Megyn Kelly just made one of the most stunning announcements of her career.
Nobody saw this coming.
And Megyn Kelly revealed the one thing that will make her run for President.
Kelly unleashes fury over AOC’s attack on young men
Conservative commentator Megyn Kelly delivered a blistering response to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after the New York Democrat blamed Republicans for radicalizing young men during a CNN town hall.
Kelly began her podcast with three words that captured her fury.
"Eff that woman," Kelly declared.¹
The podcast host’s rage stemmed from AOC’s appearance the night before alongside Sen. Bernie Sanders at a CNN town hall focused on the government shutdown.
During the event, Ocasio-Cortez accused Republicans of targeting young men with dangerous messaging.
"They are able to radicalize and target and exploit a generation of young boys in particular away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires a domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them," Ocasio-Cortez claimed.²
Kelly spent nearly her entire show dismantling that statement piece by piece.
"There was indeed one party that radicalized today’s young men, and it was yours, madam," Kelly fired back.³
"It was yours. It was yours who blamed them for literally everything just because they were born and born male."
The former Fox News anchor didn’t hold back as she accused Democrats of years of demonizing men.
"The nerve. Your side demonized them at every turn and laughed when they ever dared to express any actual pain at the circumstances that they were forced into through no fault of their own," Kelly stated.⁴
She called AOC’s attempt to blame Republicans for what the Left has done "absolutely disgusting."
Kelly also defended Republicans for standing up for young men rather than attacking them.
"You are absolutely disgusting to now try to turn it around and say it is the Republican Party, which came to their rescue, that quote ‘radicalized them,’" Kelly explained.⁵
"You don’t know any young Republican men," she added.
Kelly threatens 2028 presidential run to block AOC
The podcast host then addressed rumors that Ocasio-Cortez might launch a presidential campaign in 2028.
Kelly made a stunning promise to her audience.
"If she runs for president, I might run," Kelly announced.⁶
"Honestly, I’ll find my way into the ticket somehow," she continued.
"There’s no way this person can run for president or be president. No, no, no. No," Kelly declared.
Kelly’s willingness to enter politics just to stop Ocasio-Cortez shows how seriously conservatives view the Squad leader’s growing influence.
She sees AOC as the face of everything wrong with the radical Left’s approach to governing.
The timing of Kelly’s comments is significant given AOC’s increasing profile within Democrat circles.
At just 36 years old, Ocasio-Cortez is widely viewed as the heir to the political movement Bernie Sanders built over the past decade.
The two appeared together Wednesday night taking questions from CNN’s Kaitlan Collins about the government shutdown.
Throughout the 90-minute town hall, Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders echoed each other’s talking points while attacking Republicans and defending Democrats’ decision to keep the government closed over healthcare demands.
Their performance drew mockery from the White House’s RapidResponse47 account, which live-posted reactions calling them "losers" and "not serious people."⁷
Kelly defends men from trans ideology attacks
Kelly saved some of her harshest criticism for AOC’s comments about transgender issues.
"It’s your side that wants to take non-trans children… and literally give them double mastectomies so that you can feel better about who you are!" Kelly exclaimed.⁸
"The Republicans are standing up for minors, who… deserve to have children and not be sterilized at age 14 by puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones," she continued.
Kelly rejected AOC’s framing that Republicans are dehumanizing transgender people.
"So you can take a seat on lecturing the right half of the country on the dehumanization of so-called trans people. How dare you?" Kelly demanded.⁹
The fight over children and gender ideology cuts to the core of the cultural battle between Left and Right.
AOC claims Republicans want to dehumanize transgender people. Kelly sees it differently – she’s watching Democrats push experimental medical procedures on confused teenagers.
Parents across America share Kelly’s alarm about what’s happening in schools and pediatric clinics.
AOC blames Republicans for what Democrats actually did to young men
Here’s what Kelly nailed about AOC’s attack – Democrats spent years telling young men they were the problem with America.
The Left pushed "toxic masculinity" as an explanation for everything wrong in society. Schools medicated boys at record rates for acting like boys. College admissions became hostile territory for male students. Universities celebrated declining male enrollment without asking why it happened.
Young men watched all this and made a choice. They didn’t get "radicalized" by Republicans – they got tired of Democrats attacking them for existing.
The election results prove Kelly’s point. Young men voted for Trump and Republican candidates in numbers that stunned political analysts. Hispanic men, Black men, white men – Democrats lost ground across every group.
AOC’s response? Double down and blame Republicans for manipulating these voters.
That’s not analysis – that’s denial. Democrats refuse to admit their anti-male messaging pushed an entire generation away from their party. They’d rather accuse Republicans of running some kind of brainwashing operation than look in the mirror.
The CNN town hall showed Democrats learned nothing from getting crushed at the ballot box. They still think young men are the problem instead of their policies attacking masculinity.
Kelly sees where this leads if AOC gains more power. The war on traditional male identity will get worse, not better. She’s drawing a line – if AOC runs for President, Kelly may find a way to stop her.
¹ Megyn Kelly, The Megyn Kelly Show, SiriusXM, October 16, 2025.
² Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, CNN Town Hall with Bernie Sanders, October 15, 2025.
³ Megyn Kelly, The Megyn Kelly Show, SiriusXM, October 16, 2025.
⁴ Ibid.
⁵ Ibid.
⁶ Ibid.
⁷ Rapid Response 47, Twitter/X, October 16, 2025.
⁸ Megyn Kelly, The Megyn Kelly Show, SiriusXM, October 16, 2025.
⁹ Ibid.
