon ET)
• Further Reading: Charlie Kirk on youth political revolt, John Stossel’s videos on socialism and taxation, exit poll data for NY, NJ, VA races.

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Transcript

[Megyn Kelly]

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[Sid Rosenberg]

We limit ourselves to one bottle of wine a night.

[Carl Cannon]

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[Andrew Walworth]

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[Megyn Kelly]

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[Carl Cannon]

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[Megyn Kelly]

I'm giving all the gifts this year with that extra 5% off when I use my Nordstrom credit card. Santa who join the Nordy Club at Nordstrom Rack to unlock our best deals. It's easy. Big gifts, big perks. That's why you rack. Welcome to the Megyn Kelly show, live on Sirius XM channel 111 every weekday at noon East. Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to the Megyn Kelly Show. How are you feeling this morning? Like shit. Yeah, I can relate. Last night was a total and complete disaster. I realized these were blue states. I don't care. The margins are so large and Republicans lost across the board everywhere, in every race. There's really no good news. Literally. The only good news is how radical the Democrats are and how Mamdani will now be the poster child for every Republican to use against his opponent. I mean, they'll all have to explain where they stand on Mamdani as he wrecks New York. But the Republican Party needs to get its shit together asap. I'm really glad we spent the past couple of weeks, as Sean Davis of the Federalist put it, policing some young person's group chat, what a podcast host said and what the head of a think tank over at Heritage had to say. I'm really glad that the Republicans devoted so much time to that. That was a great move. Terrific move. Way to stick together to really shine a light on what matters. The Republicans like to lose. They enjoy losing. They enjoy when they are embattled and in a losing position and complaining. They love it. They do it really well. Less good at winning. Especially when Donald Trump is not there to get them over the line. The Republican Party is not strong. Donald Trump is strong. Republicans don't know how to win. They don't know who to run. They don't know what to do when he's not when daddy's not there to fly them across the finish line. And that's just been so obvious. Meanwhile, Trump is all over the Middle east while people's groceries bills are still high, they're still dealing with inflation, they're suffering like that's it. Okay, we're focus on domestic policy and on making people's lives better. That's really all I have to say. Those are my top line thoughts. There's a lot to get into on why this happened and so on, but that, that's my top line takeaway. That in the matter of, you know, an immigrant invasion that has now given us a radical Muslim running the greatest city in the world into the ground, that's where it's going to. He's not only going to be running it, he's going to run it into the ground. And God help New Yorkers. Thank God we got out. If I had a nickel for every time my husband and I have said that over the past few months. Thank God we got out. Thank God our old apartment building, which you could not get into when we first bought there many years ago, more than 10 years ago, now has like 50%, almost 50% inventory. It's like unheard of. They're fleeing, fleeing. And not for nothing, but that building had a lot of Orthodox Jewish people in it. I'm sure they're leaving for a number of reasons. One, it's an expensive building and I'm sure they have money. Two, they're Orthodox Jews. Who wants to be an Orthodox Jew under Mamdani in New York? It's insane. And the Orthodox tend to be more conservative and tend to vote Republican. Anyway, this guy last night, the anger that he spewed, I mean, he dropped the mask immediately, Mom, Donnie did immediately. He got up there and was all but rubbing his hands together, looking at his new power and what he's going to do to the city of New York. God bless them. I, I wish them all the luck and I'm worried on a personal basis because we go to New York. Of course, if you live anywhere near New York City, you go, you go for shows, you go for occasional dinners, you know, your kids go. I, I shudder to think of what he's going to do to it. I mean, we, we didn't even talk. We spent so much time on the socialism and his radical Islamist ties. We didn't even really spend a lot of time on the fact that budgeting. He said $65 million to trans anyone who wants it from, in state or out of State, minor, or adult on the taxpayer dime. He basically wants New York to be a sanctuary for trans children. Last night, his speech, he thanked every foreign nation known to man, like the Senegalese, whatever, hot dog salesman, the Nepalese cab driver. That's who he sees as his constituency. Meanwhile, he's up there talking about how this is for the guys who got the. The scars on their knuckles and the calluses on their hands. They voted against you, you cretin. They all voted against you. The working class can't stand you. They're not buying your bullshit. Because the working class never buys bullshit. They can't afford to. They actually have to struggle to put food on their tables and worry about their kids in school and going to a school that's safe and one that doesn't have 45 different languages coming from the teachers. Because of the mandatory immigration laws we have now, they. They cannot worry about bullshit. That's. The working class did not vote for you. They know you're a liar, and as I've been saying, a wolf in sheep's clothing. So don't spare me your speech about how the people with the calluses on their hands, you're from some rich Ugandan family. You're not even a born American. You only came over here. You have dual citizenship. Your mother said there's nothing American about you. Proudly. Your dad thinks we need to be sure to make sure that we don't unfairly castigate suicide bombers. That's who you are. The working class knows you're a phony. The Democrat parties, a nightmare. That they're the ones who put New York in this position where we had to choose between a sex pest grandma killer and somebody who appears to love radical Islam and wants to communize New York. Okay, that's. Those are the choices. Sliwa, you never had any chance. And at a minimum, you fucked over New York by staying in the race long before you had any chance. He's pulled, what, seven and a half percent? The voting's not done, but it's going to be very, very tight. It's basically 1 million for Mamdani and 1 million to Cuomo. And Sliwa split. But Sliwa got 7% of the overall vote. If he'd gotten out, if he'd said, okay, I'll work with Cuomo, I'll endorse him. I want a place in his administration. It could have gone the other way. But he didn't. He didn't. And look, I understand. He had no obligation to get out. He's a He's a Republican on the ticket, but he had no chance and everyone knew that. Everyone knew that, including Curtis. He didn't care about effing over his city. And his name is mud there, man. Good luck to him. He used to be greeted like a hero. You see him on the subway. Guardian angels, they're there to protect you. Like a hero. No more. No more. Except with the Mom Donnie crew, who I don't think is exactly his constituency. I guess I do have more to say, and I'll say it over the next couple of hours, but I want to get through this intro. And then to our first guest in Virginia. It was a fucking nightmare, too. That's three F bombs in the first seven minutes. My apologies. Nightmare. Democrat Abigail Spamberger won. That was no surprise. Winsome Earl Sears was losing. She came on here, spewed a bunch of bullshit about her internal polls. Bull. She got crushed by about 15 points. It wasn't even close. And amazingly, as predicted by MK Media's own Mark Halperin, Spamberger's victory was so large, she easily got that absolute vile Attorney General candidate Jay Jones over the hump. He won. Those texts came out about him wanting to kill Republicans for being Republicans and their children so that Republicans would have to suffer a position on which he doubled and then tripled down in writing and by voice via a telephone call to a Republican, to somebody he knew would not share his views, who kept hanging up on him and trying to end the conversation. He kept doing. He made. He means it. And the Virginia voter said, we're good. Yeah, he's. He's fine by us. Sure. He defeated Jason Mier as the Republican by six points. I wouldn't stay in Virginia. I would not stay there. I've lived in Virginia. I would not stay there if I had children in Virginia, knowing that the top law enforcement official is. Is fine if my children die because their mother is a Republican. That's how he actually feels. It wasn't a passing comment, A fly by night thought he tripled down in writing and by telephone call to a Republican to make sure she understood. And the Virginia voters don't give a shit. They want to see us dead. They're represented by those absolute monsters out there celebrating Charlie Kirk's death. That they are with them. They may not actually don the T shirt with the freedom and the fake blood. They may not be like Lucy Martinez in Chicago, actually doing the gun in her neck, celebratory, in front of the cameras, but they. They're on the same page. How else would they vote as their elect, as their top law enforcement officer, a guy who wants Republicans and their children dead. Maybe they said he didn't mean it. Based on what? Based on what? The fact that when he got caught, it became a national controversy. He came out and said, I'm sorry. Bull. You pretended to believe the apology because you just. You vote blue and you don't really care what happens the other side of the aisle. Some portion of Virginians did reject him. His margin of victory, Jay Jones's over Mierra's, was not as big. It was, you know, she won by 15 at the top of the tickets. Bamberger, he won by six. So there were some people of principle, some Democrats of principle in Virginia. To you, I tip my hat. Thank you for reminding us there is decency still in America. And to the rest of you, I don't understand you, and I can't relate to you. And I have no desire to win you over. You're not winnable. I only have a desire to defeat you. That's it. And we have to figure out how to do that. Republicans, get off your fucking couches. All right, that's four and ten minutes. I'm sorry, but get off. Get your fat ass off of the couches and get out there. Work on candidate quality. I'm sorry, but Winston Sears was never going to be able to do it. She hated Trump. She blew it. She campaigned against Trump. She was very anti Trump. That the Virginia coalition that did get off of its couch in 2024, they didn't. They didn't put Trump over the edge, but they. It was tighter. Loves Trump. Republicans can't win without Big Daddy. Well, guess what? And you're going to lose forever because he can't run again. Down in New Jersey, another blowout. Another blowout in favor of the Democrats. Mikey Sherrill defeating Republican Jack Ciattarelli by a ton. 13 points. 13 polls had showed the race within the margin of error in the final days. Once again, the polls were wrong. Way wrong. Polymarket is the only thing you can trust. And then there's New York City, which I got to already. I'm going to show you Mamdani's. A little bit of Mamdani's victory speech, okay? Like, this guy, he is so radical. And we heard Kevin o' Leary say, well, he's gonna be forced to moderate. Does he sound moderate? Because he does not seem to be headed down the path of Moder based on what we saw last night. In fact, he went directly like that from the super smiley, like social media guy who used to be a rapper and he's just gonna be a mayor for everybody. And like, we can worry about the fair ability to like the guy who loves the radical Islamist imam. That's who he sounded like last night. Listen.

[Sid Rosenberg]

As has so often occurred, the billionaire class has sought to convince those making $30 an hour. But their enemies are those earning $20 an hour. They can play by the same rules as the rest of us. New York will remain a city of immigrants, A city built by immigrants, powered.

[Megyn Kelly]

By immigrants.

[Sid Rosenberg]

And as of tonight, led by an immigrant. So hear me, President Trump, when I say to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us. After all, the conventional wisdom would tell you that I am far from the perfect candidate. I am Muslim, I am a democratic socialist. And most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of this.

[Megyn Kelly]

One of the strongest voices warning about Mamdani has been WABC radio host in New York, Sid Rosenberg. Here he is Saturday at the Republican Jewish Coalition Leadership Summit. Watch.

[Sid Rosenberg]

When this group gets together and talks about Israel, talks about Hamas, as important as it is now, it's home. And when they took over New York City, which they're about to do in four or five days, the rest of the country gets a heck of a lot easier. We all can't move to Florida. I'm sorry, Siggy. I lived in Boca for 16 years. I was bored to death. So some of us that actually like New York City, some of our better states in this country, it's scary. So I think we need to figure out as a group of strong and proud Jewish people, what do we do from here? How do we make sure that this invasion doesn't continue? And how do we make sure that my 16 year old son Gabriel and 21 year old daughter Ava can take the sixth train in New York City and where their Star of David and not worry about getting home safely.

[Megyn Kelly]

And that's the least of our problems. The Jews have a have a whole separate problem with this guy. New Yorkers in general have a massive one. What does he believe? Who are his friends and why? And what is his plan for the greatest city in the world? Sid is the host of Sid and Friends in the Morning and he joins me now. Grand Canyon University, an affordable private Christian university based in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona, is one of the largest universities in the country. Praised for its culture of community and impact, GCU integrates the free market system, a welcoming Christian worldview and free and open discourse into more than 360 academic programs, including more than 300 online, join a nationwide community of learners. Redefining what online education looks like through academically rigorous, industry driven programs that can spark bold ideas and prepare you for a future that matters. In addition to federal grants and aid, GCU's online students receive nearly $161 million in institutional scholarships in 2024. Find your purpose at Grand Canyon University. Private, Christian, Affordable. Visit gcu. Edu Myoffer to see the scholarships you may qualify for. Sid, thank you so much for being here. Sid Rosenberg, your reaction to this devastating development?

[Sid Rosenberg]

Devastating is the right word. Megan. First of all, I'm really, really happy to be here. This is a huge honor for me. Thank you very much. I gotta tell you a quick story. I'm talking to producer Allison before I come on and I say, you know, a year ago today was the day that President Trump won the election. One year ago today, I said, the week before that, I spoke at Madison Square Garden at Trump's rally, and I was in a column in the New York Times two days after that for cursing more than anybody else on stage that day. I said, how is Meghan gonna handle that? He said, don't worry. She curses once in a while herself. Another year. He said, fuck four times already. I know I'm in good company.

[Megyn Kelly]

My mom does not approve. My mom can handle any swear with that one. She'll tally them up and call me, sorry, mom, but it's what a day we're having, Sid.

[Sid Rosenberg]

No, you're right. Listen, it's a brutal, brutal day. You described it perfectly. Virginia, New Jersey. But here in New York, it's really scary. Here's a guy that I describe in five words. He's a terrorist, he's a jihadist, he's a socialist, he's a Marxist, and he's a communist. And now he's the mayor of New York City also. You nailed it. Here's a guy that was smiling an awful lot. He even went back on some of his prior statements defunding the police. All of a sudden, he went from a viral anti Semite to a guy that loved the Jews. And last night, as soon as he won, as you pointed out, he had that angry yelling speech like, I'm coming to get you. If you are a capitalist, if you are a Jew, if you love New York City, I'm coming to get you. So the people that did not vote for Mamdani, which is about half the city, by the way, Meghan, a lot of folks, they wake up this morning and they are Scared to death. They are scared to death. The economic implications are gonna be brutal. You know, 40, 48% of the taxes is paid by about 1% of the people that live here. Those are the billionaires, people like my boss, darn Katz, Matitis. They're gonna leave. So economically it's a huge issue. Jewish people like myself, all of a sudden it's no longer safe. There's about 10 different things to look at that say Mamdani will make Bull de Blasio look like Rudy Giuliani.

[Megyn Kelly]

The young people put him over the top. I mean, under 29 guaranteed, they voted for Mamdani. And up to 40, 44, they voted for Mamdani. Anybody over 45 voted for Cuomo and a few for Sliwa. But these young people, Sid, the ones in that first group, under 29, they don't even remember 9, 11. They don't. It's like they don't teach history anymore and they have no personal memory of it. And so there's absolutely no hesitancy about electing a guy who's actually close to a terror backing imam, who testified for the blind sheikh who tried to bring down the Towers in 1993.

[Sid Rosenberg]

That is all true. And they don't teach about this stuff. You know, I've got two children. One's 21. My daughter Ava, she just graduated college in the UK. But my son Gabe, he's 16, he goes to school in the city. They never teach making about 9, 11. They don't teach about World War II or the Holocaust. All they talk about is slavery and civil rights. They go over and over again. So they have no appreciation. And look, here are the facts. You're a 22 year old girl, right? You don't really have a job. You get up at 11 o' clock in the morning, you go to Starbucks, you text all day, you're Snapchatting all day. Then you hit the bars in Williamsburg, Brooklyn at about 10 o' clock at night and you go to bed. You have an odd job that pays you very little money. But don't worry because mommy and daddy are paying the rent, which is getting expensive. But here's the good news. I'm taking care of you. So you're a young kid who's lazy, living in New York, who only wants to go out and party and have fun. And Mamdani says, I'm going to take care of you. That's one of the reasons why he's so attractive. Here's the second thing. Unbelievably Israel, of course has the most Jews of any place in the world. Second, New York City. It has become chic, Meghan. It has become cool to hate the Jews. So he had two real platforms here. A, everything's free. I got you. Don't Worry, you young 22 year old girl. And B, if you're marching in the streets because Israel's committing genocide, I got you too. It's brilliant.

[Megyn Kelly]

I totally agree with you.

[Carl Cannon]

Brilliant.

[Megyn Kelly]

That the anti Israel hatred that's been growing, especially on the Democrat party and New York is all Democrats 100% played a role here. There's no question. And that includes a lot of American Jews. Like it's not that Jews couldn't be critical of Israel, but there's a lot of like self hatred or self loathing at least in the vote, in the way they vote in, in New York. How, how, how could Jewish people in New York elect this guy?

[Sid Rosenberg]

You know, it's funny you asked that. So I've been very, very critical of the liberal American Jew. When I say critical, I'm nasty, okay? I'm not nice. So I get a text from my wife about two weeks ago. She goes, sidney, will you do me a favor? You are Jewish, They're Jewish. Can you lighten up a little bit? This is not blm. This is not, you know, the Democrats. I said, Danielle, sweetheart, I will, I'll try. So I spent the last two weeks trying to be a little nicer to my brethren, my Jewish people. And then like you said, they go out and vote for this guy. I don't know if it's 14%, if it's 25%, it doesn't matter. The fact is there are Jews that are supporting Mamdani. There are Jews that every day are in with the Israel is committing genocide crowd and all that nonsense. So I don't know why they do it. I think this American Jews, New York Jews don't care about Israel. You know, President Trump on my show last summer said to me, he said, sid, you know what? Fifteen years ago the lobby that was the strongest in D.C. was Israel. Okay? That was the one. You never heard a Republican or a Democrat ever complain about Israel. He goes, now no one has anything nice to say except for me and a few Republicans. So it has gone completely sideways. And the Jew in New York, what do they care about? Their shul in the, on the Upper east side on Saturday morning, their vacation home somewhere in New Jersey? They don't care about Israel. They don't care about the religion. They barely care about the hostages that thank God at home now. So it is a huge issue of the liberal Jew in America is as dangerous as any group in this country.

[Megyn Kelly]

You mentioned the young like disaffected person. Like the young girl who whatever, she can't pay her rent but her parents have got her so she's not worried. Got a great sound bite for you on that front. Independent journalist Nick Shirley spoke to one woman about affordability in New York. And look at this clip. 9C here. And who are you voting for? I think I'm gonna vote for Zoran. Yeah. Why do you think so many young people are voting for Zoran?

[Carl Cannon]

I feel like he's the only one.

[Megyn Kelly]

That'S like coming up with like plans that young people have been like. Like plans to help how the situation.

[Carl Cannon]

Is in New York right now for young people.

[Megyn Kelly]

It's so expensive to live here, to even afford like to eat matcha in.

[Carl Cannon]

Your hand right here. Oh yeah.

[Megyn Kelly]

How much money do you spend on matcha here a day? Almost $10. Literally. We should absolutely tax the rich. They need to pay their dues for what they have done to the working class communities and people. They should be the ones paying for majority of stuff. I am a student. I don't have like a full time job so I will not be paying taxes.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Wow.

[Megyn Kelly]

I mean that is central casting right there.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Point said that is first of all not exactly immense meeting those two. Right. I think she said like 19 times. Like this, like this, like that. But that's the issue, right? This guy says it's okay, you can be a student. And Sid Rosenberg, who gets up at 3 o' clock in the morning every day, buses ass every day, has to get to New York City before 5am every day. Then takes a train and a ferry to get back to Queens sometime at night. Don't worry. Because Sid Rosenberg, because A he's white, which has now become the enemy to America. If you're white and you're successful, you're the enemy. B, he makes a good living because he works hard. He's going to pay for you. So we're at the point now with people like Mamdani and in America where if you're a hardworking guy, specifically white and successful or female, we're going to pay your bill because we have become the enemy.

[Megyn Kelly]

How about the number of foreign born New Yorkers who put him over the top? Only I think it was 34% of those who lived in New York their whole lives voted for Mamdani. And the vast majority of people who voted for him and put him over the top were foreign born New Yorkers who wanted a foreign born mayor.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Look, you said it at the very top. You're right. He thanked like 30 countries. I didn't even know the name of two or three of these countries. I swear to God. I mean, and they live here, Meghan, they live here. So yes, he got the majority of those folks. Look, every single exit poll, whether it was, you know, folks from different countries, even gender, he did well there. Latinos, he did well there. Blacks, he did well there. But to your point, yes, if you're from outside this country and you live in New York and you want to live the dream, the dream used to be Megan, you get up early in the morning like I do, like you do. You work a full day, you're exhausted at night, maybe you can watch an hour of television, you fall asleep, you feel good about yourself. The new dream is you can do nothing. Do nothing all day, watch spongebob, maybe smoke a, smoke a joint or two, have yourself a bowl of cereal and a nice lunch and people like Megan and Sid are going to pay for you. So now you can come here from another country and guess what? Have the greatest life you can possibly have. So we're so diverse already in New York and it's getting more and more diverse every day. They don't want Andrew Cuomo, he's gonna make you work for your money. Or Curtis Sleever, I guess they want somebody who's gonna make their life as easy as possible and that's this creep Mamdani.

[Megyn Kelly]

It doesn't work. John Stossel, dear man, good friend, did he does these great online videos and there are two. You should go to his X feed listening audience and look at the top two on how socialism has worked out in the past in America and elsewhere. And in particular taxing the rich more to cover these new goody programs or deficit shortfalls, whatever. It never works. The rich people always win. They either leave or they get better at hiding their money. But they will not wind up footing the bill and he will not be able to foot the bill for these programs. They will flee. Just like the one smart thing I've heard Governor Kathy Hochul say. She's like, I can't raise the taxes on the rich people anymore. They'll leave New York already. Here in Connecticut, you can't get a home in the surrounding suburbs of New York. Already they're filling up with expats leaving New York by droves. Like I said, my old apartment building is like approaching more than one third Empty. Approaching one half empty, which is unheard of, Sid. So you've got this, this. These promises of freebies that are gonna make everybody's lives better, but they're not gonna come true because the money base is gonna leave and they never work out. And one other point, having just been two summers ago to Scandinavia, we went to Sweden, Norway and Denmark, which are heavily socialist, right? Especially Sweden and Norway. You know what they have? They have socialism over there. They have a form of socialism. And you know what else they have the number one most use of antidepressants in the world. No one is happy. No one feels driven. No one feels like they can improve their own lives. No one feels like there's any innovation that they could come up with or that they. That their country could do, which gives you a sense of national pride. They don't have a Steve Jobs. They don't have. Elon Musk is foreign born, but now he's interred. They don't have people like that. Cause they don't have a society that can encourage that. And these young idiot New Yorkers have this utopia version of socialism in their minds that they're about to find out the hard way. Never comes through.

[Sid Rosenberg]

No, the precedence has been set. You know, you look at Fidel Castro, Cuba, that was a unmitigated disaster. You look at Venezuela, right? Recently, Megan. Venezuela, a complete disaster. Look, they're gonna leave here. There's no doubt about it. My boss, Don Casmatides will probably stay. Maybe Bill Ackman stays too. But they're gonna leave. You know, I was talking to Rick Scott on my radio show this morning. The former governor in Florida, now, Senator, he's like, sid, come on back. I know you lived in Boca. Come on back. I was talking to Sean Hannity last night for a good hour, and he said, sid, come on down. We want you back here. So not only are people gonna go back to Florida, but it seems like the Floridians and the people in charge. I saw Ron DeSantis last night. They want us. So they actually, I guess the number is about 9%. They expect about 9%, which is just less than a million people to go to Florida, right? That's a big number, Meghan. So they're gonna leave. There's no question about it. And you're gonna be stuck here with a bunch of people who are not American, with a broke city and no answers. And Kathy Hochul, she is every bit as bad as any bad mayor has been here. She is an absolute horrible governor right there with cuomo. You name it. Elise Stefanik cannot win that race soon enough. And we gotta figure out if Elise wins if we've got a lease in Albany. Megan. And we've got Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. and in 2029, you've got me as the mayor.

[Megyn Kelly]

We'll fix New York, God willing. I don't think I've been that good a person, but you got my vote. Sid, thank you. Thank you so much. I'm so sad that we're having this discussion instead of something that's more hopeful. But it is what it is. You got to get real. All the best to you, my friend.

[Sid Rosenberg]

You too. You're great, Megan. Thank you so much.

[Megyn Kelly]

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[Carl Cannon]

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[Sid Rosenberg]

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[Megyn Kelly]

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[Sid Rosenberg]

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[Megyn Kelly]

Zoram Mamdami winning in the mayoral race in New York City by overwhelming margins. It was not close. He absolutely crushed it. Young people in particular running to the polls to push him over the top. The turnout in Manhattan versus the last mayoral election was double. It was about a million. Last time around, it was 2 million this time around. In particular, young people running to elect this guy and his promises of socialism. Welcome back to the Megyn Kelly Show. Tom Bevin, Carl Cannon, and Andrew Walworth of Real Clear Politics are with me now. They're not only hosts of a great podcast, there are new neighbors on the Megyn Kelly channel live every morning at 11am Eastern. So if you're listening to us via podcast or YouTube and you guys want to get all the real care politics analysis straight into the Megyn Kelly show as soon as it airs, you should be listening to us live on Sirius XM live or on the Sirius XM app. Great to see you guys today. You had a big exclusive guest with speaker Mike Johnson. So nicely done. Tell me everything. How did this happen? I want to talk about it. All we got to do, Mom. Donnie Spamberger, J. Jones Chitterelli losing to this Mikey Sherrill who appears to have committed fraud in her graduation. Okay, there's a lot to go over. That terrible result in that one Georgia race where all three of those local board members were were kicked out for the first time ever. It was it an energy thing. I don't know what it was, but Marjorie Taylor Greene was talking about it. Steve Bannon was talking about it. So signs of trouble in Georgia. There's a lot to go over. Carl.

[Tom Bevin]

You start the counter revolution has begun. Megan. It's, it's in it. It's hard for us to figure out what the real moral of the story is for the Democratic Party. Abigail Spanberger is the generic Democrat. She has. She always votes Democratic. She doesn't go off and talk about dismantling capitalism, but she, but she won't. She's with the Democrats on transgender athletes and she won't even call for convicted sex offenders to be 58 year old convicted sex offenders to be removed from girls, you know, little girls, locker rooms in public pools in Fairfax county and Arlington county. And, and she won. And mom, Donnie, who fashions himself, he's kind of a, you know, revolutionary. There's a lot of, I mean, he's never done anything. It's like, it's like a theater kid pretending to be Che Guevara, but, but he wins big. So the Democrats are going to have to, you know, the speaker of the House told us that Mamdani is the face of the Democratic Party. We're not so sure that's true, but.

[Megyn Kelly]

Well, that's what the Republicans are hoping.

[Carl Cannon]

That's right.

[Tom Bevin]

But the constant was, you know, the Democrats won. The variable was which kind of Democrat. And all of them, all of them ran against Donald Trump down the, you know, city council.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah. The answer is all of them. So that, I mean, look, I know, and I see Republican spinners online and they're smart, trying to say, this is not your grandfather's Republican Party. This party is as radical as it comes. You know, Mamdani is going to be hung around like an albatross on every Democratic candidate running in 2026. I get all that. That's smart politics. But realistically, every Democrat won. The moderate ones, the radical ones, they all won. And not only won, they crushed. They outperformed the margins, they outperformed the polls. The races that were supposed to be tight weren't. They ran away with it. You tell me, Tom Bevin, why?

[Carl Cannon]

Well, because, you know, as Carl mentioned, so Donald Trump is a turnout machine.

[Tom Bevin]

Right?

[Carl Cannon]

We know that. And when he's on the ballot, MAGA turns out Democrats turn out. And you have these really close elections, which we've seen in 2016, 2020 and 24. Okay, but when Donald Trump is not on the ballot, Right. Democrats still run as if he's on the ballot. I mean, you look at these exit poll numbers. I mean, all these Democrats, they were angry, they were off at Donald Trump, and, and they all came out in huge numbers for Democrats. But on the other side, Republicans didn't. I mean, Jack chitter really got 122,000 more votes this year than he got four years ago. But he was overwhelmed by the fact that Mikey Sherrill got 400,000 more votes than Phil Murphy got. She got 400,000 less votes than Kamala Harris just got last year in a presidential race. So. So you had sort of a double whammy. Democrats still operating as if Trump is on the ballot and Republicans, you know, not getting all of those disaffected voters that Trump brings into the process. And look, this happened in the midterms in 2018, 2022. I mean, this is a constant problem for not just Trump, but other, but, but other presidents as well, to try and, you know, but I think, I think it's more acute with Trump because he is so. He is the movement. He is the man larger than life people. He's larger than life and people love him. And so as a result, you know, what we thought was going to be a close race in New Jersey turned out to be just a landslide.

[Megyn Kelly]

Crushed. Crushed. She did. Mikey Sherrill crushed Jack Ciattarelli, as did Abigail Spamberger, who crushed Winsome Sears. I mean, it was just up and down the ballot. Here's Trump. Andrew sought to take a listen.

[Sid Rosenberg]

And last night, it was not expected.

[Megyn Kelly]

To be a victory. It was very Democrat areas, but I don't think it was good for Republicans. I don't think it was good. I'm not sure it was good for anybody, but we had an interesting evening.

[Andrew Walworth]

And we learned a lot.

[Megyn Kelly]

Okay. And then he went on to say, you know, I wasn't on the ballot. Like, that's, that's the thing. Like, number one, the shutdown played a role. And number two, I wasn't on the ballot. Now, is it, you know, somewhat narcissistic? Yes. Is it true? Yes. Yes. We've talked many times on the program about how Trump made it kind of cool. And I used to joke to be a Republican again, no, like, ever. He made it cool to be a Republican, but it's just him. No one else is making it cool to be a Republican. No one felt inspired, I mean, literally no one, by Winsome Sears. And like, obviously, Curtis Lewo was a non factor. The Republican Party is not strong, Andrew. It's not.

[Andrew Walworth]

Yeah, well, good point. Although, you know, he also wasn't that involved in this election. I mean, he didn't. He didn't sort of.

[Megyn Kelly]

Well, that's because these candidates kept him at arm's length. Right, right. Citarelli and Winsome Sears. Ciatarelli, I think, was closer to Trump than Winsome Sears, but she, she'd been dumping on him, and some of Trump's most ardent supporters had been pointing that out. She dumped him in I'm in 24 and in 22 loudly. So no wonder he didn't want to put his arms around her and give her the big embrace. Keep going.

[Andrew Walworth]

Yeah. No, I was just going to say so. I mean, we really didn't run the experiment that he. Because he wasn't out there at all. So we don't know what would have happened if he had been more involved, although I, I would imagine that would have ended up about the same. I will say this. I mean, I think that Gavin Newsom is the big winner of the night because why?

[Megyn Kelly]

Because he's getting five more seats out of California. In, like, now you're going to have districts that are entirely Republican with Democrat representatives because they passed this constitutional amendment in California that allows him to redistrict where he wasn't allowed to before. And California and the Dems are going to get five new House seats out of this. Keep going.

[Andrew Walworth]

Yeah, but what he really got out of it was he, he emerged as the guy who really has stood up to the president in terms of national politics at this point. He had all these other Democrats coming into his state to help him get this done, and he got it done. You know, we went back. If you look at the polls before when they, when they announced Prop 50, it was not a popular initiative and ended up killing it. And something like 80% of the people in the exit polls, at least according to NBC, said they voted for it, not because it was good for California, but because it stopped Trump.

[Megyn Kelly]

Well, once again, but California is almost 40% Republican. So where were they? Why didn't they turn out to try to stop it?

[Andrew Walworth]

Well, Carl might be able to speak to that.

[Tom Bevin]

Well, I'm out here in California.

[Megyn Kelly]

Those are your people, Carl.

[Tom Bevin]

There were no, there were no ads. There was no leader. There's no real leader of the Republican Party in this state. They trotted out people like Kevin McCarthy, you know, who never ran statewide and was deposed by his own conference, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. I, I got some pushback from Andy, but I. You had a whole generation of voters here in California who don't really remember Schwarzenegger.

[Carl Cannon]

I was the one who pushed back on that. Carl, what you did, Tom did.

[Tom Bevin]

I'm sorry, Megan, that was.

[Megyn Kelly]

Tom is also anti Trump. So it's like they're assuming about these California voters that they're anti Trump. And I'm here to tell you they're not. I know a lot of these people, they're listening to this show right now. We have a ton of fans out there. They are not anti Trump Republicans, but they're treated by people like Schwarzenegger, like they are, you know, like he's still the God of their party and he's not.

[Tom Bevin]

Well, the point was that they were vastly outspent. All the energy here was. And, you know, Gavin Newsom said this morning, you know, it was 100 day sprint or something, whatever it was, 120 day sprint. He sprung this on people so fast you almost didn't have time to, to absorb what was going on. There are 5.7 million registered Republicans in California and another couple of million who vote Republican, as you pointed out, Megan, that now they're gonna have four or five congressional representatives. I mean, the neighboring state of Arizona has 1.5 million registered Republicans and they have five, four or five Republican congressmen. So what Newsom did and what the California electorate went along with was disenfranchising millions of people, basically not giving them any representation in Washington and claiming they're doing this under the guise of saving democracy. It was, it was brazen, it was cynical, and it worked.

[Megyn Kelly]

I mean, it was a direct response to what happened in Texas with the redistricting there, which was all, I mean, like, it was based on race. And, and they tried to rectify it, but it looked nakedly political, yada, yada yada. It resulted in more Republican seats. Then Gavin Newsom said, I'll do this. We're having the same problem right now on the filibuster, where you remember what happened when Harry Reid was the Senate Majority leader. He took away the filibuster for lower court judges so that they could get President Obama's judges confirmed. And Mitch McConnell, who was the minority leader, said, you will rue the day. And then the Republicans took control over Trump under Trump, and they got rid of the filibuster for Supreme Court Jud. And that is how Trump got three of his confirmed three seats on the US Supreme Court, something the Democrats still rue. And notwithstanding all of that, President Trump right now is calling for the elimination of the filibuster as a legislative proposition in the US Senate, which would be a watershed moment for America Count me against it. You need minority rights in the Senate. The that is a just a dangerous move we do not want to take. It's so shortsighted. I understand his frustration completely. But wait, let me go back to Mamdani for one second because it's all connected. I want to play something Ari Fleischer said on Fox News last night. Tom saw 20.

[Carl Cannon]

Madame will be the middle name of every Democrat running in every race around the country. And the socialist win tonight is not over. There's a race in Minnesota right now where a socialist may beat the incumbent Democratic senator of Minneapolis. Keep your eye on that race. Socialism is a growing problem for the Democratic Party. And the more the Democrats embrace socialism with all the horrors that it entails, the crime that will take place in New York City, the abandonment of New York City by the successful and the taxpayer, this is what's going to hurt the Democratic reputation and base going forward. It's hollowing out the Democratic Party. I would so much rather, even with tonight's bad results, be the Republicans win the big picture than the Democrats.

[Megyn Kelly]

And I just want to say one thing about that Minneapolis race for mayor, that Omar Fateh and Jacob Fry, the, you know, George Floyd kneeling, mask wearing, current mayor, are in a ranked choice voting battle right now. Jacob Fry got, I think 45 and Omar Fateh got 35%. But you can't, you have to get over 50 to win. So now it goes to, I don't totally understand it, but now they, they count people second choice and we don't know who's won that yet. Um, so we don't know whether the socialist won, but frankly, both of them are equally far left and loons. Good luck, Minneapolis. They're your problem now in any event. Go ahead, Tom, on that. Everybody's gonna wear Mamdani around their necks if the Republicans do this. Right?

[Carl Cannon]

Well, that's certainly the Republican plan. And that's what we heard from Mike Johnson. I mean, he was very clear about that. The question is, is that, is that going to be a successful strategy in the long term? I suppose if Mamdani wrecks New York City in the next nine months, yeah, it'll be great for Republicans in the midterms. But what if he doesn't? What if it's a slower process than that? To your point, Megan, I think Republicans have to be pretty clear eyed about this. And Johnson was, I don't want to say he was flip about it, but he was just kind of like, look, I was bullish before this. I'm bullish after this, this was Democrats voting in blue states and that's all it was. And he said the other argument he used, he said, well, you know, our policies haven't even taken effect yet. That's the one big beautiful bill. We're still not operating. Those are going to go into effect at the end of the year and then voters are going to start to see, you know, all these great things. And I thought to myself, that's exactly what Joe Biden said when he was running, is that, you know what? Voters just don't, they haven't felt my policies. They need another year or two years or four years. That's why I need more time in office. And you know, we're just not explaining them properly. And if voters just. It's a communications problem and that, that does not work. It never has worked. And I think Republicans have to be clear eyed about the fact that the economy was the number one issue in, in both states in New Jersey and Virginia. Inflation, health care was big in Virginia and Democrats were winning those issues. And so I think Republicans have to be pretty clear eyed about what happened last night and what they can do moving forward to put themselves in a position to win. Hoping that Mamdani wrecks New York City is not a plan necessarily a strategy. That's right.

[Megyn Kelly]

No, I so agree with you. It's like I really have no tolerance for these Republicans who are like on the bright side today. Like, well, what about this? Well, these were Democrat seats. Of course they were Democrat states. We knew that. But you read the tea leaves. Look at what actually happened there. Why did the Republicans, same guy, Jack ciatarelli, come within three points of defeating the Democrat opponent he faced four years ago and got trounced by some 15 points today. Why? Maybe that's a trend we should pay some attention to before we go into the midterms. I mean, as much as you want to make yourself feel better with your comfy white blanket that it's only, oh, it's like the blue states. That's a very dangerous strategy. I'm sure the Democrats would love for these Republican naval gazers to pursue this just in breaking news. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry has been elected to a third term, defeating State Senator Omar Fateh by 6 percentage points on the second ballot. So literally, as I was saying what I was saying that crossed the wires, they did the second vote, whatever. The people don't actually vote, but they look at what there was a second choice was. And so now that guy Omar Fateh, whose campaign rallies actually look like you were in Somalia. If you, you don't need to go to Somalia. You just watch one of this guy's campaign rallies and, and listen. And you. It's like you've been there. Thank God he's been defeated. But we've had many Muslims win all over Maine. By the way, what's going on with Maine? Many Muslims took office there. Muslims now running the greatest and biggest jewel that America has. New York City. And it came very close in Minneapolis. And of course one is running Dearborn, Michigan. And look, the, the audience knows how I feel about this. How much time do I have here, Steve, before we have to take a break too hard? All right, I'm gonna hold this then until the opposite end. Cause I've got another thing I wanna run by you. But he's got a point, does he not Carl? That like the Republicans, they're going to. We're not, we're never going to stop hearing about Mamdani. But think about like the Virginia race. If, if you just went to Abigail Spamberger, who is like a piece of melba toast and tried to make her into mom Donnie, it would not have worked.

[Tom Bevin]

Well, the Democrats didn't have to do anything. This is the. She ran this rope a dope campaign where it was hard to even know what she believed in. And they kept hitting her with these ads about J. Jones, you know, his fantasies about murdering children. They hit her about these 58 year old sex offender wandering into a girl's locker room and the mother hiding his. Her seven year old in a public swimming pool. And he said, oh, I'm a woman now. And she, she wouldn't engage on that. She. She ran this very safe campaign because she knew what was going on. Her polls and the public polls showed the same thing. She didn't have to do anything to win. And so you know, mom, Donnie wasn't different thing. He came out of nowhere. He's kind of, it's kind of an energetic demagogue. But the, the, the constant is whatever. You know, the constant is the Democrat one. Whatever kind of campaign they won. And to say that we're going to make Mamdani the face of the party. First of all, to Tom's point, I don't hope he wrecks the city of New York. What kind of, what, what kind of position Republicans put them in, put themselves in where they have to root for the failure of a great American city. And secondly, he seems a little. He's not, he's not an emperor of New York. He's a mayor of New York. New York's pretty resilient city.

[Megyn Kelly]

I was talking about it, but he was talking about it. It's, it's resilient, but it's already staggering. It's like the, you know, the war scene. You've already taken several shots and you're on your last leg and now we take this one. That's the problem. Stand by. We'll be right back. A lot more to cover. You know about fomo, right? Fear of missing out. Listen up. Don't miss out on protecting your future. For around the same price per month as one of your streaming services, you can break the FOMO cycle and secure your and your family's future by finding life [e-mail] select' takes the guesswork out of finding the right life insurance policy. You don't have to sort through dozens of confusing options on your own. Instead, one of their licensed agents will find the right policy at the right price for you. Comparing plans from trusted top rated insurance companies to find a policy that fits your health, your lifestyle and your budget. And they work for you for free. You know why I'm laughing? Life insurance is never cheaper than it is today. Get the right life insurance for you for less and save more than [e-mail] Megan now this is actually is a great product. I've actually gotten lots of positive feedback on selectquote.com I'm laughing because they say you don't want FOMO and it's a life insurance ad and we all know there is going to be MO whether or not we have the foe and there's no life insurance company that can save us from mo but we can protect our families by saving more than 50% on term life [e-mail] Megan Today the guys from RealClear Politics are back with me. Guys, I was just thinking to myself, it's so cathartic to be on the air like this after an election night because when I was at Fox, you know, I was in this straight news role where I could never say how I really felt. You know, you could only kind of drive the conversation, which is the job and I did the job. But it's so much nicer just to be able to express how I really feel. For me, it's cathartic. Okay, let's. You mentioned something about Mamdani and government and like he's not a king. He thinks he is. The no kings crowd certainly responded to his king like messaging. Listen to this terrifying bit of predictions by him. Sat 5.

[Sid Rosenberg]

An agenda that will freeze the rents for more than 2 million rent stabilized tenants. Make buses fast and free.

[Megyn Kelly]

Oh, great.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Universal child care across our city.

[Megyn Kelly]

Good luck.

[Sid Rosenberg]

We will hire thousands more teachers. We will cut waste from a bloated bureaucracy.

[Megyn Kelly]

Sure.

[Sid Rosenberg]

We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about.

[Megyn Kelly]

Whoa. What? Wow, Andrew, that's a problem.

[Andrew Walworth]

Yeah, well, it's socialism is what he's describing. There's no doubt about that. He's got. There's a couple issues. One is that a lot of the stuff he can't do. I mean the. He can't raise taxes. That's something that the governor's got to do and she's already said she's not.

[Carl Cannon]

Going to do it.

[Andrew Walworth]

As far as the free buses go, there's a transport board and there's bonds involved. It's kind of complicated.

[Megyn Kelly]

By the way, how's it gonna make buses faster? Like, where does he get that power?

[Andrew Walworth]

I know the answer to this. Do you want to know what the theory is? The theory is that by people not having to put money in, that will make it faster and easier for the buses to run.

[Tom Bevin]

I'm happy to hear you say that, Andy. I thought they were gonna run over pedestrians.

[Carl Cannon]

This is better.

[Megyn Kelly]

They already do that. Have you ever stood in New York when the bus is going by, there's not even half an inch between the bus its wheels. And you, you, you have a kid. Trust me, I had three kids who all of whom were spent their 0 to 10 years in New York. They've got to get way the hell. But you can't like be a foot back from the edge of the curve. You got to be like three feet back. It's terrifying. Go ahead, Andrew.

[Andrew Walworth]

Yeah. To say nothing in the bike lanes. That's my fear when I'm in New.

[Megyn Kelly]

York City that people devastated.

[Andrew Walworth]

So anyway, so he's not gonna be able to do a lot of this stuff. A lot of the stuff isn't gonna work. I mean, if anyone has ever gone to a co op. When I was a kid, college, you know, we had a college co op for food. And it was terrible. It was a disaster. And you went down the street to Johnny's Foodmaster. That was the place in Somerville. That was the big, you know, grocery store. And it was a. It was a thing of beauty. It was lit up at night. And that's one of the reasons I became a capitalist was because I had that experience where I saw what happens at the Co op. The way the vegetables looked. And the way the vegetables looked at Johnny's Foodmaster, 100%. I don't know if Johnny's Foodmaster is still there, but anyway. But the thing is with socialism, what you do is you blame someone else. So they will blame Donald Trump, who's already sort of led into this narrative a little bit by saying, I'm not going to send them money. So there'll be a hundred reasons why socialism doesn't work in New York and none of them will have to do with socialism itself. Socialism works. It's just we've never tried it. You have to remember that that's the sort of basic promise of socialism.

[Megyn Kelly]

That's the reason why it was all young people, you know, young nimrods who actually think, gee, this is a new idea we should try. No one's ever tried this before. How could socialism work? Maybe that's the answer to all of our problems. We'll be the very first. And by the way, we have absolutely no terrorism risk because there's been no meaningful terror attack that I can remember in my lifetime. I mean, this is like, who's controlling these elections? Deb, Canadian Debbie really wants me to play the following sound bite for you, so I will. Independent journalist Nick Shirley again here, SOT9B. Who are you voting for for mayor?

[Sid Rosenberg]

I like Cuomo, but I think Mondani.

[Carl Cannon]

Might be pulling the lead a little bit with me.

[Megyn Kelly]

What's your favorite, favorite example of socialism that's worked?

[Carl Cannon]

I don't have a big example of it, of socialism.

[Megyn Kelly]

Like between Venezuela, Cuba, Soviet Union. What's your favorite one?

[Andrew Walworth]

Man, you put me on the spot.

[Carl Cannon]

I'm going to have to go Cuba.

[Megyn Kelly]

You think Mandami is the future of the Democratic Party?

[Tom Bevin]

I mean, I hope so.

[Megyn Kelly]

Oh, God, that's, that's scary.

[Carl Cannon]

Yeah, it's Megan.

[Tom Bevin]

That's the quote of the year. I'm going to have to go with Cuba.

[Carl Cannon]

You know, Megan, you, you played that clip earlier about the, the student that was like, you know, had the ten dollar matcha in her hand and she's like, you know, I mean, I just saw a clip online of, of some young women who voted for Mamdani that were talking about like Sharia laws coming and they were celebrating that. I mean, it was like. And they weren't even Muslims. I don't even think they knew what that meant. I mean, it's.

[Megyn Kelly]

I hope you enjoy your genitals. Enjoy them while they're still intact.

[Carl Cannon]

I mean, it's kind of crazy. Meanwhile, did you see Alex Soros posted a picture of him with his arm around mom, Donnie, and saying, you know, so proud to be a New Yorker. And I, you know, isn't he supposed to be fighting the oligarchy and the billionaires? Isn't aren't they the enemy?

[Megyn Kelly]

How's that going?

[Carl Cannon]

Yeah, how's that going? Well, I guess obviously we've learned only some billionaires are evil and other billionaires are great. But it just goes to the point. This guy is, he went to private school. He's, he's, he's from an elite family. He is totally sort of role playing here and disconnected from, you know, the, the hardships that New Yorkers are facing on an everyday basis.

[Andrew Walworth]

Well, he's the van.

[Megyn Kelly]

Like I said, he lost the working class. The working class voted for Cuomo. It was all of the elite high earners, reasonably high and the college educated crew. We know what college does to you that voted for Mamdami. Go ahead, Andrew.

[Andrew Walworth]

I'm just saying this is textbook from the socialist playbook. I mean, here's the thing. The problem with the working class and why they don't embrace socialism is because they don't, they're not bright enough to do it. That's fundamental to the sort of socialist view of things. And so what you need are people like Mondami who are the vanguard of the proletariat. These are the people like Lenin who were educated enough to understand the theories behind Marx, which are completely impossible to understand because they make no sense, but they understand that enough. And they will lead the revolution. And the revolution will be led not by the workers, but by the vanguard of the workers. And that's what Mandami is here to do. Like I say, this is all, this is sort of just the way socialism worked again and again and again, and people somehow forget about it. And it's one of the wonders of the modern world, how socialism could have failed everywhere. And it still has this sort of hold on people's imagination.

[Carl Cannon]

It hasn't been tried properly. Andy, come on.

[Megyn Kelly]

We have Mamdani on the record saying he doesn't think there should be billionaires and that he does view the ultimate goal as, quote, seizing the means of production. What could be more Marxist? He actually wants to seize the means of production. Okay, first of all, that's not going to happen, right? That's his utopia. But it's not gonna happen in the United States of America. I do wanna get back to the. There's no problem too big or too small for government to get involved. What a contrast from the Gipper, the great communicator Ronald Reagan. We teed it up.

[Sid Rosenberg]

I think you all know that I've.

[Tom Bevin]

Always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah, that seems a lot closer to what's real. But we have to keep learning these lessons over and over and over again. I do want to play you something, though. I don't want to be. It's very easy to bash mom Donnie very. But we should pay some attention to like what exactly caused people to vote for him beyond like his promises of free things. Like there is something happening to young people in particular, but under 44 in New York, which isn't that young, that made them flock to this guy, that made an extra million people get off the couch and go vote for him. I mean, that's incredible. For mayoral race. And I want to play a soundbite. This is Charlie Kirk on Tucker Carlson's show right after Mamdani won the Democrat nomination. Listen here.

[Carl Cannon]

It's a coming attraction of what is coming next. Who's Mamdani? Zoran Mamdani, the Muslim communist that is running for mayor in New York City, who obviously there's a whole rabbit hole we can go down there. He just looks kind of be like central casting and his ideas are terrible. He wants the city to run the grocery stores, all that. But I think everyone's kind of, not everyone, but most people are missing the point of really what this is. This is yet another distress signal by young people to say, hey, if you're not going to fix our life economically, we're going to get very radical politically. Now let's take a step back. President Trump won the youth vote in many states across the country, in many battleground states. One of the reasons he was able to win younger voters and younger men, especially in big numbers, is that they were trying to get their leaders attention. They said, hey, this guy Donald Trump, he is pledging to go fix our economic anxiety. He is loud. He is going to get your attention. Donald Trump was a distress signal by a lot of young people, especially young men that were stuck in a, in a credit centric renter economy.

[Megyn Kelly]

I miss him so much. But Tom, he's raising really good points there about they're not all, they're not all crazy leftists. Like some are actually just suffering, not just in New York, but in other big cities and want to try something completely different because they just feel the system has utterly failed them.

[Carl Cannon]

I think that's exactly right. And that's the genius of Mamdani's campaign is, you know, he has all these, he has all these programs which are pie in the sky. Obviously, we know we're not, but, but the central theme around which it was built was affordability. And that is, that is a powerful word that everybody can understand. It doesn't take, you know, it doesn't take a lot to digest that everybody understands whether you're Republican, Democrat, independent, black, white, doesn't matter. Can I afford this? Can I not afford this? And that's why it hit home, particularly I think, with younger folks and why Democrats. That's what Spamberger, Spamberger was talking about in Virginia, Cheryl was talking about that in New Jersey. And Republicans should be talking about affordability as well, because it is something, it is a huge concern for, for everybody in an economy where inflation has taken a huge bite out of people's paychecks and their purchasing power, from everything from health care to education to what they get at the grocery store. And that's why he's been so successful. And you know, Donald Trump was able to tap into that on sort of the, the populist right. And you know, Mamdani is sort of version of, I would say, Bernie Sanders, sort of 2.0. He's, he's done a good job of tapping into that on the left. And as Charlie Kirk rightly pointed out, that's not something to just be dismissed or waved away. And that's what I go back to my point earlier. I think Republicans need to be clear eyed about what happened on Tuesday and figure out how to, how to reconnect with those voters and solve those problems. Otherwise, you know, they could be headed for a not so great midterms.

[Megyn Kelly]

You've got a situation where Trump's main tool to get the inflation that he inherited, to be fair to Trump down, is his tariff policy. And he said from the beginning, it's going to take me a while, so I'm going to need you to be a little patient. Well, they're not. That's not really a virtue among the American electorate and certainly not among like moderates in the middle who aren't die hard maga. They're not, they want their grocery bills to go down like asap, and they'll sign on to the, the person who's making the promise most believably and most boldly. And in this case, that was the Democrats. Just today, his tariff case is going up to the Supreme Court to see Whether he actually has the power. Charles C.W. cook at National Review has been arguing from the beginning, like the tariffs or hate the tariffs. Trump doesn't have the ability to do this. He needed congressional approval, and a lower court has so held. So we'll see what this is. The Supreme Court upholds. And that's why Trump keeps saying at every speech, I use the tariffs for foreign policy. This is how I got peace in the Middle East. This is how I'm going to negotiate other peace deals in Ukraine and elsewhere, like to put pressure on these countries to come to reason. And that's clearly a ploy to me. It's very clear. Yes, it's true. But he's also using it to try to get in the ear of the Supreme Court to try to say, of course it's within my power. I'm the commander in chief. So we'll see how that goes. It's a big, big case. But this strategy, Carl, of like, just be patient, that only works with the party faithful. Everybody else is having trouble paying their bills and living paycheck to paycheck, and they're going to blame whoever's in power.

[Tom Bevin]

Yeah, I agree with you, Megan. We, in this interview that Andy and Tom and Phil Wegman did with Speaker Johnson, he was asked, you know, he's a constitutional lawyer and he was asked about the tariffs, but he did not give a constitutional answer. He gave a political answer. He said, he said what you pointed out, Megan. He said, you know, he's the commander chief. We won't want to cripple him. He ran on this. He said he was going to do it. He ran on it. He won. Those are interesting arguments. And, and then he even mentioned Obamacare and how John Roberts came up with this imaginative way to uphold that. He said, you know, just, just let this be. You know, let, let it be. But Obamacare was different. That was a law passed by Congress, signed by the president. This is the president taking a power that belongs to Congress. And the ranking member of Congress in the House is saying, let's let him have it. It was a little disjointed in argument. And as I was listening to him, I thought, I'm not sure the Supreme Court's going to buy this in terms of what you said, Megan, about, about these young people. You know, I interviewed John Della Volpe, who's a pollster at Harvard. He's liberal Democrat, really good guy. I interviewed Spencer Kimball, more conservative pollster, and Emerson College, really good guy. And they both said what you and Tom have been saying about young people is that they feel they have, that the system has failed them. And I get that to a point. What I don't get, though, is why, you know, socialism is. They think that's the answer. You don't have to. Andy gave a good primer on, you know, you don't, on how it's always failed. But you don't have to go back to the Bolshevik resolution. Socialism is being practiced right now in Venezuela and it has utterly wrecked the country. And the disconnect to me is why these young voters don't get that and why. And I, and maybe, that's, maybe that's the case Republicans should make. But it's not working right now. It's failing Venezuelans to the point where Joe Biden, the Biden administration gave 500,000 visas to Venezuelans to come here and work. And they come here and work. And then the Democrats immediately start in on them and say, you got to vote Democrat because we need socialism. It, it's, it's circular, it doesn't make sense. And I don't see how it works in the long run to give these young voters what they think they need.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah, when we were in Sweden, we, we asked some of our, you know, Swedish hosts and friends because they, they're very proud of the fact that it's like, free. We have maternity leave for a year and you have free education and some free childcare and free, free, free, free, free. And, you know, oh, this so wonderful here. And there are some things that we could take from it. Like, I remember they were very good on vocational training for young people. That is something that we should do more of, you know, helping kids who don't want to go to useless colleges to be indoctrinated into left wing ideology learn a real skill, like whether it's car mechanics. This young gal was doing hair and she learned it in high school, like maybe a year post high school. But it was paid for by the state. Those kinds of things do tend to have a return on investment. But then we asked, what, what's your tax rate? Like what? And this is not like some rich person. There are no rich people for that, for the most part. What's your tax rate? And she said, it's over 70%. And if you look it up online, they'll say, oh, the highest tax rate is like something like 58. But they, of course there's that and then there's a bunch of local taxes that are thrown on there. So they're most people over there who are actually earning are paying over 70% of their pay to the government. I mean, like that. That kills all incentive. That is the official death of the American dream if we adopt a system like that here. We did try it at one point. It failed. Go ahead, Andy.

[Andrew Walworth]

So I was just gonna say here's the thing about socialism that just say this. We tend to talk about it as an economic system, and we talk about how it doesn't work economically. And I do the same. But we're missing about half the story. And I think that Charlie Kirk bite was sort of right on it, which is that socialism. Well, there's a great book Josh Moravchek wrote called Heaven on Earth, and it's a survey of socialism, and that's part of it. What socialism promises you is a heaven on earth. Socialism is as much a religion as it is an economic system, maybe more so. And we. When we talk about socialism, you sort of have to understand that, because that's the only thing that I think can explain its appeal. It tells you that you can have a better life here on earth if you do X, Y and Z. And at the end of it, after the revolution, there is some sort of nirvana that comes and it all happens here on earth in the material world, in your lifetime. That's very powerful, especially to young people right now who are increasingly not going to church. Pew calls them the nones. Nones. They have no affiliate, no religious affiliation, even though they feel like they're spiritual people. So where is that spiritual? Where do they find that spiritual home? And if they aren't finding it in their churches, if they aren't finding it in their communities, socialism as an. As a sort of idea, it provides that. And that is why it's very interesting.

[Megyn Kelly]

Just as we see.

[Andrew Walworth]

That's what the west has always been up against when it runs into socialism.

[Megyn Kelly]

Just as we see the beginnings of the death of wokeism, in comes socialism, another new religion they could try. Whereas, like, the answer to their problem is Christianity. And it's been there all along. Go back and give it a try. Okay, let's keep going. Because it's not just this crazy loon in New York. It's, you know, Virginia. And what happened in New Jersey, guys? What happened in New Jersey? I realized there was that one Atlas poll right before that showed him, like, it was pretty tight. It showed it within four, I think, Ciatarelli. Then there was a question about whether they had overweighted Republicans and independents in that poll. Sorry, I'm mixing up my races. That was in New York showing Cuomo closing in on. On Mondame. But Cittarelli did pretty well in closing the gap with Cheryl. And there was nothing inherently likable about Mikey Sheryl. She wasn't some special politician in her own right, but he was actually really. He wasn't a winsome Sears. I don't mean to pile on winsome, but she wasn't. I mean, let's face it, that debate. Abigail Epigail. Abigail, it was weird, and I said it at the time. He didn't have any of those problems. So what happened in New Jersey?

[Carl Cannon]

Well, I can speak to the polls. I mean, we had about, I think, eight or nine polls in our Real Clear Politics average, and there were only two. The Fox News poll in Quinnipiac that showed Cheryl with a seven point lead. Both of them did. Every other poll was 4 points or less. So the preponderance of the polls, I think our average was about 3.3%. Which, again, was right where Cittarelli finished his race last time around, which is why I think people thought that he had a chance to score an upset there. At least that was the conventional wisdom. But obviously the polls missed this huge turnout that took place. And if you look at the exit polls, 52% of the electorate were women, and they voted for Mikey Sheryl over Cittarelli by 24% or 24 points. So that was part of it. Ironically, the gender gap was even bigger in Virginia. Spamberger beat Winsome Sears by 30 points among women, again, 52% of the electorate. And so I think it was just a. The polls did not pick up what happened in, in, in New Jersey. But can I just say also about Virginia, because that race, I mean, obviously we have Jay Jones and what happened there, seven point win. 46% of people thought it was disqualifying. 53% think what he did was either, you know, was concerning, but not disqualifying, or the 10% of people who said it wasn't a concern at all, which is kind of shocking. Winsome Sears won white voters. For all the talk about white voters being racist, she won white voters. And we had all these examples of these white liberals in Virginia that were. The dude who lost his job was calling, you know, telling her to go back to Haiti, and she was a traitor. And then there was the. The older white woman who was like, you know, made the comparison to, like, water fountains and, you know, the trans.

[Megyn Kelly]

Can't use. Yeah, yeah, you can't use our fountains.

[Carl Cannon]

Lord, I mean, what a nasty piece of work. Some of these Liberals in Virginia were. And, and by the way, 92% of black voters in Virginia voted against the black candidate. So it really does show that, you know, partisanship is the drug. It's, it's, it's rhd.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yeah, that, that reminds me. Okay, so Van Jones said something last night that I did think was interesting. I marked it when I heard it. Here it is. It's SOT 19. Tell me if you agree with this, Tom. Listen.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Buyer'S remorse from independence. Independence gave Donald Trump a shot. Buyers remorse. The Latin community gave him a shot. You see buyers remorse. Black men gave Trump a shot. They've come back home. Buyers remorse.

[Andrew Walworth]

Why?

[Sid Rosenberg]

Because people are sick of the status quo. That's why they voted for Trump the first time. That's why they voted him out the second time. That's why they voted back in. People want change. And Donald Trump said he was going to do something about grocery prices. He's done everything but he's putting in gold toilets in the White House. He's tearing up, he's galvan around the world and you're seeing buyers remorse.

[Megyn Kelly]

What do you make of that, Tom?

[Carl Cannon]

I think there's something to that for sure. I mean, independents did go for the Democrats in both states and he's right. I mean you certainly, you saw the Hispanic vote and Hispanic vote and the black vote both reverted to sort of pre Trump, you know, means, in terms of their, their support. The other thing that was interesting too, and this goes to, you know, it being sort of a change election. We, we talked a lot about last time around the double haters. Remember the double haters, the people who, who did not like either one of the candidate. Well, they had, the, the exit polls showed that in 8%, 8% of the electorate in Virginia and New Jersey were people who did, who had, did not have favorable opinions of either party. Okay. In both cases, they voted for the Democrat. 77% in New Jersey and 81% in, in Virginia or vice versa. I mean, it was overwhelming. So it was, there was, I think there was a sense of buyer's remorse. I think there was a sense of, you know, we want change. And I do think that there was a sense that, you know, Donald Trump did say he was going to solve these problems and, and he was off overseas and, and he was not, I think, mining the store at home to, and you, and you see this in his approval ratings when you look at, you know, when he took office. He was. The economy and inflation were two of his strongest issues. And pretty darn quickly he went underwater on those issues, and now he's very underwater. So the public has been focused on that while he's been focused on other things. And I think that's one of the reasons they took it out on the Republican Party last night.

[Megyn Kelly]

What about that? I saw a lot of that online that he's been overseas and he's not focused on bread and butter issues at home. Now Trump's been overseas trying to settle wars and trying to renegotiate trade deals as he tries to move us from a free trade to a fair trade approach. And so, you know, there's a reason for it. But I see the reason, Carl, that people are questioning whether that was smart. Like whether the average voter in Virginia or New Jersey or New York or Georgia is feeling like, where is he? Because my grocery still bills are still sky high and he's in Vietnam.

[Tom Bevin]

Yeah, I, you know, I, I wonder if that it's a piece of a larger picture with President Trump that Donald Trump's reelected. And some, a lot of these things he's done encourage prosecutions of people who offended him in his first term and went after him in his first term. This, this White House tearing down the east wing and, you know, doing things that seem self indulgent, like he's in it for him. And I, I think among independent voters, this, there's some disillusionment with that. And he didn't need to do any of these things. Now we should sort of stipulate right now the country's ungovernable. And I don't know any president could come in there and be very highly successful. But, Megan, do you remember when, when Biden, Joe Biden ran for president, he said, he must have said this 50 times. If I'm elected president, I will work as hard for the people who didn't vote for me as the people who did. And Kamala Harris actually used that line in her speech in Chicago in the convention. But Joe Biden didn't govern that way. And so he just came across as cynical. But, but Donald Trump didn't even give it lip service. Donald Trump has not tried. He's not been worried about Democrats at all. He's not been worried about. And he'll say, well, that's a blue state, or, you know, that, that, those, those people didn't vote for me. This is unique in, we've never had a president that doesn't even make an attempt to be a uniter. It's hard enough to do, but if you're not even trying to do it, I think a lot of these independent voters can this. Well, Trump's in it for himself or he's in it for maga. He's not really in it for me. So I think this. I think this was a problem for Republicans last night.

[Megyn Kelly]

It's, like, so frustrating to hear you say that, because I think you're probably right. And yet I also know how Trump and Cor Maga are feeling, which is the reason we have to play a Charlie Kirk soundbite instead of hear from Charlie Kirk is they put a bullet in his neck. So fuck them. I think that's how a lot of us on the right are feeling. I don't care. I really don't care what blue voters in New Jersey want. I want a sane country, and I want a fighter in the White House who will steamroll right over them if they try to pull this shit. And yet their brand of violent politics seems to be growing, or a comfort with it seems to be growing because we have a top law enforcement official in the Commonwealth of Virginia, which is a great state, who really seems committed to the idea that Republicans and their children must die in order for policies to change. Right. So it's like I've been talking to my kids about this election. You know, we've been talking more about politics as they get a little older. I don't even know how to explain to them that Jay Jones won. You know, it's like they know that this guy advocated for Republican children to be shot just because they're the children of Republicans. Like, they don't understand how a state would put that guy in office.

[Tom Bevin]

Well, I live there, and I don't understand it either. He, you know, showed me that he was unfit for office, but he won, and he won comfortably.

[Andrew Walworth]

But, you know, we should remember that Trump's approval rating, Tom, I think this is right, is low and maybe at the lowest of his president, his second presidency right now. But it's still above where Obama was at this point. I mean, isn't that correct? I mean, he's, he's, he's unpopular, but only compared to where his popularity has been for the, you know, since he took office. So that's a good news, bad news story, because you saw what happened to Obama in, when, you know, in his midterms, Trump may fare no better, but, you know, there's a lot of ruin in the country and, you know, we'll see what happens here.

[Carl Cannon]

But one of the other, one of the other data points, Megan, that came out of the exit polls, if you believe these exit polls is that a majority in both states thought that Trump's immigration deportation system had gone too far. And those folks voted overwhelmingly for, for the Democrats. And I think there has been, you know, enough negative publicity surrounding some of that stuff that Democrats have managed to, to leverage that issue against Republicans as well.

[Megyn Kelly]

And by the way, down in Virginia. That's.

[Carl Cannon]

That's right.

[Megyn Kelly]

And they're blaming Republicans, which is not right. But they are right.

[Carl Cannon]

Yeah. And there was also an exit poll question on, on trans rights. And do you think they've gone too far or not far enough? And. Or just about right. And about 45% in Virginia and about 45% of folks who I assume are all Democrats said that they haven't gone far enough or they're just right. But a majority said that, that they've gone too far. But 52% said too far.

[Megyn Kelly]

But still some portion of those 52% voted for Spamberger, who, who will bring them even farther potentially, or certainly leave the, you know, try to revert Youngkin's reforms. Can I ask you a quick question about Youngkin? Steve Bannon's going off on Youngkin today. He's very unhappy with him. And he and some others have said this is officially the death knell to his presidential hopes because he's leaving after four years as the Virginia governor. And obviously there wasn't much of a baton to pass to win some. And he also said, and this may or may not be true, I didn't follow it. But he said that he kind of pulled what the Democrat Party did with Kamala with respect to Winsome, where he didn't really encourage an open primary and just kind of like handed it to her, even though there were obvious questions about whether she was a viable candidate for the top job in Virginia. I think most of us are thinking it's going to be JD Or Marco anyway, like a member of the Trump administration who will be. Be the Republican standard bearer. But Youngkin was on the short list, you know, in those we talked about last time. So what do you make of Steve Bannon's theory that this is. He's done?

[Andrew Walworth]

I don't buy it. First of all, no one will remember this in two years. And that's crazy. I mean, it's just. It just doesn't make any sense. We are, because we live in this sort of, you know, world where we're get on the radio, we talk about this stuff. We think everyone cares about it so much. I mean, in a week, we won't be talking about These elections, we'll be talking about something else, and Youngkin will rise or fall. I think the bigger question for Youngkin, if you will, is just, you know, if he's out of office for two years, what's his platform? How does he keep in front of the American people? How, you know, that's what he's trying to do. I think it's very hard now.

[Carl Cannon]

He'll start a podcast like everybody else.

[Megyn Kelly]

I don't think he's made for the podcast world, but I do think he's a good man. I've told this story before, but just when we both appeared at Virginia Tech for Charlie, a venue I had agreed to go to with Charlie and then obviously couldn't, he showed up and he was so sweet, you guys. He brought all of his full security that he gets as the Virginia governor. And it was, you know, this is two weeks after Charlie was killed. And when he left, he left early because he was, he just did sort of like the opening remarks. He left all of his security for me and for the people there, which is like so sweet. He didn't have to do that. Like, it, it arguably endangered himself. And I mean, that's a good man. I think Gun Youngin is a good man. I don't know whether he's got a future in a party that's dominated by maga, you know, more, more MAGA style politics, but I'll vouch for him as a, as a good man any day.

[Carl Cannon]

I was gonna say, I think his, his bigger problem isn't, isn't, you know, whether he did or didn't, you know, take responsibility or this, this thing is his fault or not. Win some Sears. It's just whether he's a right fit for, for the sort of national populist movement, the MAGA movement. He seems a little more genteel, a little bit more of a country club Republican, sort of from the pre Trump era, if you will. And, and all of those folks, you know, to me there's a dividing line when Trump won. There's pre Trump and there's post Trump and, and all the folks who are running pre Trump, Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, like, those guys are done, like if, if they tried to run again today, they would go nowhere. And it's, it's all of the. Marco Rubio is the only one who was able to cross over and become part of the sort of MAGA movement and has been very successful at it, which gives you an idea of just how talented he is politically. But everybody else moving forward, it's it's, it's a different party and it requires a different leader. And it's, it's JD and it's Marco and it's, it's Byron Donalds and it's these other folks who really represent, I think, the MAGA base. And that to me, when I look at Glenn Yenkin, that's, that's not him.

[Megyn Kelly]

Well, and I will, I'll give you another, I'll give you a dark horse for your list. Don Jr. I, when I interviewed him two weeks ago, he sounded closer to saying he might throw his hat in the ring than I've ever heard before. Now, he's a big J.D. vance fan, so I, I don't see him challenging J.D. vance, but I think we're within two election cycles of seeing Donald Trump Jr. S name on the ballot. Carl, you were going to make a.

[Tom Bevin]

Point, I was just going to say about Glenn Youngkin. I, I've been at dinner, I don't know him well. I've been at a dinner with him once, Megan, and it seems to me that the animating feature of him as a public person is his deep he's just a very devout Christian. And that exactly seems to I, you know, he, I'm not saying Tom's wrong. He doesn't fit the mega mole, but he's not just a country Republican. I mean, he's an evangelical Christian who takes his faith very deeply. And I think people who meet him are struck by his authenticity and his sincerity and like him and want to succeed. I don't know that he ever figured as a presidential candidate, but I don't think, I think there's room for him in any configuration of the Republican Party.

[Megyn Kelly]

Yes, there should be. He, if not on the top job, he should definitely be in an administration. I'll tell you this. We sat outside of that Virginia Tech hall, you know, auditorium that we were going to go speak inside of, and everybody was a little nervous. I mean, truly, it was like two weeks after Charlie was killed. This is a turning point event. You know, there were nerves for sure. And he came and he asked me and my staff, he included my staff, which is always I always love people who include my staff. We all held hands and he and his staff, too. And we said a prayer. He led it, and it was really beautiful, very, very well articulated. You know, I pray, but I pray silently. And the only time I play I pray out loud is either in church or at grace. And so I think you have to practice being able to pray like that. And boy, he's clearly practiced. And I'm telling you, it was like the angels descended and we all, like our shoulders came down, the tension released, and he shored us all up to be able to go out there and do what we knew we needed to do that night for Charlie. So I will always have a soft spot in my heart for Glenn Youngkin. All right, pause. See, I'm not all F bombs. As we've gone through the show, I've calmed down and we have that effect. That's what I love about you. All right, stand by. Going to take a quick break and we'll be back with the guys from rcp. The tax extension deadline may have passed, but for millions of Americans, the real trouble is just beginning. If you miss the October 15th deadline or owe back taxes, the IRS is ramping up enforcement. Every day you wait only makes things worse. And here's the harsh reality. The IRS can charge a penalty of 5% per month, up to 25% of your total tax bill just for not filing. That's in addition to what you already owe. The good news, There is still time for Tax Network USA to help self employed or a business owner. Even if your books are a mess, they've got you covered with tools like property seizures, bank levies and wage garnishment. The IRS is applying pressure at many levels. But it's not too late for you to regain control. Your consultation is 100% free. In one short call, the experts at Tax Network USA can determine how much you can save. Call 1-800-958-1000 or visit tnusa.com Megan Let Tax Network USA help before the IRS makes the next move.

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[Megyn Kelly]

The guys from RealClearPolitics are back with me now. If you listen to the Megyn Kelly channel, which is now on the Sirius XM dial at channel 111, you can hear them every weekday morning right before the Megyn Kelly show. That is a great dose of goodness. So you've got RCP into MK and then after this show, we announced this a couple days ago yesterday, on Tuesday, whatever it was, you're going to hear Emily Jashinsky with an after party show right here. Not her show after party, but like she'll be digesting what she witnessed and taking phone calls from all of you. And I'll be swinging by. Maybe we'll get the guys from RCP to swing by, take some calls. It's a party over here on Sirius xm. Okay. To quote the great Stephen L. Miller, who goes by Red Steez on X, everyone knows he's my favorite Twitter account. I regret to inform you we've disappointed Michelle Obama again. The Obamas in general, he said it the other day cuz Michelle Obama's on this book tour and she continues to complain. I mean you would think this woman had just a horrible life, a really rough time here in the United States of America to listen to her instead of she got into Princeton on affirmative action, she got a job at a Chicago law firm, she married the future President of the United States, she became first lady, she had four Vogue magazine covers she was uniformly beloved.

[Carl Cannon]

She.

[Megyn Kelly]

She named her book Beloved. She had like, the highest approval ratings of anybody for many, many years. They only started to go down once she started to talk more and introduce us to who she is. So here she is. She's promoting this fashion book that she's doing, which is such a joke. This is like me doing a book on basketball. Like, Michelle Obama is not a fashion icon no matter what Anna Wintour tried to tell us. That's obvious. No one's inspired by her fashion at all. She knows nothing about fashion, same as I know nothing about sports. Okay. That some of us just need to admit our weaknesses, but we have to go along with this. She's out there lecturing us on wokeness and America and fashion. Okay. And here's the latest offering as she sits down with Stephen Colbert. Take a listen to Sat 33. Knew very quickly that I had to control every aspect of how I showed up in the world. It was a race to let the country learn me from me before they learned this other crazy woman that they would. What we're talking about the angry, bitter black woman that was a terrorist and a danger to her country and didn't love her country. And how I showed up in the world played a huge role in just reminding people that we're normal people. Yes, we're black, but we bleed red and we love red, white and blue. Oh, my God. Everyone knows that. You don't have to keep reminding us that you're black, just like your friend Karine Jean Pierre. You don't have to work it into every single conversation and also raise it as a way of saying the country's racist. We're normal even though we're black. Weird white people who are racists and hate us because of our skin color. That's what she's saying. She said the other day they didn't get the same grace other First Families got because of skin color. I'm sick of it. Amazingly, Andrew Walworth seems to want to take this one. Go ahead, Andy.

[Andrew Walworth]

I don't know why I'm the Michelle Obama whisper around here. Last time we were on, we talked about her as well.

[Megyn Kelly]

You know, hey, if I can ask Victor Davis Hansen about Onlyfans, I can ask you about Michelle Obama.

[Andrew Walworth]

You certainly may. You certainly may. And as a black woman of color myself, I will tell you. No. I think it's always amazing the sort of language she uses to this sort of like how I decided to show myself to the world or something. This sort of weird sort of construct. I don't know where that comes from. It's kind of academic. It's kind of overly therapeutic. Spicy. Right. And it's very off putting, I think. I do agree. I think, and her relationship with her husband is kind of fascinating at this point. And she's put it out there so many times now she kind of hates him and is stuck with him. And, you know, and yet you saw him out there campaigning. There was Obama. You know, he's the one guy that they trot out. They've still got, who's got some juice and, you know, probably helped turn out some votes.

[Megyn Kelly]

They didn't trot her out. And Virginia, they did not trot out Michelle. And I'm telling you that nobody's listening to this podcast. Maybe there's some hate watching or like some. Maureen Callahan calls it rubbernecking, like as a result of Maureen and yours truly covering Meghan Markle. I think her Netflix show got some rubbernecking views and that's what's happening with Michelle Obama. But honestly, like the fact I had to show them, like the unfair people who suggested I didn't love America. Tom, that comes from her saying on camera that when her husband was nominated was the first time in her adult life that she was ever proud of her country. Not some right wing made up thing. She said it and people recoiled.

[Carl Cannon]

Yeah, I was just going to say, I mean, that, that that was how a lot of people. And that got a lot of publicity, as it probably should have, because that's not how you could say, well, she misspoke. But it's like, well, that's not how people normally phrase things. It's the first time in my adult life that I'm proud of my country. I mean, that's a, a pretty coherent thought. And the other part about her husband, you know, she and her husband sat in the pews and listened to Jeremiah Wright for years. He married them, talked about America, you know, chickens coming home to roost and all of that.

[Megyn Kelly]

God D America.

[Carl Cannon]

Yeah, absolutely. So this stuff didn't just sort of materialize out of nowhere. This is not some fiction that was made up. And she continues to. I mean, it's, you know, it's like a glass half full or glass half empty. I think a lot of people look at Michelle Obama and think, man, your glass is half full. I mean, you've lived this amazing life. You went from, you listed all the things. Now she went from literally no one to one of the most admired people in the world who's like a multimillionaire. With homes in Hawaii and Kalorama and all these places, Martha's Vineyard. She's. They. They've lived in an amazingly charmed life because of the American people, because people voted her husband into office. And she looks at her life and sees the glass half empty and says, man, you know, I've gotten what I've gotten despite. Because of America and its flaws and racism and all these things. And I was so criticized. I mean, she just looks at it through a completely different lens that I think there's just not a ton of. We always tell our kids, you know, like, be grateful. Be grateful every day for everything that you have, because there's so many people out there who have so much less than you, who have so much more tragedy in their lives, who have so much more struggles. You should always approach everything that happens to you in your life with. With a sense of gratefulness. And she just doesn't have it.

[Megyn Kelly]

No, we do the same. We go around our dinner table all the time and say. Say three things you're grateful for. And, you know, it's easy. It's easy. She's just not built that way. Gotta end on this one. Speaking of the obsessive focus on identity, you guys have seen it. We've seen it. Karine Jean Pierre is at it again. And now she's defending the fact that she mentions I'm a black queer woman at every stop on her book tour. She's mad that people are questioning it. Watch this. Here she is on Higher Learning with Rachel Lindsay. It pisses me off that people who have not walked in my shoes, who have no idea who really I am as a person, get to tell me how I get to identify myself, Jake. So it's like, I was like, you can't tell me how I get to identify myself. You can't tell me how I get to call myself. Like, screw you. Like, who? Like you. That's not okay. Like, that is not okay. You have no right to tell anybody how they should identify themselves and how they see themselves in the world. Like, you have not walked through my battles. You have not walked through my life. You don't even know my personal story. So that's how I really. I just. That just boils me up. First of all, she's a communications expert. Allegedly, how I get to call myself. That's. That is not a phrase. That is not appropriate English. But second of all, the. No one's criticizing. No one's telling her how she has to identify herself, just that she should stop doing it. Incessantly it's not like, okay, I get that you're black. If asked what your race is, you should say black. But if asked what your, you know, sexual orientation is, you should say you're a lesbian. I object to queer. It's weird. But, like, the issue is, she mentions it obsessively. Truly, Carl, have you ever sat in an interview ever in your life and said, my name's Carl Cannon and I am a white, straight male. I just want you to know my perspective as a white, straight male. And then you go, of Irish descent.

[Tom Bevin]

I think if you see me, you know, right away, I think you guys, guys are being hard on Michelle Obama, and I'll tell you why. So she has all these things that you described. Fame, fortune, many houses, acclaim, this charm, life. But there is one thing, and she's talked about it all that is outweighed by she doesn't like how her husband chooses food. And so it reminds me, in his great book, Is Sex Necessary? James Thurber describes this man who had this perfect woman. Beautiful, sexy, knew how to dress, came from money, all his friends loved her, his parents loved her. But he had to break up with her because there was one trait he couldn't forgive, and that is she would use the salutation howdy instead of hello, that's Michelle Obama.

[Megyn Kelly]

That's the least of the problems she's dealing with over there in Household Obama. Tune into that podcast and you'll hear all about them guys. A pleasure. Thank you.

[Carl Cannon]

Thanks, Megan.

[Tom Bevin]

Time.

[Megyn Kelly]

All right, and don't forget, folks, tomorrow it's Megyn Kelly live with Tucker Carlson. Gee, I wonder if there's anything for us to talk about. We'll see you then. Thanks for listening to the Megyn Kelly Show. No bs, no agenda, and no fear.

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