Conservative commentator Megyn Kelly said she is voting for former president Donald Trump because he — unlike Kamala Harris — will protect women by curbing illegal immigration and by keeping males out of women’s sports.
“He got mocked by the Left for saying he would be a protector of women. He will be a protector of women, and it’s why I’m voting for him,” Kelly said of Trump on Monday night. “He will close the border. He will keep the boys out of girls’ sports and where they don’t belong.”
Kelly’s support of Trump regarding his protection of women is notable, considering she pressed him, during a Republican primary debate in the 2016 presidential election cycle, on his past comments about women. The two have since repaired their relationship, and the former Fox News host now publicly supports the GOP presidential nominee and his allies.
Last week, she criticized Trump’s “bro-tastic” Madison Square Garden rally, saying it catered more to men than women. Her Monday-night speech was mostly addressed to female voters.
Kelly cited illegal immigration as one of the main reasons she is backing Trump, explaining that young girls such as Laken Riley and Jocelyn Nungaray, murdered by illegal immigrants, would be alive today if the border were closed.
“President Trump closed the border. Kamala Harris opened it, by choice,” Kelly told a packed arena in Pittsburgh, Pa. “It wasn’t accidental. She said it would be humane. That’s what she and her boss believed. Tell that to Laken Riley’s family. There was nothing humane about it. He closed it, they opened it. It was an intentional choice, and there’s no reason not to believe they won’t do it again.”
Kelly then spoke about how transgenderism has negatively affected women’s sports, one of her top political issues. She mentioned Payton McNabb, who suffered traumatic brain injury and partial paralysis after being hit in the face by a volleyball spiked by a transgender-identifying male athlete.
“Kamala Harris looks at her and says, ‘Be kind, suck it up, and that’s what’s right.’ Why do our girls have to face brain damage in order to be kind to boys who want to invade their sports?” Kelly asked.
Citing Harris’s efforts to provide taxpayer-funded “gender transition” surgeries to inmates, Kelly noted that transgenderism is also having an impact on women’s prisons.
“She changed the law in California to make sure that taxpayers would pay for their sex change operations,” Kelly continued. “She was not just following the law, she changed the law. President Trump will stop it.”
Kelly went on to say that Trump, in addition to protecting women, will look out for the “forgotten boys” and “forgotten men” of the working class.
She added that she opposes the “Left’s version of masculinity” and slammed Harris’s husband, Douglas Emhoff, who was recently accused of publicly assaulting his former girlfriend in 2012. Despite the abuse allegations, Emhoff has faced virtually no media backlash.
“I’m not into their version of toxic masculinity or new masculinity. I prefer the old version, and I prefer a president who understands how to be strong and how to fight,” Kelly said before concluding, “I hope all of you do what I did last week — vote Trump and get ten friends to vote Trump, too.”
Earlier in the day, Kelly teased on her own show that she would be stumping for Trump in the evening. During the episode, she said it was “absolutely essential that he wins this election.” Kelly’s comments marked the first time she told her audience whom she was voting for.