Megyn Kelly on California primary mail-in voting: “If they can't get off their fat asses and get to election polling stations on Election Day, then we don't want you, OK? We don't want your vote.”
Kelly: “I have no faith in the vote counters. I have no faith in these California Democrat politicians and their machines not to try to cheat and to exploit that mail-in balloting”
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Megyn Kelly on California primary mail-in voting: "If they can't get off their fat asses and get to election polling stations on Election Day, then we don't want you, OK? We don't want your vote."
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From the June 5, 2026, edition of SiriusXM's The Megyn Kelly Show
MEGYN KELLY (HOST): The weekend is near, but the news is not slowing down, except in California where the vote count from Tuesday's primaries isn't anywhere close to wrapping up. This is ridiculous. The only thing that has changed is that the numbers keep getting worse for Republicans, and somehow the number of votes still outstanding to be counted continues to go up. I guess maybe this is because they keep receiving imaginary new ballots. No, I mean, actual new ballots. I don't know. Today's Friday. So I would presume that the ballot inflow should be kind of over since everyone there should be mailing it for the most part from California to California, and they had to be postmarked by Tuesday.
But, yeah, the updates are uniformly bad for Spencer Pratt and Steve Hilton. What a shock. And no one's going to trust this. No one is going to trust this outcome if those two are eliminated from the general election, given the leads that we've seen. I'm going to — when the panel's here yesterday, we didn't get to it with Maureen. Today I am going to get to the actual numbers as we know them so far and get on the record as we go into the weekend with where we think the vote is. If you look at the betting markets — and they don't know anything more than we do, I mean, well, generally they don't — they're all now voting against Spencer Pratt and Steve Hilton even making it into the top two. They don't believe at all that Californians are going to let that happen in one way, shape, or form.
So what we're seeing is the Republicans do well on the day of, and then we slowly watch their leads evaporate as the massive mail-in vote from more left leaning districts gets tabulated. That's such a nice insurance policy, isn't it? Such a nice insurance policy. Don't you worry if you don't make it in the day-of vote, we got you covered. I mean, we saw that here in Connecticut where there was a film of these Democrat operatives literally stuffing mailboxes full of ballots that they'd managed to get their hands on, to try to get that in there. Let's shove it in there.
And it just undermines the faith and integrity of elections to allow this kind of voting. I don't care how convenient you want to make it for people. Do we really want to make it that convenient? I mean these are lazy ass people. If they can't get off their fat asses and get to election polling stations on election day, then we don't want you, OK? We don't want your vote. Who gives a shit about you? You're too lazy. You're too busy, sure, to make it down to the polling station on election day. Then get out. Goodbye. You don't get to vote. That's how it always has been. Why wasn't that system OK? Because we needed to widen the field so we could get people too lazy to get down there to have their ballot counted? I mean, it's just absurd. If you don't prioritize the vote, your vote shouldn't be prioritized.
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Incumbent Mayor, Karen Bass, she's made it. How can we help the Californians? We can't. And honestly, we shouldn't. She's moving on. You remember, it's like the top two get to move on. If somebody got 50% or more, they'd win. That's not happening. So we expected that there'd be top two, and the top two move on to the general election in November, and she's made it. Her place is secure. You people are gluttons for punishment. And now Spencer Pratt might not be.
Again, back to the betting markets. Kalshi betting that Nithya Raman will make it over Bass. They say she's got about an 80% chance to be the candidate to take on Karen Bass. At noon on the day after the election, it was Pratt who had a 65% plus chance to prevail.
But of course what was happening — and again, the betting markets, it's not the same as a poll, it's like how people are reading the data so far — but they're seeing what we're seeing, that it's an incredibly slow vote count and that miraculously, they all seem to be going for the most outlandish, outrageous, unlikable Democrats possible. I mean, just no one's going to have confidence in these results if they squeeze out, especially in the gubernatorial race, the guy who's been in number one all along and now doesn't even make it?
I don't think it's going to happen. I think Steve Hilton will be one of the final two, but I don't trust these people. I have no faith in them. I have no faith in the vote counters. I have no faith in these California Democrat politicians and their machines not to try to cheat and to exploit that mail-in balloting. And I have only to await the forensic examination that I'm sure Trump is going to rain down on them because he's already talking about it.