Megyn Kelly sarcastically suggests Candace Owens for next Harvard president

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: In light of Claudine Gay resigning as the president of Harvard University, conservative political commentator and podcaster Megyn Kelly has suggested the name of Candace Owens, as a dig at her television frenemy, reported the New York Post.

Gay resigned on January 2 as a result of mounting pressure over her handling of antisemitism on campus as the Israel-Gaza war raged on.

She was further accused of plagiarizing passages from her doctoral dissertation in 1997, according to the publication. Although no longer the president, Gay remains at Harvard as a faculty.

Many suggested that the campaign to see Gay removed was racially motivated, as she happened to be the first black president of Harvard. Taking to X, author Marc Lamont Hill wrote, "The next president of Harvard University MUST be a Black woman."

It was responding to this tweet that the host of 'The Megyn Kelly Show' quipped at Owens, saying that the conservative black pundit who supported Donald Trump, “should be back from maternity leave in a couple months.”

The feud between Megyn Kelly and Candace Owens

Back in October 2023, Kelly and Owens disagreed online on whether Harvard students who were members of campus groups that blamed Israel for the October 7 Hamas attack should be blacklisted by companies from being hired.

The idea, which was originally floated by GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy, found no favor with Owens, who stated, "You know that many of those students are not out there because they want babies to be murdered."

Owens claimed that the college students were "stupid" and "young," and were “experimenting” with ideas as she had done when she was “radically pro-choice.”

“You are an adult woman who is advocating for their lives to be permanently pigeonholed because they have the wrong ideas which are likely being spoon-fed to them in their classrooms,” she wrote, addressing Kelly.

Kelly fired back at Owens, writing on X, "Being liberal is not the same as taking to the streets to cheer murdered babies and blame said murders on the victims. But you go ahead and hire as many of them as you want Candace.”

Candace Owens also fell out with Ben Shapiro

Owens, who is a commentator on the Daily Wire, was in the midst of a public disagreement with the co-founder of the organization, Ben Shapiro.

The two held conflicting views over Israel’s military response to the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023. It became public after an X user posted a video showing Shapiro criticizing Owens, saying, "I think her behavior during this has been disgraceful, without a doubt."

Later, when he invited her to quit her Daily Wire show, Owens called Shapiro “emotionally unhinged” in response.