Megyn Kelly thinks Michelle Obama may be launching 2024 run after former first lady appeared on popular podcast with nothing to promote: Says race would be ‘a whole new ballgame’ if she declared

Michelle Obama could be preparing to take over from Joe Biden and run for president, Megyn Kelly speculates.

The radio host told her listeners that the former first lady’s attack on Donald Trump was “very interesting” and could change the direction of the election.

Kelly also highlighted Obama’s appearance on the On Purpose podcast despite having nothing to promote — and suggested she may have an as-yet-undisclosed motive.

In a conversation with Jay Shetty, Obama said she was “terrified” about the upcoming election. The thought of Trump regaining the presidency kept her awake at night.

She never used former President Donald Trump’s name, but told the On Purpose podcast that she feared Americans would take “democracy for granted.”

‘What will happen in the next elections? “I am terrified of what could happen because our leaders matter,” she said.

Kelly said on her self-titled show Tuesday that Obama was “a powerful Democratic weapon,” though she wondered what effect she could have.

“She wasn’t powerful enough to stop Trump in 2016. It’s not like she stayed quiet then. “She was very clear with him… It didn’t work,” she said.

‘I remain skeptical as to whether it will work this time as an expert.’

However, should the former first lady convince Biden that she had a better chance of beating Trump and that he should step aside for her, it would shake up the race.

“But if she runs, that’s a whole new story because there’s no doubt she’s more talented than Joe Biden politically. No doubt about it,” Kelly said.

Obama was the clear favorite among independents with 16 percent of respondents in a Daily Mail/JL Partners poll on who they would want to lead the Democratic ticket if Biden were to drop out.

Among registered Democrats, she was in second place with 17 percent, behind Vice President Kamala Harris with 22 percent.

Although Obama has no political experience, she was an enormously popular first lady. She ditched her Chicago background to graduate from Harvard Law School and work as a highly successful lawyer, with her intelligence and achievements likely to attract many Democratic and independent voters.

Kelly noted that Obama didn’t have an event or book she wanted to promote, so she must have done the interview because she had something to say.

She pointed to Obama’s comments about Trump as an insight into her intentions if she were to run for election or simply be a commentator.

‘Who we select speaks for us. Whoever holds the bully pulpit, it affects us in ways that I think people sometimes take for granted,” Obama said.

“You know, the fact that people think that the government, uhh, you know, doesn’t even do anything and I think, ‘oh my God, the government does everything for us.’

“And we cannot take this democracy for granted. And sometimes I’m afraid that’s true.’

Kelly said Obama focused too much on rhetoric, like when she said that ‘who speaks for us? Who has the bully chair?’

“That’s all her husband did. That’s all he had. He was a talented orator. No wonder she touts that as “the thing we need in a president.” Who cares?’ she said.

“It would be nice if you could speak, if you could rally America and its fans to support us, but that’s not really what we elect a president to be. We really want policies that make sense.

‘And then our second point: ‘a government does everything’ – ‘they do it all, everything, that’s what we need’. So that will be her platform.”

Before mentioning the 2024 election, Obama said she also feared war in “too many regions,” artificial intelligence, climate change, education and people spending too much time on their phones.

‘Are people going to vote and why don’t people vote?’ she also said.

“I mean, those are the things that keep me awake,” Obama said.

Her status as a former first lady, she said, also caused her more concern.

“There is such a thing as knowing too much,” Obama said. “And when you’re married to the president of the United States who knows everything about everything in the world, sometimes you just want to turn it off.”

“I don’t want to know what was in that folder you just got that made you quiet, you know? “I don’t want to know why security just pulled you over,” she continued.

“I mean, it could be any number of things that land on the desk of the leader of the free world, right? So I know a lot about what’s going on and what keeps me awake are the things I know.’

Since leaving the White House in 2017, Obama said she has taken up knitting — a pandemic-era hobby — and tennis to calm her mind.

“I’ve developed habits that shut my brain off from thinking,” she said.

“Learning something physical shuts down my mind,” she noted, pointing to her attempts at tennis. ‘Nothing shuts down my mind like running after a green ball.’

Michelle Obama’s concerns about the 2024 election come next The Washington Post reported this on Saturday that former President Barack Obama attended an off-the-book lunch with Biden in recent months.

Obama became “animated” and warned the president that his campaign needed to kick into high gear to deal with the threat from Trump.

Trump has outpaced his Republican rivals in the Republican primaries and is ahead of the Democratic president in a number of key swing state polls.

Biden took his first major swipe at Trump in 2024, delivering remarks Friday from Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, a pivotal location in the Revolutionary War.

The president warned that Trump was a threat to democracy, a day before the third anniversary of the Capitol riot.

“Donald Trump’s campaign is obsessed with the past and not the future. He is willing to sacrifice our democracy and put himself in power,” Biden said.

Trump fired back at a campaign rally in Iowa on Friday evening, telling supporters that Biden “stuttered” during his Jan. 6-themed speech.

“He goes bah bah bah, he’s a threat to democracy,” Trump said, mimicking Biden’s childhood speech impediment.