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Published On: Wed, Jun 10th, 2026

Megyn Kelly on LA Mayor Race: “It Smells To High Heaven,” “It Just All Feels So Hopeless Sometimes”

Megyn Kelly is joined by Buckley Carlson, writer and media strategist, to discuss evidence of potential election “cheating” in Los Angeles and throughout California, whether an outsider candidate like Spencer Pratt can overcome the establishment system, the lying tells of Gavin Newsom, and more.

MEGYN KELLY: I was thinking about this today. I’m like, you could call it fraud. I think a more accurate word would just be cheating. Yes, absolutely. I don’t think they’re actively fooling anyone in the way of fraud would, you know, yes, they’re just cheating. That’s how it looks to me. And there are all sorts of reports of how Steve Hilton said this yesterday. And he was 100% right. We went back and fact checked in my team. Did you know you have to get your ballot in by voting day, postmarked by voting day. We knew that that’s an outrage. You don’t actually have it have to have it postmarked. You can write the date that you put it in the mail on the exterior. So you could have voting days Tuesday, you could have a Thursday postmark, but as long as you’ve written on it, Tuesday, whatever voting day was, they’ll accept it. I’ve looked at the law myself. It’s insane. And there are all sorts of reports of them going to these Democrat groups are so well organized going to homeless people. You don’t actually have a signature, you can have an X or a line for your signature as long as you have a witness who says they saw you sign it. And who are these witnesses? You know, it’s like basically acorn. Those remember that group? It’s groups like that. So there that’s why in my opinion, you see all these votes coming in that I could buy Democrat, the Democrat overtakes the Republicans. It’s California. It’s LA. I don’t buy Nithya Raman way more than Karen Bass, their existing mayor, who by the way, happens to be black and a woman too. I mean, Nithya is Indian. I just don’t, I don’t buy that. No one even knew who that was a month ago. She cried on election night because she lost and she knew it. Yes. So they, we know what they’re doing. And then you have people there’s no proof. You know, what’s her name? Kristen Welker was like to Trump. There’s no proof. There’s not going to be proof this close to the actual vote. Like we actually need to do an investigation. Look at the votes. The ones that are getting rejected right now in LA, we’re told are the Republican votes for Pratt, where those, the volunteers are triple checking those signatures just to make sure it was actually you. All these Republicans online saying they got theirs back like a call from somebody saying, didn’t check out. It’s just, it’s, it smells to high heaven. BUCKLEY CARLSON: Yes, it does. No, it’s disgusting. And they’ve had, there’s no defense of it. That’s why I don’t understand. There’s no defense of it. And Trump has power and they have both houses of Congress. They should be able to do something about it. Plus they have an attorney general in California. Why isn’t he held to account? KELLY: Well, they’re looking, the US attorney is looking into it right now, though, not with a lot of cooperation. The state officials don’t want the interfering in their election processes. Can you blame them? It’s been working out so well for them. They’re like, stay out of it. This is about states rights. CARLSON: Suddenly federalists. KELLY: They just have to leave. And even Steve Hilton now has officially been declared one of the last two standing on the gubernatorial race, which is great. Love Steve. They’re not going to vote for Steve. There’s just no way they’re going to vote for him over Xavier Becerra. And even if Spencer Pratt had made it into the final two, would that machine have allowed him to beat Karen Bass? CARLSON: Of course not. KELLY: It’s just all feel so hopeless sometimes. CARLSON: And so manufactured. And they’re not even artful about it. I mean, I remember corruption or stealing used to be, you know, subterfuge and — KELLY: The good old days. CARLSON: Right. KELLY: There was a beauty to it. CARLSON: Partially plausible. Now, none of it’s plausible. People are getting dispirited over it. And so I don’t I don’t know what the answer is, but someone had better do something. KELLY: I think you got to do what you did and leave California. That’s your that’s where you were raised. CARLSON: You think they’d start paying attention at some point. You’re right. And California had had an influx of people throughout its entire history up until covid. Then it had this massive exodus and they’re losing tons of money and. They’re going to be suffering at some point, you would think the government, I mean, who extracts all this wealth and spends it on pet projects. KELLY: You would think. I mean, as they say, the problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people’s money, but they seem to really want us to elevate their outgoing governor to president. They the Democrats are open minded to that, too. No one’s saying on their team like, what do you mean he bankrupted California? They have homeless people everywhere. He ruined two of the top greatest cities in the world, San Francisco and L.A., which is burned down to its dubs in huge parts of it. CARLSON: Crushed people during covid. Engaged in some of the most absurd COVID policies anywhere. KELLY: Yes. CARLSON: Actually, he should be held to account. KELLY: The homelessness and the crime alone should be a deal breaker, but it’s not. I don’t like the hairline can only take one so far, or are we kidding ourselves about that? CARLSON: He’s actually Gavin Newsom is the perfect candidate, though, if you think about it, because he’s such a chameleon and has no principles whatsoever. He’s reasonably articulate. He’s reasonably handsome. I mean, he knows his way around a microphone and television prompter, obviously.

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