Less than five days before the 2024 election, journalist Megyn Kelly thinks the biggest bombshells of this campaign are still yet to drop.
‘I don’t think we’ve gotten the October surprise yet,’ Kelly, host of The Megyn Kelly Show podcast, told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview on the eve of the vote.
‘I bet we’re still going to get something big dropped on us by somebody,’ she predicted and pointed to an ‘increasingly desperate’ Harris campaign, which has now begun comparing Trump to some of history’s most notorious madmen.
‘They’re calling Trump a Nazi [and Joseph] Goebbels. They’re calling him a fascist, Mao, Stalin,’ Kelly said. ‘What would you do if you thought Hitler was about to get elected? It’s really kind of dangerous, frankly.’
Kelly, 53, has long been at the center of American politics, first as a Fox News Channel reporter and then as a host for the network’s top-rated primetime show ‘The Kelly File.’
After a brief stint at NBC News, Kelly launched her podcast – now, one of the most popular in the country – once again putting her in the middle of it all.
On election night, Megyn will be hosting a live panel of experts, including the Mail’s Maureen Callahan and prominent conservative pundits like The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro.
All of Kelly’s experience suggests to her that this wild 2024 ride is far from over.
‘It’s probably going to get uglier and wackier and weirder,’ she said. ‘There’s probably going to be a few more women coming out accusing Donald Trump of things because the Democrats love that old chestnut.’
Kelly famously confronted then-candidate Trump in 2015 over his treatment of women during a Fox News-hosted Republican primary debate. After the event, Trump lashed out at Kelly in a bizarre rant. But now the veteran journalist has made clear that she’s moved on and even recently told listeners that she voted early for the former president.
However, despite her hope for a second Trump term, Kelly admitted to the Mail that she has no idea how this election will turn out.
‘I’ve read everyone and everything. I am desperate to know. I can’t wait to know, but we can’t know,’ she said.
For one, Kelly is hesitant to put her faith in the public opinion polling.
‘Are the polls still wrong about Donald Trump?’ she questioned. ‘Are they still undercounting Trump voters?’
‘Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was going to win. The prediction there was like 93 percent, 98 percent.’
In 2024, Kelly says there’s reason to suspect that the pollsters may finally be getting it right.
‘Are they still undercounting Trump voters?’ she mused. ‘There’s a lot of reason to believe they’re not, that they actually have fixed it.’
Many of the Americans who came out for Trump in 2016 hadn’t voted in prior elections, so they were overlooked by pollsters who seek the opinion of individuals who are most likely to go to the ballots.
Kelly suggests that now there may be no such thing as a hidden Trump supporter: ‘Trump got them to register [to vote] and he got them to vote. They’re all baked into the cake now, so the undercounted Trump vote is no longer a thing. This is a theory.’
Putting the polling aside, Kelly sees Tuesday night playing out in two possible ways – either America knows the winner fairly quickly or election day turns into election days.
‘If it does come down to Pennsylvania, it’s going to be a long week’, Kelly said.
There is a scenario in which Trump and Harris split the nation’s electoral college votes and it all comes down to the Keystone State.
Under Pennsylvania state law local election officials are prohibited from counting mail-in ballots until 7:00 am on Election Day, whereas other states allow these votes to be tabulated in advance, speeding the final tally.
On the other hand, Megyn can also foresee a route to a quick call on November 5.
‘I think there’s a good chance we might know on election night’, she said.
If Trump carries the Sun Belts states (Nevada and Arizona in the West and North Carolina and Georgia in the East) and also picks up Michigan and Wisconsin, then, Kelly believes, there may be a prompt resolution.
It’s a completely plausible scenario, according to Kelly, who cited polling showing Trump ahead in Georgia – and reports that the Harris hurriedly pulled their campaign ads from North Carolina this week.
Plus, she contends, Trump has the wind at his back.
‘If you look at momentum, at least as of right this second, it has been behind Trump over the past 10 days… if you were Trump, you’d want the election to happen tomorrow.’
And President Biden’s comments on Wednesday night, referring to Republican voters as ‘garbage,’ were another stroke of luck for Trump’s campaign.
Kelly thinks Trump’s response to the Biden gaffe – appearing at a Green Bay, Wisconsin rally in a reflective vest and sitting in the passenger seat of the garbage truck emblazoned with a Trump-Vance banner – was very impactful.
‘He’s taking himself from a one-of-a-kind candidate to an American icon with these images. Great entertainment, even better politics.’
However, now, in these closing days of this race, Kelly has a word of warning to Trump.
‘No more with the surrogates, no comics, no bombastic donors. It’s not worth it,’ she said, in a clear reference to the controversial speakers at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday.
As for Democrats – Kelly doesn’t have much help to offer.
Even Harris’s most effective surrogates, Barack and Michelle Obama, have ‘lost their fastball,’ she said – and dismissed the Obamas’ recent scolding of black men, who may be abandoning the Democratic Party in historic numbers.
‘The country’s become anti-man,’ Kelly said. ‘The messaging around men has been absolutely disrespectful and dehumanizing for a long time now, and who’s doing it? The Democrat Party.’
‘I don’t think anyone’s going to vote for Kamala because they’ve been shamed by Barack about their alleged secret sexism or racism against her or shamed by Michelle that it’s not standing up for your woman’s rights.’
