‘The Five’: Trump Warns Voters What Could Happen If Democrats Win the 2026 Midterm Elections

I'm Greg Gutfeld along with Joey Jones, Kat Timp, Jesse Waters, and a banana peel is her sleeping bag. Dana Perino, The Five. President Trump laying out the stakes that the dummy Dems get back in power. But the simple mind hack to MAGA voters, just pretend that I'm on the ballot. There's a theory that I get the vote, you know, I see it all the time, that when Trump's on the ballot, they win. When he's not on the ballot, the people that have got to vote, and I'm asking the people through your brilliant show, number one show, I'm asking the people to get out and vote. Pretend I'm on the ballot. You're going to have the taxes raised. You're going to have the crazy things happening like the men and women's sports will never end. None of this stuff, transgender will never end. Open borders. They'll open the borders immediately. Oh man, blindsided by Trey's hair again. That comes as Axios details the growing power struggle on the left with the socialists bickering over which comrade should be in charge. Apparently some of the commies consider AOC as more establishment than insurgent. But Obama's former campaign manager says the squad rep may be the most electable option Dems have. I think of all the candidates, she's the one that, from a performance standpoint, seems to have the broadest skill set. And she'd start with a strong base, I think. We have no idea what's most electable. We have no idea what voters will want. It's a long time away from now. But it's not out of the question that someone like AOC is most electable. Well let's start there, Dana. He might be right that AOC appears to be the most electable because the goalposts have changed so much that she looks less crazy than the current contenders they have. A couple years ago, she was insane. Now she's not as nutty when you see all of the crazy pants they have. When David Plouffe says something like that, I pay attention. He helped Obama win twice. He can spot talent. She's obviously talented. And she has been distancing herself from the DSA for a while, but then she crept back a little bit. And they were like, we kind of need her, so we need to basically allow her to be a part of us. But on background, there was like these anonymous quotes saying, she's not progressive enough. She doesn't fight for us. That only helps her. Yeah, exactly. And it's not true, but it does help her. It does help her. I'm not as crazy. Okay, fine, I'll take that. I'm not as crazy as you. But I don't know if there's any space between the two. You know, Jesse, you're a deep thinker. This is my deep thinking fist. Yeah, it's good. I think the challenge with Trump is that he's done too much stuff, right? Two years feels like four. People are tired. You have Space Force, the Trump accounts, the collapse in illegal border crossings. You've got NATO burden sharing, drops in murder and overdose deaths. So many things that it's almost overwhelming. Right, but it's not about Trump. It's about these guys and the stakes are really high. You get a guy like Tal Afriko or Abdul, they get in there and they nuke the filibuster and they're going to take your guns. They're going to take your doctor. They're going to build Section 8 housing in the suburbs. They're going to blow up the ballroom, which, by the way, just got approved by the Supreme Court. Can't wait for that invite. You know, Greg and I go to these things together. The speaking of Tal Afriko, I was down in Texas the other day at an event and I spoke to one of these big fundraisers that has these guys at their homes. And they as like, is Paxson going to win? Because I never see him. They're like, hundo pay. And I said, really? And they said, Paxton killed it during COVID. He basically kept Fauci out of the state and sued all these big tech companies. The big pharma companies, billion dollar settlements was great on guns, great on migrants. And people remember that. And Tal Afriko, I mean, he is such a freak. You'd think he'd be from San Francisco. And that's not a gay joke. He is definitely straight. But he said the Hispanic people, they are like pro-gun, pro-God, pro-Second Amendment. They look at Tal Afriko and he looks like an alien, like a foreign monster coming to take their tradition. He said this fundraiser, Crockett would have been a better candidate because it would have fired up all the blacks and women. And Tal Afriko is just like, not going to happen. But AOC, Greg, as a Democrat, the dumber you are, the better you do. Think about it. She's ditzy. She said really stupid stuff. She's done really stupid stuff. It propels Democrats. Joe Biden, dunce, made it all the way to the White House. Bass, Newsom, bragging, he can't even read. He's like the favorite right now. All of these Democrats, Bernie doesn't understand supply and demand. Mondani doesn't understand basic economics. These are the people that do well in Democrat politics. So I think she's definitely running. She's freezing her eggs. She broke off her engagement. And she's hiring all these Bernie bros to go national. And David Plouffe is fluffing her up because he wants to get hired. Remember all these Obama people stormed into the Kamala campaign, took a million-dollar check and left? That's what he's doing. All right. Well, I have to, I guess I have to retract something I said earlier. About deep thinking? Yes. He is not a deep thinker. He is definitely not a deep thinker. Hi, Kat. How you doing? Hi, I'm doing great. It's good to see you earlier in the evening. What would you like to comment on, that Trump wants people to pretend that he's on the ballot? Isn't that what the Democrats are kind of doing? Yeah. That's what, yeah. I love very Trump to say, there's a theory, which, sure. I think that is definitely what Democrats are doing. I think that's what Democrats have been doing for quite a while. I think that's what they're going to have a difficult time not doing when Trump is not in politics anymore. I think, obviously, as Jesse pointed out, a lot of the things that these progressive candidates are putting out there are crazy. The stuff in the DSA platform is even crazier. I don't know anybody who wants to see prisons abolished, for example, but that's what their platform says. However, I think that what it'll come down to is issues right now that matter to people, cost of living, things like that. Right now, are Republicans making the case for how much worse socialism and these candidates would make these issues, which they would. You don't got to explain to me, or probably most people watching this, the way that socialism can make these issues worse, but right now, it's pretty split on who people trust to handle the economy right now, Democrats, Republicans. It's pretty split, with a slight edge, actually, to Democrats, which was not the case the last time we had an election, the presidential election. I think that that Republicans have to get out there and make a better case for affordability and for just sharing, like, hey, I see you, I hear you, but if we get some of these people in power, it's going to get even more expensive. Look at what socialism does, because, of course, as you and I know, government involvement has been the reason for a lot of these issues, historically. Speaking of which, Joey, in terms of persuasive message, we're going to have the first ever GOP midterm convention. If you were in charge of it, what would you prioritize? What would you have them do, based on kind of what Kat's saying, which is like, you know, what message is going to work? Well, the problem is that you have to connect the wins that Trump has to what Congress has done, right? I mean, what's owned, even here on Fox, what's owned the conversation, at least on our show on the weekends, is the inability to pass Save America Act, to even entertain putting some of those senators, at least put them out there, show the ones that are so far against it that they are using the filibusters, this way of not having to go on the record. I think Kat's absolutely right. I think most Americans, regardless of what team they cheer for, we're looking at price of gas, price of money, price of vehicles, price of housing, price of groceries, and they want to know, okay, well, where's the President Trump from the first term, that like, just, you know, started the engine, and now everything was working well. I think President Trump would say, well, I'm building something that's longer term, something that works for the country in the long term. I don't know that people care about that. I mean, we pick up our phones, we want to be three clicks from whatever we want to see, and then we won't watch it for more than 30 seconds. That's what, that's who we are as a people now. We don't even read books in long form anymore. We can't wait 10 years for a policy. We don't care about that anymore. Some of us read books. Yeah. Well. Some of us, right? Are you talking about friends you have, or? No, I was talking about her. That is true. Some of the articles she sends me are books. Dana, I got two pages into it, where's the point? But no, so I think that Congress is living with that as much as President Trump is. I mean, President Trump's an executive order president, just like the last four or five have been. How do you connect those to the Senate, especially? And then, you know, sometimes we don't send our best and brightest. Sometimes we don't have prolific characters. There aren't but one President Trump in this country. And you know, it's hard to get people excited. So true. Tell me about it. Be sure to like and subscribe for all the Fox News latest on YouTube and catch full shows streaming now on Fox One.