‘Working Class Knows You’re A Phony!’: Megyn Kelly Says Low-Income Voters Aren’t Buying Mamdani’s ‘Bullsh*t’

This article, authored by Jason Cohen is republished under the Creative Commons “CC BY-NC-ND” license with permission from The Daily Caller News Foundation.

SiriusXM host Megyn Kelly said on “The Megyn Kelly Show” Wednesday that working class voters dislike Democratic New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and view him as fake.

Independent New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo won with New Yorkers making less than $30,000 against Mamdani by a 48% to 42% margin, according to a CNN exit poll. Kelly criticized Mamdani on her show for his victory speech, in which he thanked immigrants and said he would be a champion for the working class.

“Last night in his speech, he thanked every foreign nation known to man — like the Senegalese whatever, hot dog salesman, the Nepalese cab driver. That’s who he sees as his constituency,” Kelly said. “Meanwhile, he’s up there talking about how this is for the guys who’ve got the scars on their knuckles and the calluses on their hands. They voted against you, you cretin. They all voted against you. The working class can’t stand you. They’re not buying your bullshit because the working class never buys bullshit. They can’t afford to.”

“They actually have to struggle to put food on their tables and worry about their kids in school — and going to a school that’s safe and one that doesn’t have 45 different languages coming from the teachers because of the mandatory immigration laws we have now,” she added. “They cannot worry about bullshit. The working class did not vote for you. They know you’re a liar. And as I’ve been saying, a wolf in sheep’s clothing … The working class knows you’re a phony!”

Fox Business host Charles Payne stated on “America Reports” Wednesday that elite young people, rather than the working class, were the ones who supported Mamdani after they believed they could make six figures right out of college. “This was an election about pampered, the most elite, pampered, entitled folks out there, recent college grads who thought they would walk into a six-figure job when they moved to New York City, and they’re not. The poor people who are struggling to make a day-to-day overwhelmingly voted for Cuomo. That’s one of the ironies of this thing,” Payne said.

Mamdani spoke for over 20 minutes after winning the race on Tuesday, seeming to scream throughout and drawing criticism from CNN’s Van Jones afterward.

“I think his tone was sharp. I think he was using the microphone in a way that he was almost yelling. And that’s not the Mamdani that we’ve seen on TikTok and the great interviews and stuff like that,” Jones said on Tuesday. “So I felt like it was a little bit of a character switch here, where the warm, open, embracing guy that’s close to working people was not on stage tonight. And there was some other voice on stage … I think he missed an opportunity to open himself up tonight. And I think that that will probably cost him going forward.”

The mayor-elect is a socialist and ran on a platform of raising taxes on corporations and wealthy New Yorkers, freezing rents, free buses, city-owned grocery stores and free childcare, according to his campaign website.

Charlie Kirk, the late Turning Point USA founder, discussed the concept of “luxury beliefs,” which are elitist views that do not affect elites and hurt average Americans, during his last long-form interview. He noted that a large portion of people who support far-left policies are college students and recent graduates from the U.S.’ most elite universities.

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