The Megyn Kelly Show - Megyn Kelly Announces She's Speaking at Trump Rally, and Steve Bannon on What GOP Needs to Do For Trump To Win Tomorrow | Ep. 934

Episode Date: November 4, 2024

Megyn Kelly begins the show by announcing she'll be speaking tonight at the Trump rally, and explains her reasons why. Then she breaks down some wild new 2024 polls showing Trump crushing the swing states in one poll, him completely tied with Kamala Harris in another major poll, one Iowa poll showing Harris ahead of Trump, before discussing all the reasons Americans shouldn't vote for Kamala Harris, including the times she's changed her position or refuses to discuss past positions, what she can and can't do as president, her woke extremism, how unimpressive she is as a person, and more. Then she talks about why she believes everyone should vote for Trump, including the truth about his successes in the first term, how Trump behaves unlike other politicians but he's not treated like others also, how the media lies incessantly about Trump, and more. Then Steve Bannon, host of "Bannon's War Room," joins to discuss why prison was a gift and how he became convinced Trump would win while he was in prison, how black and Latino voters may not turn out in the numbers the Democrats need, how turnout is looking in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, a look back at the shock Trump victory in 2016, the outrageous ad from a progressive group supporting Harris, how low the Dems go and their brutal effectiveness, the lies from the left, whether Dems like Jamie Raskin will try to stop Trump from taking office if Trump wins, the group that has been brought together to help Trump win, and more.Bannon- https://linktr.ee/bannonwarroomMy Patriot Supply: https://PreparewithMegyn.comGet a 4-week trial, free postage, and a digital scale at https://www.stamps.com/mk. Thanks to Stamps.com for sponsoring the show!Cozy Earth: https://www.CozyEarth/MEGYN.com | code MEGYNFollow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/MegynKellyTwitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShowInstagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShowFacebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow 

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. Well, here we are, one day before the final voters head to the polls. And regardless of the outcome at this point, we can say one thing with certainty, complete certainty. There has never been and probably never will be a campaign quite like 2024. From one candidate surviving not one but two assassination attempts, to another being forced out in what looked very much like a coup, and Democrats installing his replacement without a single voter in their party weighing in. Take a deep breath because this week is going to be one hell of a ride.

It whatever happens, even if we know the result tomorrow night, it won't be over tomorrow night. Both sides will likely engage in lawfare. It will look very different. The Democrats, if Trump wins, will likely say he's illegitimate. He's an insurrectionist. He cannot be installed. They will push for faithless electors. And the Republicans will likely have legal challenges akin to what we saw in 2020. And we'll see whether they have the fodder for it. This is neither side, I predict, will go quietly into the night

unless it is an absolute blowout tonight. And even then, even then, especially on the Dem side, we are thrilled to have you along with us for what will be history in the making. Every day, the rhetoric gets more and more divisive. There's panic with some people willing to say or do anything if they think it will help their side win. There's so much uncertainty, which explains why so many people are preparing for what may come next. Imagine the possibilities if this descends into chaos. All of this could impact things that we take for granted. Right now, you can get ready with a three-month emergency food kit from My Patriot Supply. It comes with delicious foods like creamy stroganoff, honey wheat bread, and mushroom rice pilaf. The entire kit offers

over 2,000 calories every day. This food kit lasts up to 25 years. Who knows what our country will look like then? Go to preparewithmegan.com right now to order your three-month emergency food kit from My Patriot Supply. That's preparewithmegan.com. First though, I want to tell you about what's happening tonight and then a quick programming note for tomorrow. Tonight, we have something big happening and we are going to do something that we've never done before. Over the weekend, we got an invitation that we never really expected to get. And that was from Team Trump to show up tonight in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and for yours truly to make some remarks on the president's behalf or really more accurately, just to explain why I'm voting for him. And I said yes.

So tonight after the show, I'll be headed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I will appear with Trump at his last Pennsylvania rally before the vote. And I will proudly explain to that audience and beyond why I think it's absolutely essential that he win this election and that we not put Kamala Harris into the Oval Office as our president. I have all sorts of reasons that won't come as any sort of a surprise to the people listening to this show. And I'm going to go through some of that in more detail right now with you. Tonight, I'll only be speaking for a short time, but this is my show, so I have a longer time. And I really gave a lot of thought to this. And I just thought what the media has

done to Trump is so disgusting and dishonest and corrupt. They won't come out and tell you that they're Kamala Harris supporters, but they all are. They want to cloak themselves in the sanctimony of being objective journalists when we all know that they're as biased as they come, they just won't be honest about it. So this election, for the first time ever, I told the audience who I'm voting for. I've explained in bits and pieces why. Today, I'll explain more fully. And tonight, I'll say it to the people in Pennsylvania, the most, or at least one of the most critical swing States of all. And in particular, I hope women will listen to me, the women, young and old who are reportedly registering in big numbers right now,

especially on the Dem side. I believe because a lot of them believe the lies they're being told about abortion, the lies they're being told about what Kamala Harris is going to do for you on abortion. We went over this on our show on Friday. If you missed it, you should go back and listen because it was more full-throated. I'll touch on it just a bit today. So we'll let you know how that goes tomorrow and wish me luck tonight and wish Trump luck. More importantly, tomorrow night, we are going to be joined right here for live coverage of the election results as they come in. More than 20 of your favorites on the MK show will be joining us plus special guests live right here on Sirius XM Triumph Channel 111 and also at youtube.com

slash Megyn Kelly. We're live in both places beginning at 8 p.m. as we cover all the election news, the results with instant analysis and reaction. Okay, so I want to get to the other thing that happened over the weekend. Not only did I get that very interesting invitation, but we got the most bizarre submissions on electoral polling that I remember seeing since I got into covering politics. Bizarre. I mean, like diametrically opposed polling from very respected pollsters on the same states and the same groups in their final election polls. I mean, it's just, it's a lot to take in. So we're going to break it down for you. First, we're going to take on

that shocker of a poll out of Iowa. The Des Moines Register poll has long been considered the gold standard of polling. In June, when President Biden was still in the race, it found Trump running away with this race ahead by 18 points in that state, which is red. By September, with Vice President Kamala Harris atop the Democratic ticket, Trump's lead was just four points. Now that poll has Harris ahead by three. Okay, so we've gone from Trump ahead by four to Harris leading in a red state, if you believe this poll, by three. That's a 21-point swing from June. It's a seven-point swing from just a couple months ago, but it remains within the margin of error. Nevertheless, the poll sent shockwaves through political circles. For the record, Mr. Trump

won Iowa in both 16 and 20, and his team is saying this is complete BS. The Iowa pollster does not reveal her crosstabs. It's a lot of behind the black curtain stuff. And there is a belief that she has oversampled Democrats in the poll, though she's got a strong record. She's not always right, but she's got a strong record. Then another Iowa poll over the weekend from our friends over at Emerson, another gold standard, has Trump up in Iowa by 10 points. 10 points. So we'll have to wait and see who's right there. Moving on to the battleground

states that we've been talking about for months, we're going to discuss a pair of polls that are also considered among the best. Both came out over the weekend. First, the New York Times Sienna poll. According to that poll, there have been some major shifts in the race. Ms. Harris, they say, now up over Mr. Trump in Nevada, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and Georgia. But all are within the margin of error. All of them. In its prior polling, former President Trump had been leading in every one of those states except Wisconsin. This poll finds the two candidates are tied in Pennsylvania and in Michigan. In its prior polling, Ms. Harris had been up. And Mr. Trump is ahead in Arizona, according to this poll, only by four. This is the only state that is outside the margin of error. The New York Times

includes this giant asterisk in its reporting of its own poll. They say white Democrats, Democrats were much more likely to respond to their polling than white Republicans. Meaning this poll could be grossly underestimating Trump's support yet again. One would ask, why put it out with that kind of an asterisk? Why would you feel solid about the state of your poll with that kind of an asterisk? I mean, there's only like two main players in this race, and you're telling us that you may be severely underestimating Trump's support. Okay, so why, query, would you do that? Shifting gears over to the Atlas Intel polling, which was the most accurate pollster last time around, four years ago. In its latest polling

of those exact same battleground states we just went through, former President Trump is ahead in all seven. Can you believe this shit? Is your head ready to explode? Yes, Atlas has Trump up in Nevada, in North Carolina, in Wisconsin, in Georgia, in Pennsylvania, in Michigan, and in Arizona. The race is close in all of those states except Nevada and Arizona, where Atlas says he's up by six. All of this is to say polls are polls. There have been dramatic swings. There will be a lot of hand-rigging today and tomorrow. The only thing you can do about it is vote if you haven't already and go to sleep tonight knowing no one knows anything about anything. No one knows anything about anything on these polls. Do not believe the polls. Just vote. Okay. Just vote and stop worrying about these horse race

numbers, which at this point have very low credibility. And when you vote, I urge you to vote for Donald Trump. I urge you to vote for Donald Trump. I know I have a lot of independents who listen to this show. I have a lot of Republicans too. And I have some Democrats as well, because I hear from you, hear from you all the time in the mail. We see it in the numbers. And I'm begging those of you who are still thinking about voting for Kamala Harris to reconsider. I'm going to start with why you should not vote for her.

What is Kamala Harris going to do as president? We have no idea because she hasn't told us. She's used a lot of empty rhetoric to hide who she really is, which is the most radical leftist senator in the U.S. Senate prior to ascending to the vice presidency. She has disavowed few, if any, of her almost Marxist or actual Marxist positions. A few years ago, when she was running for president in 2019, she said she wanted to ban fracking. Now she says she won't. A few years ago, she wanted to take away your private health insurance and put us all on the government dole. Now she says she doesn't.

A few years ago, she said she wanted to ban gas-powered cars. Now she says she doesn't, though she and her boss have got that in the works already for the mid 2030s. Positions she is still on record to this moment as holding like currently include taxpayer funded sex change operations for illegal immigrants and prisoners. A ban on some portion of our red meat offerings. A ban on offshore drilling. Potentially, she's tried to walk that back, though without explanation. She wants those in the fossil fuel industry to transition out to something else. She wants to eliminate the filibuster to pass the

radical green new deal. She wants to eliminate the filibuster to pass an abortion rights bill. Eliminating the filibuster changes the U.S. Senate forevermore. Let me just say, let me just say something, okay, about the abortion. Okay, we talked about it on Friday, but I need you to understand this to my pro-choice friends who think she's going to pass a national abortion rights bill, which she is not. She cannot. She is not. I explained it on Friday, but she's not, she can't. Let me explain to you the only way that she could possibly do that. The only possible way the Democrats are about to lose control of the Senate in all likelihood, but let's just say they hold on by, you know, a vote, a Senator or two to the majority. The only way they can get rid of the filibuster is to say to vote, we're getting rid of the filibuster. And then to change the

standard for a vote in the Senate to just 51 votes right now, you can't get a vote on any legislation unless you have 60 and they, neither side ever has 60. And that ensures minority rights in the Senate, which may be annoying when you're in the majority, but you love when your party's in the minority. If they change it to just a 51 vote threshold, even if they limit it to just on abortion rights, as she's saying, what do you think that does? Let's assume that they have the congressional power to actually pass an abortion rights bill, which they don't see my Friday show. They don't, they don't have the constitutional ability to do that in Congress and the presidency. And it will be struck down by the U S Supreme court as an excess. This is not a federal matter. It's a state's rights matter. If you care about abortion,

vote for a pro-choice governor and pro-choice state legislators. This is not a federal thing should not affect your presidential vote. But in any event, let's say she wins. She pushes through an abortion rights bill in the U.S. Congress, including the U.S. Senate, by just 51 votes. Let's say somehow they withstand a legal challenge to that bill. And the Supreme Court says, you know what? You do have the power to do it. Great. You've got your bill. And the Roe regime is now established in all 50 states. Okay, great. The Democrats are thrilled. The Republicans are miserable. They can't believe this has happened. We're back to the Roe regime. All the states that have harsher limits now, six week bans, done, done, done. We're at the Roe regime where it's determined by viability around 24 weeks. Before that,

you can't ban it. And whatever um, whatever limitations were in place around row could stand potentially during the row years. What do you think they've just opened the door for to my pro-choice friends? What do you think they have just opened the door for that behavior is an acknowledgement that abortion can be regulated at the federal level and that nationwide policy can be set by the party in control with just a 51 vote majority in the Senate. Do you really think there will be no time in the future in which we have a Republican pro-life president and a Republican majority in the Senate and a Republican majority in the House that might be inclined to pass a nationwide ban. Do you really think that's such an impossibility that you want to get rid of minority rights in the Senate, which means getting rid of the filibuster? You want to take that gamble? Right now, the majority of states still allow abortion, still follow the Roe regime.

A handful of small, deep red states have gone much more restrictive on it. And the women in those states will have to make a choice about leaving if this is a big issue for them, getting abortion drugs mailed to them, or just traveling to another state if they want an abortion. But the vast majority of women in America will have absolutely no trouble procuring an abortion now. But if the Democrats, including Kamala Harris, get rid of the filibuster in the Senate and say they can take a vote on abortion with just 51 votes and manage to pass a national abortion regime. They have opened the door. They have green lit the ability of the Republicans to come back when they're in power and do exactly the opposite if they take power. The better

and correct legally analysis is that the U.S. Congress does not have the power to regulate abortion on a national basis. Post Dobbs, it is a state by state matter, and that's exactly as it should be. That's exactly where both sides should want it to remain. So her saying she wants to eliminate the filibuster to pass an abortion rights bill is extremely dangerous for both sides. Pay attention. I urge you, women who are about to vote on this issue, no one is telling you that. I practiced law for a decade. Trust me, trust me on the abortion issue. I have researched this. No good will come to you in getting rid of the filibuster and strong arming through an abortion rights federal law. Moving on, she apparently no longer wants to decriminalize illegal border crossings,

but I'm not sure because she really won't say much about it. She certainly hasn't committed to any deportations of the between 10 and 20 million illegals who came in on her watch. She never talks about deportations. She only talks about pathway to citizenship. She wants to cut back on cops. She's made that clear. She said she wanted a mandatory buyback program for guns in America, which would also likely be unconstitutional. You can't say retroactively that something is unlawful. That was lawful just a minute ago. Can't like, I have my gun and on Monday it's legal and on Tuesday it's illegal and Kamala Harris shows up to collect it.

Now, under pressure as she ran in this campaign, she claims she owns a gun. Yeah, John Wayne's back. And she doesn't want a mandatory buyback program, right, because it's illegal. But she does back an assault weapons ban, which would make even certain kinds of semi-automatic handguns illegal. Great. Good luck with that. We have between 300 and 400 million of them in the United States. I look forward to your ban. Exactly how do you plan on implementing that? She wants public funding of healthcare for illegals. I don't want to pay for the dental work of the illegals who are killing our children.

Maybe it's just me. I don't. I don't want the lure to the other illegals who are thinking about coming here once she reopens our borders, which she absolutely will. Now they find out that they can get these government checks to get housing, they can get government checks to get food, and they can get government checks to get benefits, to get health care benefits. Most Americans can barely pay for their own health care, never mind the health care of the people pushing the fentanyl down our college kids' throats. Culturally, she says she wants us to be as woke as possible. Here she is. You know, we have to stay woke.

Like, everybody needs to be woke. And you can talk about if you're the wokest or woker, but just stay more woke than less woke. Yeah. She's an idiot, but she's a dangerous idiot. She invited men in dresses with beards to the White House. Remember this? In they come, six foot four man in a dress, behaving like a schoolgirl with his beard and his mustache. Okay. In our White House. She allowed men with fake breasts posing as women to expose those breasts on the White House lawn. Look at this disgrace. She thought this was inclusive. She wants to be inclusive of these sick people at the people's house. She thinks Rachel Levine is a woman and has no problem

with him pushing gender transitions on minors, even when he's been told as it came out within the past two weeks that the evidence suggests, even within the trans medical community, that they know these kids can't give informed consent. Kamala Harris raised money to bail out BLM rioters in Minnesota who hurt civilians and cops. She told Jacob Blake, who threatened cops with a knife, that she was proud of him. She is as woke as they come. And don't think for one second she has checked that at the White House door. She just hasn't been center stage for these four years. She's a big believer in equity, which means we all have a right to end up in the same place, irrespective of how much hard work goes into it or merit goes into it. Listen.

So there's a big difference between equality and equity. Equality suggests, oh, everyone should get the same amount. The problem with that, not everybody's starting out from the same place. So if we're all getting the same amount, but you started out back there and I started out over here, we can get the same amount, but you're still going to be that far back behind me. It's about giving people the resources and the support they need so that everyone can be on equal footing and then compete on equal footing. Equitable treatment means we all end up at the same place. We all end up at the same place. We all end up at the same place.

Your neighbor has a right to your job, your home, and your things, even if he doesn't work as hard as you do because of equity. Got it? That is Kamala Harris's America. I could have shown you 40 soundbites of her saying that. It was not a one-off. This is her core belief. It is Marxist, and she's not abandoned it. She does not believe in merit because she has not advanced on merit. She transferred into Howard University. It appears she didn't get in. That's my speculation. First try. She got into law school on a diversity crutch.

She failed the bar exam first time out. She got into the San Francisco DA's office and then began an affair with the most powerful man in California politics, who was some 40 years her senior. Sure, it was love. He paved the way for her to become DA, the top job in the DA's office, and there began her real ascension into power. She became vice president because she is a black woman. Joe Biden made that explicit. No one in the Biden White House believed in her. They tried to hide her for four years. She made a fool of herself for four years as VP, and even Barack Obama knew it. He was one of the last people to come on board, reportedly,

on Kamala Harris replacing Biden on the ticket because he's smart enough to know she can't do it. She is a bully who lost more than 92% of her staff, more than 92% of her staff. They left in droves, alleging that she was abusive, lazy, would not do the work, and then would blame others. This is a report from Microsoft News that embodies some of those facts. Facing a 92% staff turnover, Vice President Kamala Harris reportedly has a reputation as an alleged soul-destroying workplace bully. An analysis from Open the Books, a political tracking source, shows that only four of the 71 staffers hired by Harris during her first year in office remain in the job, the rest either quitting or being fired. Analysis shows Harris's Senate office, too, had the ninth highest staff turnover rate out of 114 senators who served between 2017 and 2020. Reporting indicates that she would berate those working under her in expletive heavy rants.

This is all before she ran for president. At least this time around. This is before the coup. This is when she was running the first time and they still wanted to report honestly on her because they recognized she was too radical. I have never seen an organization treated staff so poorly. Kelly Mellenbacher, former state operations director on Kamala Harris's presidential campaign, said in a letter shared with the New York Times. More from the Daily Mail. In June of 2021, Politico, citing a Politico report, spoke to 22 individuals familiar with Harris's VP office, who all claimed that her team was experiencing, quote, low morale, porous lines of communication and diminished trust among aides and senior

officials. Quote, it's not a place where people feel supported, but a place where people feel that they are treated like shit, according to one source. A Biden administration official claimed Harris was responsible. Quote, it all starts at the top. This is political. That sentiment was shared by Gil Duran,

an ex-aid to Harris who worked in her AG's office and quit after five months. Quote, what is the common denominator through all of this, he said. It's her. Multiple staffers who worked for Harris before she was vice president told the Washington Post in December 2021 how she had reportedly refused to prepare for public appearances, and then she would blame her aides when she underperformed. Quote, it's clear with Harris that you're not working with someone who is willing to do the prep and the work, said one ex-aid. With Kamala, you have to put up with a constant

amount of soul-destroying criticism and also her own lack of confidence. So you are constantly sort of propping up a bully, and it's not really clear why. In the summer of 2021, reported by CNN, Harris was said to have been prepped extensively by her team on how she could respond to questions about why she had not yet visited the southern border despite her role as White House border czar. When the time came to deliver her answer, Harris blew it in that now infamous interview with NBC's Lester Holt. You remember, I've been to the border. You haven't been to the border. And I haven't been to Europe. Weird laugh. That's Kamala Harris. When do you hear about that now? You hear about how Trump's a douchebag, right? He's a complete ass. You hear that all the time.

He's Hitler. He's fascist. All that. All of it. Because of his rhetoric, nasty rhetoric. He says mean things about people. Newsome, newscum. Oh, it's all the horror. What happened to all the reporting about what a bully jerk she is to the people who are trying to make her look good? What a lazy, know-nothing, do-nothing candidate. This woman has run for president on nothing other than empty words. You've heard them here a million times. I know you don't need the reminder, but here it is. Having the right to have aspirations and dreams and ambitions. If you have the dreams and the ambitions and the aspirations of what I believe you do, what I know to be the spirit and character of the American people. We have ambition.

We have aspirations. We have dreams. I believe in the ambition, the aspirations, the dreams of the American people. Ambition is a good thing. Dream with ambition. Yeah. And we will applaud it. Ambitions and aspirations and dreams. But not everyone necessarily has access to the resources that can help them fuel those dreams and ambitions. Wow. These are meaningless, sweet nothings. She is trying to fool you into believing she's a

quote, generic Democrat, because a generic Democrat is shown in these polls as beating Trump. But she is not. She is a San Francisco liberal who will pull this country even further to the left than it's already been pulled. She will triple down on race essentialism, the trans madness, unnecessary surgeries and scandalous sterilization of minors, exclusion of parents from their kids' schools where they are having soft porn pushed on them in the libraries and in the classrooms, not to mention the subjugation of boys and men. She will reopen the southern border. It only closed three months prior. It's not closed, but got more closed three months prior to the election so that Joe Biden could win this

election. He didn't realize he'd be out of the race. Why would they go three and a half years without doing anything? Why would they take office and pass dozens of executive orders, sign dozens of executive orders, opening the border and then let it sit there for three and a half years as 10 to 20 million illegals cross the southern border if they actually cared about the border? They only put that stopgap in there so that they could win the election and then they will resume their old plan. Why would they do anything else? They tell us they think the open border is, quote, humane, humane. She will let the Trump tax cuts expire. They're about to and she will not renew them. Your taxes will go up. Oh, she says it's

just the rich. Just you wait. As corporate America sees its taxes skyrocket, you will lose jobs. The inflation pain she and Joe Biden caused will be coupled with the loss of your job and your benefits. And God help you if when you hit the unemployment line, you're white or a man or God forbid both. In Kamala Harris's America, you're not even at the back of the line if you check those boxes. You're not in line at all. In fact, you're to blame for all of our problems. It is a modern day form of reparations that she is unleashing on American men without owning it. And by the way, her push for reparations is yet another policy position. She refuses to say whether she stands by. This person is weak and she is stupid. She

is not a smart person and far from a deep thinker. She will get eaten alive by Putin and she. No one will fear us. She cannot make decisions. The 3 a.m. phone call will leave her paralyzed with fear and indecision. She will fail in her negotiations with our adversaries because she cannot think on her feet. The presidency is not a job you can do for four years with training wheels. At some point, you have to make important calls in the moment. You have to think in the moment. You have to be clever. You must outsmart. She couldn't even outsmart the ladies of The View. She is a silly

person. Her cackle and unfunny jokes have a deleterious effect on her image, and that image cannot be that of our president. People don't respect her as they must, as they must our president and our first female president, okay? The first woman to become the American president must be someone whose intelligence is unassailable, whose facility with the spoken word is something to admire, who can make a point sharply and with ease and with substance without breaking a sweat. We have had female leaders in the world just like this. Kamala Harris is not one of them. Here's one you might remember. I have to establish very clear limits on the role of government. And really, you know, politicians, I think, should sometimes just be a little bit more modest about their

abilities than they are. We can't run everything, and we shouldn't try. I believe certain things very strongly. I believe that we were going towards a way of life in which people were constantly looking to the state to solve their problems and to do things for them. You know, when the state does everything for you, it will soon take everything from you. You will then have no basis for personal freedom, political freedom, nor economic freedom.

I saw it going much too far. And I think it would have gone even further had I not won that 1979 election too far ever to pull it back. That, of course, Margaret Thatcher, prime minister in the UK, and someone who, even if you hated her politics, you could not challenge her intelligence. They say Kamala Harris will break barriers, the first woman president,

but her election will set women back decades because she is not a smart person. The first female president must be someone our little girls can actually look up to. It must be someone who neither side can question when it comes to her credentials and her ability to do the job. Otherwise, there won't be another one for years. Her incompetence will be chalked up to the fact that she is female. This is about to set us back, not push us forward. Someone should break this barrier, and that person should not and cannot be this person.

On the other hand, there's Donald Trump. He's not without his flaws and everyone knows that. But the reasons that this thing is even close between the two of them are twofold. Trump's personality, yes, and abortion. I already made clear the abortion thing on this Friday show and what I just discussed above. You get it. Do not vote for the presidency based on abortion politics. Let me put it to you this way. Let me sum it up for you this way. When Dobbs was decided in June of 2022, Biden and Harris were in office. They were in the White House. The Democrats controlled the Senate and the House. They had full control. 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 do it.

They knew at some level this would be struck down. They don't have those powers. They knew also that they didn't have the votes. They did not get rid of the filibuster. At that point, Joe Manchin was there. Kyrsten Sinema was there, who did not appear too keen on getting rid of minority rights in the Senate. But it didn't happen. And it can happen. It's not going to happen for all the reasons that I've outlined. Don't vote for president based on anything having to do with abortion. This is a state's rights issue now. But the president can do a lot outside of the abortion field. The president has a lot of responsibilities that may and will directly affect your life. Before I get to that, a word on Trump's personality.

I know. I get it. Okay? 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's strong in his language and he's strong period. He has to be. Who in modern day America has had more thrown at them than Donald Trump? A vile media that lies about him at every turn, calling him Hitler, a Nazi, a fascist, Goebbels, smearing his family, four criminal prosecutions, multiple civil suits that could cost him his business, some courtesy of the Biden-Harris DOJ, which they had go after their chief political rival and then have the nerve to look at all of you and say, he's going to do that to us. I mean, the absolute gall. The phony Russian collusion hoax, they stole his first term with that wild

goose chase based on the Clinton campaign's baseless lies. Two impeachments, assassination attempts, including one that killed a beloved supporter. They call him Hitler on magazine covers and in so-called mainstream news, Like it's, you know, a fact, 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. Just Trump's words fighting back. That's the only problem. If you ask the media, that's 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.

He's 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's 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. 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 word 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, to fight for us, not someone who reads scripted lines and memorize soundbites 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 Adam Schiff is the enemy from within is the guy who had the guts to stand by 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 TEI 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's 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's the guy who pushed

the leader of Montenegro out of the way when he was standing in front of the US president. He's the guy who bombed Soleimani. He's the guy who threatened the Taliban leader that he knew where he lived, 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's strong. He's a leader. He's decisive and he is unafraid. He's a patriot. He loves America, notwithstanding what they tell you. He's funny. He's 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 outfit and serve the fries or do the garbage truck thing. 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 enforcement priorities are straight. He may get to appoint another Supreme Court justice if a justice

retires or God forbid dies. And 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 court has stood up time and time again for beloved, treasured American principles like non-discrimination, even if the group being discriminated against is white. And Americans' free speech rights, which include no mandated speech. You cannot make me say I support anything, whether it's BLM or someone's pronouns. This court has stricken a blow to the administrative state, the deep state, cutting the power significantly of unelected bureaucrats and so much more. Who's 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's the one area in which a conservative or a Republican's legacy can continue to reign even when he or she's out of office. The economy remains the number one, sometimes two issue for virtually all Americans. Trump's economy was soaring. He did use tariffs, but 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 a far greater percentage cut for the lower and the working and the middle classes, far greater

percentages cut of their taxes. 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's now claiming he's 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 incomes grew and inequality diminished, according to the Wall Street Journal, which tracked it. And the poverty rate among Black Americans fell below 20% for the first time since World War II. You know, the racist Trump.

He made the unemployment rate for blacks go under 6% for the first time in 50 years. It's a strange way to be a white nationalist. Strange policies. Aren't they? The media lies about Trump like nothing we've ever seen before. They've gone all in. And the messaging these past few weeks has been truly disheartening, even for me, who is extremely jaded over their performance to begin with. You can't believe anything they tell you.

I mean, we've truly gotten to the point where you can't believe anything they tell you. Barack Obama was out on the stump this weekend, repeating the very fine people on both sides lies. He actually tried to peddle that lie. It's been fact-checked by Snopes, a left-wing organization. I mean, just listen to Trump. You know, just listen to the original soundbite, and you will hear Trump make very, very clear that he didn't say that, that he was specifically condemning the white nationalists appearing at that Charlottesville rally, but they continue to peddle these lies

because they know very few will fact-check them. All of this is why I'm going to support Donald Trump tonight and have supported him in this election with my vote and why I said yes to the invitation. Because what we've gotten is a mountain of lies from these dishonest brokers in the media who go out there and try to claim that they're objective and nonpartisan and spew nonsense, nonsense about her and him. There's very little fact checking and there are very few honest brokers left. And so the American populace goes to the votes, the voting booths tomorrow with one arm tied behind their back. They actually don't know the truth. People I know and love who pay fairly close attention to politics still don't know all

of the lies. Smart people, because of course I get it. You're out there living your life. You're not reading news eight to 10 hours a day. Why should you have to? You're not working tirelessly to fact check these people. There's just a level of feeling overwhelmed. Like I can't, you know, I'm just going to go on gut instinct. But if I can do anything to set the record straight on what we're actually looking at here, I'm going to do it. And I hope that you will not only vote tomorrow, but if you were in one of the critical swing states, you will take five friends and get them to the polls. Make sure, make sure they're voting for Trump and then get them to the polls because this

thing is tight. I do not believe that it's a runaway either way for her or for him right now. I just, I don't believe that. I think the polls really would show us that. And even, even Atlas is not showing, you know, a runaway. It's tight. Every person's got to get out to vote right now. What we're seeing is those low propensity male voters who Trump's reelection or election is depending on are spending more time than we'd like on the couch, but they do need to get up.

The women are out voting you. They're getting to the polls. And if you don't get up and grab your buddies and get to the polls, she'll become the president. And then what are you going to do? Then what are you going to do? It's too late after Tuesday. Get to the polls. And women who want to support themselves, their children, and their husbands, you get to the polls too. And remember what I said about abortion and Trump's rhetoric. Please remember what I said. Trust me. I'm telling you the truth. I'm in the business of truth. 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's tight. We don't know how it's going to land, but we still can control it. Okay. So that's my overview of the 2024 race as it now stands. It's a little scary, right?

I heard somebody say on the Dem side, I read, I think it was in the New York Times, that some Democrats are feeling nauseously optimistic. I think that describes how I've heard the Republicans describe their feelings as well. Nauseously optimistic. I've spoken with people deep in Team Trump who feel very confident. They recognize it's tight, but they absolutely reject things like that Ann Seltzer Des Moines Register poll in Iowa as absolute nonsense. And they're showing good numbers. I mean, there's certainly good numbers coming out of states like Nevada on the early vote. There are more Republicans registered in the United States of America than there are

Democrats. We've had more for the first time in years, more Republicans are in the country than our Democrats. Now, will they all vote for Trump? No, but he's in a much better position than he was even four years ago, given these voter registration numbers. And Republicans are leaning into early voting, which is helpful. Those votes are banked, but that doesn't alleviate the obligation on day of. And also, frankly, the obligation to watch the polls and make sure that this thing is handled with integrity and without cheating. And I know Team Trump is dispatching many poll watchers and

has been working on many over the past four years to try to shore up what they believe are serious integrity problems. And he's got the help of some, some governors like in a state like Florida, like in a state like Virginia. Okay. Um, up next, Steve Bannon is here and we're going to get his take on where this thing stands. Tomorrow, we are also going to bring you not only what happened tonight at the rally, but take your calls and answer questions from listeners and viewers during our live show tomorrow afternoon before the live coverage begins on this program at 8 p.m. Eastern time. So you can send your questions now to Megan, M-E-G-Y-N at megankelly.com. And you can call me tomorrow at 833-44-M-E-G-Y-N. That's 833-446-3496. Don't go away. Steve Bannon

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I heard your reaction that it only made you stronger and more determined to fight. You know, the last contact with the outside world I had besides my little press conference there was doing your show. I did your show and then went into prison the next day, I think, the day after. So it was an interesting experience. Very interesting experience. I cherished the experience.

You did? You cherish it? Why? At 70 years old, you don't get the opportunity to really challenge yourself or be in a totally different environment. I mean, look, it's a federal prison. It wasn't a camp. It's a dangerous place. There's a lot of dangerous people there, but there are also some good people. So I had a very intense experience over four months and I learned a lot. I just observed, watched and, and learned so much. And quite frankly, understood six weeks into there

how and why Kamala Harris was going to lose. So on the political side, it was a real awakening for me on certain areas. Interesting. What do you mean? Well, you see in this early voting, you see the problem. Let's take Pennsylvania for a second. African-American men and Hispanic men are not voting for Kamala Harris. Five or six weeks

as I started to teach, I started to teach civics and government to the inmates in the education department at Danbury. It was very evident because she is, well, they refer to her as the queen of mass incarcerations. And President Trump came with this first step back, which really would incentivize nonviolent drug dealers, which are you have a lot of Hispanic and young African-American men there to get into that system and try to better themselves, have a flawless record in prison, and they can cut their sentences up to half. You know, she hasn't you know, the Biden regime hasn't, hasn't really implemented any of it, almost none of it. And they see her as not deporting

the really hardened criminal drug dealers coming in from the cartels. And they're actually starting to show up in prisons now, and they're very violent and very dangerous. So the prison is starting to get those guys yet the first step back, which president Trump did. And the reason that Kamala Harris and Biden are not doing it in the inmates know that it's a political win for Trump. It's a huge win. So I found out while I was there, not that these guys are going to vote for Trump. I think up to 30 percent, maybe African-American men, maybe 50 percent Hispanic would actually vote for Trump. But she's not going to get an African-American male or Hispanic vote. You see the numbers coming out of Pennsylvania where it's in free fall. I think the same in Wisconsin and Michigan. So she has a massive problem with their coalition that I was able to really learn about and really

understand, you know, we tried the job, you know, they blame them for the illegal alien invasion, and particularly in the cities where jobs, the wages have come down because what they try to do from the Federal Reserve and the Biden regime, this is what they did. This is why Wall Street loves it. Wall Street doesn't want one person deported, not one. And I'd learned that in this prison from young black and Hispanic inmates. And it's all played out. The only statement I put out, 26 September, I put out a pretty long statement, said victory's at hand. And I walked through the politics of joy to her pivot to the night falls in America with fascism. It wasn't going to work. But that the mass incarcerations that black men are not going

to vote for, Hispanic men are not going to vote for. And if they don't vote for, she's not going to be president of the United States. There's not enough Taylor Swift. They don't have to vote for Trump, but if they don't come out and they, they lower her percentage of the black vote, it hurts just as badly.

This is key. If they vote for Trump, it's, it's a two bagger. If they just don't vote for her, it's a one, but it's, it's,

it's killer. There's not enough Swifties out there to make that up. And I think this is going to play out. If we are to win this, I think it's going to be one of the biggest elements of it. Okay. So back up and explain what you mean when you say you see those numbers coming out of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and I think you may have said Georgia. What are you seeing specifically? Because most of us have not been following the data as closely as you. Well, you know, it was to build a firewall. Let's say that they had one point, I think 1.7 million early votes or 1.5 million early votes in 2020. They have like 700,000,

800,000, there's 700,000 short of where they were in 2020. They haven't built a firewall. The gap, the starting gap in the whole is only 300,000 votes, 350,000 votes. It was over a million one in 2020. Those 700,000 votes. And let me be very specific about this. Can you say where? And do you just mean the black vote? No, no, no.

In the whole Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Right now, if you look at the right now if you look at the data if you look at the data they are you know they they've they've had 700 000 fewer uh early votes than they had before and these were low propensity voters that voted because the pandemic now remember in 2020 that number was always i felt fishy because throughout the country, we picked up 15 House seats in 2020. We picked up 15 House seats against Nancy Pelosi. We netted 12 because we lost a couple. We won 15 House seats. You're telling me that Biden got 81 million votes where Obama just got 60. So it's 15 million more votes than Obama. And we picked up 15 House seats.

It just always seemed fishy. In 22, the House, in winning the House, let's leave that aside, the individuals. If you look at the popular vote, we won the popular vote of our opponents by 5 or 6 million votes for the House. Those low-propensity voters didn't show up. And they said, well, Steve, they only hate, they won't vote for House races. They only hate Trump. They only show up. In this, in Pennsylvania, there's 750 or 800,000 votes short of where they were in 2020. It's the same crowd. It's this low propensity voter. And they're not going to show up on Tuesday. They vote, these guys are low propensity. They vote early. And quite frankly, they've missed the last,

they missed 22 and they're going to miss now. And they missed early voting. So, and if you look in the, in the, if you go into the depth of that, I think it's 80,000 males in, in Philadelphia area, black men have not, have not voted who would normally vote.

They've not voted. So the numbers in the that's why she's going back to Philadelphia. Her numbers coming out of here are horrific. She has done better with women. She has done better with suburban women. She's done better with the credential class college educated woman. But their basic coalition is not coming together. That's why. And tomorrow we have to represent, but here's what we know on the eve of battle. They do not have a firewall anywhere. They don't have a firewall in North Carolina. There's no firewall in Pennsylvania. There's no firewall in Nevada. There's no firewall in Arizona. In fact, there's a reverse in some of these. They have no firewalls.

So this is hand-to-hand combat tomorrow in delivering game day voters. This is why she's going back and forth between Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. And in Pennsylvania, she's going to Allentown, which is a Hispanic-majority town. She's going to Philadelphia. She's going back to core constituencies, not trying to expand or try to get the coalition together. That's not what Trump's doing right now. So I think, look, it's all about delivery tomorrow, but the early vote numbers are catastrophic. Part of this, Megan, which they don't talk about, is what the architecture of

the electorate is very different today than it was in 2020 or even 2016. The voter registration of people like Scott Presler and all of these small grassroots groups that had no money and no support have really dramatically changed what is the architecture of the electorate that will be there tomorrow. It's much more heavily weighted Republican. And those people that register, although they're low propensity because they just registered, they're going to vote and they ain't going to vote for Nikki Haley's candidate, you know, Kamala Harris or Liz Cheney's candidate, Kamala Harris, they're going to vote for Donald Trump. Now, the thing that's making a lot of people nervous on the right, two things, the Iowa poll by Ann Seltzer, Des Moines, Des Moines register. And secondly,

this news out of Pennsylvania, uh, citing here from NBC that they've had a ton of new registered voters, uh, who are Democrat winner women, I should say, Democrat women, Democrats, uh, 55,000 total new voters. Republicans, 32.5 thousand total new voters. So they're saying that the Democrat women are outpacing all the other voting groups in terms of their new registered voters who have filed early vote, I think. So they're, you know, they're feeling very confident about Pennsylvania because of that. And I think a So they're, you know, they're feeling very confident about Pennsylvania because of that. And I think a lot of Republicans are worried about that. You saw Charlie Kirk tweet out, if these guys stay on their couches, she's going to win. Get up, get to the polls. If you don't want Kamala Harris as the president, get out. And I think he was specifically talking

about Pennsylvania. So can you address first Pennsylvania, and then we'll talk about that Iowa poll? Yeah. Look, if we don't – on the eve of this, we've perfectly positioned this. If you get out and you're a force multiplier, not just you have to own your own vote, but you also have to bring the people you know, the 10 in your circle, or you have to go and help Canvas today. Today is still the most active day for political work. And in between interviews, I'm giving motivational talks to people all day long. You have to do that. This is all in play. We have no guarantees of anything here. And yes, they have towards the end signed up, signed up women. And you have to assume this, the female is an anti-patriarchy, anti-Trump vote,

and they've done a solid job on that. Now, some of their, some of the patriarchs, the patriarchy inside their own coalition is not showing up for them. But that means tomorrow you have to represent and you have to be a force multiplier. It's all in the field. And my concern has been from the beginning the complacency, potential complacency. What do I mean by that? In 2016, you could argue that Hillary Clinton lost as much as we won. Because as you know, you remember, and you remember the exit polls where we were losing. We snuck up on them. Every day they were blowing me up on Morning Joe. Why is he spending time in Wisconsin and Michigan and Pennsylvania? He's not going to win these. You got to win Ohio and these other

states and, and just to get it close. Can I tell you something? Yeah, I got to tell you something. It's a crazy story. So on election night in 2016, we sat down as the anchors and producers and the behind the scenes teams with the decision desk people. Arnon Mishkin and all those guys who ran the decision desk for Fox, as we did on every election cycle. We had done it in 2012. We'd done it in 2008 and all the midterms. So we sat down on 2016 and it's five o'clock at night when you have this meeting. They've just gotten the first big round of exit poll data where their people have been in a locked box pouring through it all day. They're not allowed to communicate outside of their locked box. And

finally, they're released and they can go home to their news organizations and tell you how things look. And it's a fun moment because as the news anchor, you get your first secret look-see into how the vote is looking. And then you go out in the air and you're not allowed to say what you've been told. But with a wink and a nod, you can kind of suggest to the audience how things are looking. It's not until the actual vote starts coming in and the polls close that you are allowed to speak about what you know. But I will never forget, Steve, at five o'clock in that meeting with Fox News in 2016, Arnon Mishkin said, it's going to be a very good night for Hillary Clinton. And all the data they had gotten so far was super pro-Hillary. And what did I know? I'm

listening to Arnon. He knows a lot more about it than I did. And so when we went out in the air that night, we 100% had been led to believe this was going to be her night. So you are right. He did sneak up and take it. Hang on. It gets worse. So at five o'clock, we get it leaked from one of the news sources. And I've been telling Trump 100% metaphysical certitude. We're going to get this. We got to spend it on the North thing. Ma'am, we are, I think, up by two points in Ohio, or even in Ohio, up by two points in Iowa. We're getting blown out everywhere. It's almost a 350 to 400 electoral vote landslide.

And I look at Jared. We're standing on a balcony freezing with the wind. And we look, and I go, I said, can we have screwed this? Are we this far off with our thing? And Jared goes, hang on a second. He says, let me call Drudge. And so we called Drudge. And Drudge at that time was the ally. We called Drudge, and we were on the blower. And we go, and Drudge had just seen him too. And he goes, hang on a second. He says, let me call Drudge. And so we called Drudge. And Drudge at that time was the ally.

We called Drudge, and we were on the blower. And we go, and Drudge had just seen him too. And he goes, screw this. This is corporate media. This is all gun deck. They don't know what they're talking about. It's all a lie. Don't worry about it.

So we called then candidate Trump. And we told him. We said, hey, look, Drudge says this. We think we got this. Our numbers, we can pull this off. And he said, hey, look, we left everything on the field, and let's just power through it. But I got to tell you, Megan, at 5 o'clock at night,

when they gave us those exit polls, first off, she was going to be named president at 9 o'clock at night. It was a short night, and we were getting blown out everywhere. But it shows you, and this is even for tomorrow, it's about people showing up. Obviously, people were intimidated, didn't want to say they voted for Trump to the exit poll, guys, because they're very good. That's what I'm thinking now is that you've got to play through. You've got to go through the tape. What happened

is Robbie Mook and the people in Brooklyn, as you remember, were very arrogant. They never sent her to Wisconsin. She never really went to Michigan. They sent her to Detroit. They just had this arrogance that they were trying to go to Arizona and Georgia and expand it. They wanted to get 350 or 400 electoral votes. They gave her a mandate. They dismissed us. They didn't take it seriously. And they didn't see where the country was.

And I think the only thing I've got is people that are, oh, we're going to win the popular vote. We're going to win Virginia and New Mexico. We're going to add up New Hampshire. Hey, that's all fine. But the game is 270. It's not popular vote. Let's just get me to two 70. Let's have a path that gets us there. We're focused on that. We, everywhere we go is focused on that. We must win this and we got to hold the house.

We have to hold the house. I'm glad we're going to take the Senate, but we have to hold the house. We have to win the presidency at two 70, anything above it, no matter if we get to 300 or close to 300, which I think we might be able to do if we deliver, they're never going to say we have a mandate. Right? So you're not going to get this theoretical. Like Trump never had a honeymoon. We're not going to get a mandate. So to me, tomorrow is the little guy turning out.

There's no meme. There's no advertising. There's no billionaire. There's no Do. There's no advertising. There's no billionaire. There's no Deuce X Machina. It's just on the MAGA movement to deliver this tomorrow. You mentioned Drudge. Is Drudge still Drudge? Do we know? Does Drudge still own the Drudge? Is it still Matt Drudge? It's so leftist now. Well, not just leftist. It's leftist. It's been a while. But just go there. Just look. It's not I mean, Drudge was a palette because Andrew was his editor for for many years. I got to see it from the inside. He was an artist. He was an artist. Those stories where he would pull stuff the way that the site was. It was a palette that he painted on. Right. Of news. And they had a whole different way of just presenting news that was very, very unique. And no, whoever's running it now is clearly not Drudge. I mean, it's just some

stuff thrown up there. Very few stories. I think they got 50 stories today. So it's, and it clearly hates Trump. I mean, the smallest thing, but even more than that, it's not the tool. It used to be, used to be a tremendous tool and asset. So true. So do we, do we know if it's still Matt or if he sold it? Cause there was a rumor that he sold it. I don't know. The last time I saw Matt, when, um, when he showed up for Andrew's funeral, he had not been seen in years. He shows up and, you know, people had not seen him in years and he was fully ripped.

He had a black tee on. I mean, he looked like the bionic man. It was not the mad drug people remember. And I just remember we're standing aside and Larry and John Kahn and the rest of them, because we were launching the new site on Sunday. We launched it on Sunday. Andrew died on Thursday night, four nights before he launched the site you see today. And there was some controversy whether they were going to shut it down or launch it.

And so the widow said, no, Andrew gave his life for this. We're definitely going to launch this site. I think the funeral was on Tuesday or Wednesday. And when George came at the end, he kind of sat there because we're going to have a celebration of life. And Matt said, what are you guys going to do? And I said, well, look, we're going to keep going. We've got a team. We've got the –

We're going to generate cash for her. We've got a payroll. And our investors say, yeah, let's take a shot at it. And he shook his head and he said, you know, I don't get that. He says, when I'm gone, the site's over. It's just boom. It was here for a period of time. It was mine.

It's my thing. And I wouldn't pass it on to anybody else. But today, clearly, I don't think that's Matt Drudge. It's clearly not Matt. You can just see it's not anywhere near the artistry of really how you put information. I know exactly what you mean. Yeah, agreed. Although I will say right on brand, mysterious as always.

Okay. You mentioned Trump and the possible path. What do you think is the most likely path? If he, if he pulls this off tomorrow, what do you think will be the like the most likely group of States that put him over? Well, I think right now, and this is all about what you deliver, particularly on something like North Carolina. I think that North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada could be, you know, one's locked down. And then I think it's Wisconsin or Pennsylvania. She's got to hold the blue wall in Nebraska, too. And she gets the 270. But I think his path is probably what I call the Sunbelt states plus Wisconsin, which I think he's having real problems with. Wisconsin is a tricky one, right?

Because it's been very, very hard to poll. All pollsters have been wrong, wrong by like 11-point swings. I don't know why it's so hard to poll. But Trump won it in 2016, and he lost it by half a point last time around, if memory serves. So you'd have to say he's likely to be competitive in it, but you like that even more than Pennsylvania potentially. Well, I think we're going to win Pennsylvania.

I really do. But Pennsylvania is a heavy lift. I mean, it's a big, diverse state. I'm saying that I think she has actually more problems than Wisconsin right now, at least as of now, unless they shore it up. Listen, when you have places like Madison, Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin, you have places like Ann Arbor, Michigan, you have these massive, massive population centers of progressive kids, Taylor Swift fans, you're always in play. So you got to be very careful about that. And so it's tough to call these. But I think she's got real problems in Wisconsin. That may be the easiest one to fall.

Although I believe, as I see it right now, if we deliver, if we get it done, I think we could win Pennsylvania also. The former president is going to Pennsylvania, two stops today. He's going to North Carolina and he will finish the campaign know, the campaign basically the final stop will be in grand Rapids, Michigan late tonight. Uh, so that tells you something. He definitely thinks his hopes are still alive in all three of those. He has not given up on Michigan by any stretch. And he's actually up in Michigan, according to some polls today. What do you make of the fact that he's having to go to North Carolina and she's going there too? I kind of thought North Carolina was leaning more heavily

Trump and that that might've been closer to a Georgia, closer to an Arizona where it was a little bit, not safe, but a little safer for president Trump. You have these big universities. I mean, you got the research triangle, you have these big universities i mean you got the research triangle you have these big universities north carolina is two things it's traditional the traditional tar heels but then you've got you add on top of that the the the the center of the credential class i mean the research triangle is like a mini so it's like 128 or austin or a mini version of silicon valley it's one of the most advanced medical and technology centers in the country. You've got Duke, you've got Wake Forest, you've got UNC.

You have these great schools. Anytime you have those, you have a hotbed of the progressive left. On top of that, it's become a big retirement community for folks that we see in Virginia are Yankees. Asheville, North Carolina, down in Southern Pines and in Pinehurst, you have a huge retirement thing because people don't want to go to Florida, but it's kind of, you know, it's the weather's fantastic. So on top of that, you then have, you have a lot of rural MAGA and North Carolina, I think is my biggest fear in 16 was North Carolina. We had, it's very, I think it's tough to pull. It's tough to organize. It was Mark Meadows. We went down exactly at the place they had the rally today. We went down the

Saturday morning before Tuesday. And I sat there with President Trump, talked, worked with Meadows and Meadows said, no, no, no, we got this. We're going to win this by a point, point and a half, two points. You don't need to come back. And Mark knew the Christian community down there. No, the reason we did not go back to North Carolina was, I actually canceled something, was Meadows telling me that, but he had a real feel. North Carolina is, I think, very tough. I think it was tough in 16. Although it's the one we won in 20, I got that, but it's tough because of you've got, you know, it's changing. You look at the maps, you know, we have 3,000 of the counties, I think of the 3,400 counties. The map is red in the country. changing you look at the maps you know we have 3 000 of the counties i think of the 3 400 counties the map is read in the country when we look at by county but besides the coast right the las and the new yorks and san francisco the bay area seattle you then you'll see

blue dots around and significant blue dots around the country that's charlottesville virginia it's austin texas it's madison wisconsin it's ann arbor mich. It's Austin, Texas. It's Madison, Wisconsin. It's Ann Arbor, Michigan. It's the research triangle of UNC and Duke and Wake Forest. Those are big centers. And remember, in the ballot harvesting business, it's like in Arizona with Arizona State and University of Arizona. Those are centerpieces where people sometimes can change their registration or register in the same day. These are ballot harvesting meccas. Very tough. And Carolina is going to be tough. We have to really represent tomorrow to win. I think we can. I think we will. But man, people got to turn out and it's got to be forced multipliers all over.

She is, on the other hand, spending the entire day today in Pennsylvania, Scranton, Allentown, and then rallies in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Maybe I'll see her when I go to Pittsburgh for Trump later today, um, say hi and get her speech on ambitions and aspirations and dreams. Let's move over to Nevada because John Ralston, the guy everybody reads who's no Trump fan, uh, keeps updating what he's seeing in the early vote every two days, every, no, more often every, every day. And what he posted late, I think it was late last night. Yeah. Sunday afternoon. And we're waiting for today's update is that the, he writes the Republican lead is 4% statewide or just under 43,000 ballots. Now he had said last week that

if Republicans can keep the early vote to a 40,000 or more lead, they were in business. Like it might be time for the fat lady to sing, but he's not saying that today. He's saying they do have a 43,000 ballot lead. Republicans do says almost 1.1 million votes have been posted. That's 53% of the expected. He says, uh, if turnout is 1.4 million, then we're approaching 80% of the vote being in. Okay. So he's trying to guess here. Anyway, the bottom line is about 1.1 million votes have been posted. If we wind up with 1.4 million turnout, we've seen 80% of the vote in and the Republicans have a 43,000 ballot lead, but he says there are at least 300,000 more

ballots out there, give or take. And he says he thinks turnout in Clark could be a bit lower. That's not great for Dems. That's a blue county. Rural's a bit higher. That's not great for Dems. Rurals tend to lean Republican. And Washoe, which I think is, isn't that Reno? I think that's more Republican leaning. But then he says this, instead of Dems building a big ballot lead this year, it's the Republicans who are doing it. And the question is, can the Dems come back with mail ballots, crossover votes by Republicans, and making election day a wash? What do you think of that, Steve? So one thing for your audience is that in the guy, Olson in the New York Post had his path to victory day, taking percentages off. Henry is a very smart guy, but he took percentages off like the Republicans are 95% support Trump

and 5% don't in the polling. What the Democrats are banking on nationwide is that there is a percentage of the Republican votes, and we're all giddy about the Republican vote. Their theory of the case is part of that is Liz Cheney, Nikki Haley, part of Nikki Haley's followers, Liz Cheney followers, that will be never Trump voters. So we just can't sit there and embrace the Republican and just think that's the ultimate solution. There may be some truth to that. We don't know. There may be some truth to that. The problem, Nevada is its own unique issue and that's what it is. Let's go back to Laxalt a couple of years ago. He had the 8,000 vote lead going into this last

week and then he lost by 8,000. The culinary union out there, coupled with the remnants, and there's still a remnant, I think run by a woman named Lamb, of the Harry Reid machine that knows how to, how do I say this politely, generate ballots. They're professionals. And Laxalt, he called me before he conceded because I was all over. He's a great guy. He really helped us in 16. I got to know him really well. And I begged him not to concede. I said, no, you don't understand. We can fight this. And he said, Steve, you can't fight these guys. They're too, you know, I had this thing won. I should have won it and they stole it from me. So I tell people and out there you have McDonald, the chairman, you have Seagal Chata,

and others, a huge, you know, war room grassroots, big grassroots effort out there. We can't, it ain't over till it's over in Nevada. Right now, it looks so much better. Look, Ralston, as you know, is not a Trump guy. He wrote that, and he sent all kinds of signals in it that I think everybody's blown away about where we've done, what the levels, what the effort has been done today, but it's still,

it still all gets down to tomorrow. And they, they got this funky thing too. I think mail-in ballots can come in on Wednesday morning. I mean, they, they've got some laws out there that are a little, you know, gamey about one thing's actually coming and how they count it. But the culinary union coupled with the Reed machine are professional grade and people should not take anything for granted coming out of Nevada. That's when you're going to have to show up and muscle this thing through tomorrow. And you're going to need a legal team that's just all over this thing. They, they have it. I mean, maybe you saw the New York Times magazine piece on

these terrified voters who are obsessed with election integrity in Nevada. And Jim Rutenberg went out there and interviewed a bunch of them. And, you know, the piece was ultimately somewhat, to be kind to the way he phrased it, dismissive of all of their concerns about voter integrity in Nevada. And yet here you're talking about how there's a machine and it knows how to win. The same is a concern in Pennsylvania where the mail-in ballot, I mean, that's what people are worried about in Pennsylvania, Steve, that we could get to a situation where Trump is winning on midnight tomorrow night, at midnight tomorrow night. And then suddenly they get like three days potentially of maybe even unmarked, unpostmarked ballots to come in after the election, which, you know, last time around, the Supreme Court allowed those ballots.

But they ultimately weren't necessary in the count because they found that Joe Biden had had won by such a margin that they didn't really have to get there this time around, the Supreme Court allowed those ballots, but they ultimately weren't necessary in the count because they found that Joe Biden had won by such a margin that they didn't really have to get there. This time around, I mean, that's the kind of thing that can make all the difference. This is yesterday's New York Times, you know, your favorite paper record in your new hometown. And they got a picture of me and look at the headline. It's Rutenberg, by the way, just randomly Rutenberg. Trump uses 20 playbook to lay groundwork for dispute. He and allies spread distorted reports inviting chaos if Harris wins the race. There you go.

And it's Rutenberg's right there with my picture. And the reason they're so freaked out is I gave this press conference, and people know this. I advocated President Trump stand up at 11 o'clock at night in 2020 and say, hey, look, I'm 800,000 votes ahead in Pennsylvania. That we're going to be all over how these votes are counted because there's, quote unquote, all this ballots to be counted. We need some order to this process. And I think it's right. You've got all these kind of different and I believe states should run their own elections, yes, but you've got all these funky different rules in the mail-in ballots are going to be an issue in Pennsylvania, just like the Culinary Union and the Reed Machine are going to be an issue in Nevada. And that's why I think we're much better prepared today. You've got a real team of lawyers on election integrity. Also, we've trained up, I think, 150 or 200,000 poll watchers, but also election officials that'll be around the green table as the ballots go.

And so ballot curing, all those types of things. Now we'd have great ballot chasing with Charlie Kirk. Now we've got a whole set of citizens that have been trained in ballot curing and also fighting around the table for these ballots. I think it'll be very different, but it's going to be an issue. And I keep telling people, don't think at 10 o'clock at night, they're going to be calling this no matter what the exit polls say, no matter what it is, because this is going to be, this is going to be a down in the trenches fight. No boy. All right. We're going to take a break before we go to break. I'm just going to play Trump's closing ad of this long, long campaign and extremely important one. Take a look at this before we come back.

Four years ago, we took a wrong turn and lost our purpose. We lost the strength that makes Americans who we are. If we dared to speak the truth, it was called hate speech. And our values were labeled shameful. That's when everything we care about fell apart. We surrendered our borders, our paychecks, and our courage. Our patriotism was called toxic. Men could beat up women and win medals.

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Offer details apply. Dr. Davis, what do I do? John, she needs an abortion or she's going to die from the pregnancy. Sorry, that's not happening. What are you doing? Who are you? I'm your Republican congressman. Now that we're in charge, we ban abortion. No exceptions. You can't do this.

You stay. I won the last election. So it's my decision. But don't worry. You can still have children. Just not with her. This is so egregious. It was paid for by a PAC supporting Kamala Harris called the Progressive Action Fund. And every word of that is a lie. Even in the deepest red states that have passed far more restrictive abortion laws, every single one allows an abortion to save the life of the mother. Every single one. And any state that tried to pass a law that didn't allow that would see its law overturned immediately by the U.S. Supreme Court. This is such a lie. Maybe I'm just naive, Steve Bannon, but there used to be a day where if you told a little fib in a campaign ad, you'd probably get called out on it. It might be a story.

But this kind of fear mongering used to be condemned by left and right. This is outrageous. But abortion is her greatest hope. That's effective. That spot's an effective spot. They're going to keep using it because it's effective. They don't care about the rules they put. They did that. You know, they put her on Saturday Night Live when Lauren Roberts swore he wasn't going to do that to violate the FCC. They removed a president of the United States. They removed Biden, who was their nominee, in a period of a week because they knew he couldn't beat Trump. There's no law they won't break.

There's no customer tradition they won't go against. And so, yes, the abortion issue has been one of the axes in the space that they use to get young women to rally to their cause. And it's been effective. President Trump has, I think, done what everybody planned to do, is have it turned back to the states. And even conservative states like Kansas and Ohio are going to not have the types of right to life that a lot of the right to life members thought conservative states will have, that's fine. But it's, they, they've, they've been very effective on this plant, it's coloring outside the lines. Remember, this is raw politics about power and control. And they're, they're, they don't have, their rule book is victory. Their rule book is winning. And in prison in Danbury, there were a bunch of men there that had been praying the rosary in front

of abortion clinics. They had sentenced, I think, two or three 70s. This is not a camp. They're in a federal prison, low security, but these low security prisons are tough. They're not in a camp. They sentenced, I think, two or three women in their 70s while I was there. Tina Peters got sentenced to nine years. She's a gold star mother. Look, they play smash mouth. They understand Nancy Pelosi and these people understand what power is, and they know how to use power. And the Republican Party has had a very tradition of kind of played by, you know,

Dudley Duret, Mitt Romney, Markeia Queensborough, and that's one of the reasons they hate Trump. Trump and the people around him, they've got some brawlers. We're not going to back down, but that ad, as horrible as it is, I'm sure it's quite effective. Yeah, the reports are that it's allegedly swaying independent male voters by some decent margin, as untrue as it is. I want to talk about the both sides life that's resurrected now in the final days. They must have some good data on this. Barack Obama got out there and spread this. Listen to Obama in SOT7. Maybe you're Muslim American or Jewish American,

and you are heartbroken and furious about the ongoing bloodshed in the Middle East and worried about the rise of anti-Semitism, why would you place your faith in somebody who instituted a so-called Muslim ban? Who sat down for pleasantries with Holocaust deniers who said that there were very fine people on both sides of a white supremacist rally. Now he knows better. It's just, I don't know, am I being Pollyanna thinking that the former president of the United States

wouldn't be, like shouldn't be openly lying about something that's been fact checked by a left leaning organization like Snopes. There's zero chance he didn't know or wasn't told that that's a blatant lie. So it's just all about, as you point out, victory. And by the way, like, is Team Red going to do this at this level, at this egregious level about Kamala? Because I'll tell you, just thinking about my remarks tonight at the Trump rally, I kind of decided I would stick to the truth. I thought that might be an important thing to do. Well, I think the truth about her and about their policies are blatant. But remember, we fought wars in Iraq on weapons of mass destruction. We've never really investigated or put on trial the people that brought on the 2008 financial crash. You had

Bernie Madoff, but he was marginalia to what the crises were. They're lying to you all the time. Look at what they did to the parents to try to make sure there wasn't pornography in the school library or make sure their kids were getting education and not having DEI and all this. They'll lie to your face right there. Obama, sit right there and lie to your face. But the reason it doesn't resonate, and I think it's not resonating, is that they also understand, African-American and black men particularly, understand that this crowd allowed 10 to 15 million illegal alien migrants into the country and Wall Street that supported it are not going to,

they're not going to, Trump is going to have the biggest battle in American domestic history to deport anybody. And the black and Hispanic community understand that it's driven down their wages. It's made their life tougher. It's made their communities more crime ridden. So no, there's nothing the other side won't do to take and hold power, including looking right in the eye and lying about it. So no, it doesn't shock me to the degree it's effective. I think we come back and that's why I would like the closing message. I'm glad you're talking about that is to be quite focused on just pure economics right

now and the lived experience of working class and middle class people, because I think that's the biggest winner we've got. The New York Times may be doing a long piece on you and election denialism. I wonder whether they do a long piece on Jamie Raskin and his plans for denying the election if Trump wins, because he's making it really explicit. He went on Bill Maher this weekend. And here's what he said in Stop 14. When I say we will support a free and fair election, no, we're not going to allow them to steal it in the states or steal it at the Department of Justice or steal it with any

other election official in the country. If it's a free and fair election, we will do what we've always done. We will honor it. So finally. Yeah, and that is the Democrats history. They honor it. That is the big difference between the parties. He sounds a little stop the steely, Steve. Your prediction, if Trump does pull this off, what the Democrats will do to him between November 5th and mid January?

Well, Bill Maher in that interview was goading him on saying it's not good you need to be i need to be more specific we need to know exactly how you're going to basically not allow trump to return to the white house in rolling stone magazine nancy plosy gave an interview which she said three times her purpose in life is to make sure trump is not re-elected and never sets foot again in the white house they're obsessed with him because they understand he's led a populist revolt that, quite frankly, Megan, has united disparate characters like Elon Musk, Robert Kennedy Jr., Danica Patrick, Tulsi Gabbard, Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon, Megan Kelly, all of whom have never agreed on anything, right? Totally. They were all united in kind of this. Think about it. They united us and many others that, you know, David Sachs and other people that have never been part of this

have united us in an effort to understand we're trying to save the country. So Raskin and Raskin and Mark Elias can't be dismissed. Mark Elias is the toughest election lawyer in the country. He set up an office in Las Vegas. That's how serious they are. Jamie Raskin is a brilliant constitutional lawyer. He has already said on many occasions, he will not, if they take the House by one seat, which is possible because the House is in the balance,

they will not certify Trump on January 6th. They will say, hey, look, we had a committee, that committee for two years. The Republicans never refuted and never dismissed the committee. They talked about it on Fox, but they never took action on it. Peter Navarro went to prison. Steve Bannon went to prison. We sent criminal indictments over on Trump. Three of those went to a grand jury. He's indicted. They're all insurrectionists and we're not going to seat him. And they're going to try to get a contingent election, set aside the election tomorrow.

They're already drafting. Andy Biggs told us last week on the show that he knows Democrats are already drafting articles of impeachment on Trump in case they take the House by one seat. So this is trench warfare. People understand tomorrow is everything and we have to win. But don't think we're back in the 70s or 80s that there'll be congratulations, we'll get you next time. No. They're going to fight this every day with Mark Elias, the Culinary Union, their operatives, the media, MSNBC, Jim Rutenberger, and much, much more. And, you know, billionaires, Reid Hoffman, underwriting things, fight it all the way through.

The new Congress being seated on January 3rd, fight it on January 6th. And even after he takes the oath of office in January, don't think it's going to get any better. There's not going to be any, oh, you know, honeymoon and 100 days, nothing like that. Every day is going to be a struggle. And one side is going to win and one side is going to lose. And what they hope to do is dispirit us and just say, we can't take any more. I want to go play tennis or golf or pickleball or something. The side that wins here

is the side that doesn't quit. If we don't quit, we'll win. And tomorrow is a big benchmark on how prepared we are to do the work that's necessary by working class people in this country to make sure you send a message to these folks that, hey, under no circumstances, whether I'm black, Hispanic, Arab American, wherever you're Jewish, a white working class that, hey, we're going to take our country back. A woman on your point of the just unique group that Trump has managed to assemble to help him in this next term if he wins it. The the great Nicole Shanahan, who was RFKJ's running mate, has put out yet another spectacular ad. God, she's good. And it features some of that cast. Take a look at this in SOT1.

What will we do with this moment? How will we be remembered? Look at the opportunities before us. This election really isn't about the left versus the right. It's about we the people choosing our government and the choice between freedom versus tyranny. Nobody has a chronic disease burden like we have. Why are we allowing this to happen to our children? Ultimately, the only thing that will save our country is if we choose to love our kids more than we hate each other. What is going on here is deeper than politics. It is deeply spiritual. We are being called to rise above the hatred and the fear and the evil.

We need to remember above and beyond that we must love our neighbors, that we must treat other people as we hope to be treated. You want to be a rebel? You want to be a hippie? You want to stick it to the man? Show up on your college campus and try calling yourself a conservative. America is going to reach heights that it has never seen before. The future is going to be amazing. Don't you want healthy children? Don't you want a president that's going to make America healthy again?

I come to you today as a former Democrat. I will be a first-time Trump voter tonight. I'm back in rock and roll. Oh, oh, oh. I'm back in rock and roll. Oh, oh, oh. Oh, oh, oh. I'm back in rock and roll. Oh, oh, oh.

Oh, oh, oh. Oh, oh, oh. The people dreamed this country, and it's the people who are making America great again. Welcome back. Extraordinary. So well done. Very moving, Steve, and perfectly captures some of what we could get, what could stages. You see the people, Nicole Shanahan, incredibly, incredibly just talented. The people are coming together, supporting the MAGA movement, the America First Movement, the American Citizens First Movement, and President Trump are extraordinary. It's the very beginning stage. We want all of your audience to join. This is going to be historic, and we've got so much more work to do. I'm just glad to be in the

street fighter element of that and couldn't be more honored. Oh, and we're so glad to have you. I'm so glad to see you free and sharing your lessons with us and your tactics. All the best, Steve. We'll talk after it's all over. Thanks, Megan. And who knows when that will be. I'll see you after Pittsburgh tonight and all through Election Day. Thanks for listening to The Megyn Kelly Show. No BS, no agenda, and no fear.