The 2024 election marked the fist time I have ever publicly shared who I am voting for. Earlier this year, I announced that I was voting for Donald Trump, and I have explained why in bits and pieces since. I have already laid out why I do not think you should vote for Kamala Harris (you can read that here).
To the Republicans, independents, and Democrats in this audience: I urge you to vote for Donald Trump.
The Abortion Issue
Donald Trump is not without his flaws. Everyone knows that. But the reason this election is even close between the two of them is twofold. There is Trump’s personality, yes. And there is the abortion issue.
We discussed abortion at length in Friday’s show (get caught up here), but I will reiterate that you should not vote for the presidency based on abortion politics. This is a states’ rights issue that cannot be solved by the federal government.
Let me sum it up for you this way: When Dobbs was decided in June of 2022, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were in the White House. The Democrats had full control of the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives. If Dobbs could be effectively overruled by federal legislation, why didn’t they do it? Don’t you think they would have done it if they could have? They didn’t because they knew, at some level, it would be struck down. They don’t have those powers.
They also knew they didn’t have the votes to get rid of the filibuster in the Senate. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) was there. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) was there. And neither appeared too keen on getting rid of minority rights in the Senate.
It didn’t happen, and it can’t happen. But here’s the thing: The president can do a lot outside of the abortion field. The president has a lot of responsibilities that will directly affect your life and should be taken into consideration at the ballot box.
Trump’s Personality
Before I get to that, I want to spend a minute on Trump’s personality. I know. I get it. He can be crass at times. He goes after his enemies with a particular flair. But he is strong in the best sense, too. He is strong in his language, and he is strong period. He has to be.
Who in modern day America has had more thrown at them than Donald Trump? He is facing a vile media that lies about him at every turn. They call him Hitler, a Nazi, a fascist, Goebbels. They smear his family.
There have been four criminal prosecutions and multiple civil suits that could cost him his business. Some of them are courtesy of the Biden-Harris Department of Justice, which they sent after their chief political rival and then have the nerve to look at all of you and say he is going to do that to us. The absolute gall.
There was the phony Russian collusion hoax that stole his first term thanks to a wild goose chase based on the Clinton campaign’s baseless lies. There were two impeachments and two assassination attempts, including one that killed a beloved supporter.
They call him Hitler on magazine covers and so-called mainstream news like it is a verifiable fact. They call him a fascist. They call him a sexual predator. They call him a corporate fraudster, a monster, and none of that gets called out as crass or too much. It is just Trump’s words in fighting back that are the problem, if you ask the media that is leading people to believe he is all these things.
How can we look at him and fairly say, ‘He doesn’t sound like all the others. I don’t like the way he sounds. He doesn’t sound like Mitt Romney’ when he is not treated like all the others? If he can sometimes come across as crass or cutting, it is truly because he has to be. He is constantly facing the most vicious of attacks possible. He is a New Yorker. He grew up in the cutthroat construction industry, which is bare knuckled. This is how he fights and how he wins. Yes, for himself and also for us.
Projecting Strength
Haven’t we had enough of weak American presidents? From the Barack Obama apology tour to the Joe Biden foreign policy fecklessness to Kamala Harris’s empty-headed words salads, we are projecting weakness to all of our adversaries. And weakness is provocative. Just ask Vladimir Putin.
We need someone strong to represent us and to fight for us, not someone who reads scripted lines and memorized sound bites and refuses to say anything other than “I’m from a middle class family” and “I eat no for breakfast.”
The same guy who says Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) is the “enemy from within” is the guy who had the guts to stand by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh when vicious leftists tried to ruin this honorable and decent man. The same guy who has the insult comic show up at the MSG rally is the guy who dismantled all of the DEI programs in the federal government, who restored due process rights for men on college campuses, who passed the anti-sex trafficking law, and who said, in one famous debate, “I really think we’ve gotten too politically correct in this country.”
He is really not into the word policing. Sometimes, it leads to a blow up for him. But I think, net-net, the country agrees with him.
He is the guy who pushed the leader of Montenegro out of the way when he was standing in front of the U.S. president. He is the guy who bombed Qasem Soleimani. He is the guy who threatened the Taliban leader and said he knew where he lived. He is the guy who told the generals, ‘I don’t want to hear from you anymore. Bring in the enlisted guys, so I can hear from them.’
He is strong. He is a leader. He is decisive. And he is not afraid. He is a patriot. He loves America – notwithstanding what they tell you. He is funny. He is entertaining. He wants us to laugh with him. He wants us to laugh at him. He doesn’t take himself too seriously. Who that did would put on that McDonald’s apron and serve the fries or do the garbage truck thing?
Law and Order
But he takes our safety very seriously. He will close the border. He will keep boys out of girls’ sports. That can be done with Title IX. He will be tough on crime. He can’t handle all of it because crime is generally handled at the local level. But he will rail against the local election of soft-on-crime DAs and make sure – at the federal level – that our law enforcement priorities are straight.
He may get to appoint another Supreme Court justice if someone retires, or, God forbid, dies. The courts have been the last vestige of fighting the leftist excess, from affirmative action in universities to forced speech among private citizens. All of this is un-American.
This Supreme Court has stood up time and time again for beloved, treasured American principles like non-discrimination and free speech rights. This Court has stricken a blow to the administrative state, cutting the power significantly of unelected bureaucrats, and so much more.
Who is on that high court and the lower federal courts matters a lot. There will be hundreds of appointments coming over the next four years, and it is the one area in which a Republican’s legacy can continue to reign even when he or she is out of office.
The Economy
The economy remains the number one or two issue for virtually all Americans. Trump’s economy was soaring. He did use tariffs that the left is now telling you will tax America to its eyeballs. If they were so bad, why did Biden leave them in place?
Trump cut taxes, yes, for the billionaires. But there was a far greater percentage cut for the working and the middle class. Joblessness was next to nothing. Inflation was next to nothing. The stock market saw all-time highs. Our 401Ks went up. Regulations were cut. Businesses thrived and hired and promoted and gave raises. The economy grew at some 2.5 percent greater than under Obama, who is now claiming he is to thank for Trump’s great numbers.
Trump grew manufacturing jobs by 400,000, a promise kept to the working class men and women forgotten by Obama and his cronies. Median household hold incomes grew and inequality diminished, according to The Wall Street Journal, which tracked it. And the poverty rate among black Americans fell below 20 percent for the first time since World War II. The ‘racist’ Trump made the unemployment rate for blacks go under 6 percent for the first time in 50 years.
‘Vote Right Now’
All of this is why I am going to support Donald Trump in Pittsburgh tonight and have supported him in this election with my vote.
What we have is a mountain of lies from these dishonest brokers in the media who go out there and try to claim that they are objective and non-partisan while spewing nonsense about her and him. There is very little fact checking, and there are very few honest brokers left. So the American populace goes to the voting booth tomorrow with one arm tied behind their back. They don’t actually know the truth.
If I could do anything to set the record straight on what we are actually looking at here, I am going to do it. I hope that you will vote tomorrow. If you were in one of the critical swing states, I hope you will make sure they are voting for Trump and then get them to the polls because this thing is tight. I do not believe that it is a runaway either way. Every person has to get out to vote right now.
Vote according to your conscience and your heart and understand this really is a before-and-after moment for America. The polls are tight. The election is tight. We don’t know how it is going to land, but we can still control it.
You can check out Megyn’s full analysis by tuning in to episode 934 on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you like to listen. And don’t forget that you can catch The Megyn Kelly Show live on SiriusXM’s Triumph (channel 111) weekdays from 12pm to 2pm ET.