‘Working class knows you’re a phony’: Megyn Kelly says low-income voters rejected Zohran Mamdani

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Megyn Kelly torched Zohran Mamdani on 'The Megyn Kelly Show' on Wednesday following his victory in the New York City mayoral race.

The host shredded New York City’s newly minted mayor-elect, calling him a “phony” and insisting the working class isn’t fooled by his socialist spiel.

Megyn Kelly attacks Zohran Mamdani’s claims of working-class support

“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 snapped.

“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 bulls**t because the working class never buys bulls**t. They can’t afford to.”

Her rant came after exit polls showed that independent candidate Andrew Cuomo actually beat Mamdani among New Yorkers making under $30,000, pulling 48% of the low-income vote to Mamdani’s 42%, according to CNN. Kelly argued that real working people are too busy hustling to swallow feel-good campaign rhetoric.

“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 said.

“They cannot worry about bulls**t,” she continued. “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!” 

Charles Payne and Van Jones criticize Zohran Mamdani’s victory

Fox Business host Charles Payne shared a similar critique. On 'America Reports,' he chalked up Mamdani’s victory to “pampered” young elites rather than the struggling masses the socialist claims to represent.

“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,” Payne said. “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.”

Even CNN’s Van Jones had notes for Mamdani after the mayor-elect’s victory speech Tuesday night. Mamdani spent more than 20 minutes shouting through his remarks, which Jones said felt somewhat off-brand for the self-styled man of the people.

“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. “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.”

Mamdani is a proud socialist who rode into office promising to shake up the system with a hard-left wish list that included higher taxes on the rich, frozen rents, free buses, city-owned grocery stores, and free childcare, according to his campaign website.

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