Podcast host Megyn Kelly criticized MSNBC hosts Jen Psaki and Rachel Maddow for their comments mocking Virginia voters for expressing concern about illegal immigration on Tuesday.
Kelly made the criticism over Psaki and Maddow discussing the results of the Virginia primary election, in which Psaki was perplexed as to why immigration was “the No. 1 issue” among voters in an exit survey. Maddow joked that Virginia “does have a border with West Virginia,” calling it a “very contested area.”
“You’ve got three of the faves,” Kelly said in describing Psaki and Maddow’s segment. “You’ve got Joy Reid, Rachel Maddow, and Jen Psaki scoffing, I mean, just sneering at this notion that Virginia voters are going to vote based on immigration or care about immigration.”
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Kelly argued that Virginia voters were right to be concerned about illegal immigration, citing the recent news of a 14-year-old girl in Virginia who was sexually assaulted by an illegal immigrant from Venezuela. Kelly also pointed to the death of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student in Georgia who was killed by a Venezuelan immigrant arrested in 2022 for illegally crossing the border.
“Her family is still mourning,” Kelly said. “That grave is freshly dug, and they are out there sneering about how migrants don’t commit crime.”
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Psaki and Maddow’s comments also drew the attention of 2024 independent presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr., who said “the Democratic Party elite” were ridiculing concerned voters. He argued that members of the press, and politicians, ought to listen to voters instead of mocking them.
Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) and Gov. Jim Justice (R-WV) have also knocked the MSNBC hosts for their comments against Virginia voters. The representative introduced the Laken Riley Act in Congress on Tuesday to press for stricter laws against illegal immigration and invited Riley’s parents to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech, though Collins said they “understandably” declined.
