Megyn Kelly calls out GOP for ‘liking to lose’ after Zohran Mamdani’s win

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Megyn Kelly unleashed a scathing critique of both the Republican and Democratic parties following the 2025 election results in New York City, New Jersey, and Virginia.

On 'The Megyn Kelly Show' aired Thursday, November 6, she argued that the outcome reflects broader failures and warned that the GOP must get its act together if it hopes to remain competitive.

Kelly described the election night as “a total and complete disaster.”

Megyn Kelly blasts GOP for ‘liking to lose’ after 2025 election defeats

Kelly says that while the states in question were blue, she is unconcerned with the partisan baseline because the margins were so large and Republicans lost across the board.

She writes: “The only good news is how radical the Democrats are and how Zohran Mamdani will now be the poster child for every Republican to use against his or her opponent. All Democrats will have to explain where they stand on Mamdani as he wrecks New York.”

Turning her fire on the Republican Party, Kelly says, “They like to lose. They enjoy when they are embattled, and in a losing position, and complaining. They love it.”

Kelly faults Republicans for devoting energy to infighting, “policing some young people’s group chat, what a podcast host said, and what the head of a think tank over the Heritage Foundation had to say.” She asserts that Republicans are weaker when their marquee figure, Donald Trump, is not on the ballot and argues that the party “doesn’t know how to win, doesn’t know who to run, and doesn’t know what to do when ‘daddy’s not there to fly them across the finish line.’”

Kelly emphasizes that Republicans should have focused on real issues: “people’s grocery bills are still high; they are still dealing with inflation; they are suffering. Focus on domestic policy and on making people’s lives better.”

Megyn Kelly says Zohran Mamdani’s victory shows Democrats ‘lost the working class’

Kelly accused Zohran Mamdani of “dropp[ing] the mask immediately with the hate he spewed after he won.”

She also said Mamdani “thanked every foreign nation known to man” in his acceptance speech and accused him of positioning himself as representing an immigrant-heavy constituency rather than working-class Americans.

Kelly claimed that Mamdani wants New York “to be a sanctuary for trans children,” citing his proposed $65 million budget for transgender procedures “on the taxpayer dime.” She sharply criticized the Democratic Party for enabling such a candidate to succeed, asserting that the working class will not buy “your bullshit” because they struggle to put food on the table and worry about multilingual teachers under mandatory immigration laws.

She lamented that the vote count was roughly one million for Mamdani and one million combined for Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa, arguing that Sliwa “f****d over New York by staying in the race” despite having no chance.

In New Jersey, Kelly described the race as a blowout for Democrats, with Mikie Sherrill defeating Republican Jack Ciattarelli by 13 points, despite polling that had suggested a much closer contest. She noted that Democrat Abigail Spanberger won the governorship convincingly, while Democrat Jay Jones defeated Republican incumbent Jason Miyares by six points.

Kelly also highlighted alleged texts from Jones in which he threatened Republican children and boasted that Virginia voters accepted him regardless. She stated that while a small portion of Virginians rejected Jones, the majority did not.

She concluded by calling on Republicans to “get off your couches and get out there. Work on candidate quality.”