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Jesse Watters lays out the midterm stakes as 'The Five' counts down

With 11 days to go, the Fox News panel weighs Democratic candidates' final pitches, and Harold Ford Jr. argues for a different path to a Democratic majority.

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Why this story? One of Fox News's most watched videos since yesterday, with 157,797 views.

Jesse Watters: This is the ‘REAL THREAT’

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0:05Emily Compagno opens by noting there are 11 days left until the midterm elections.
0:38Clips of Vance, Trump, Angie Nixon, Troy Jackson and Kamala Harris show the parties' closing messages.
2:22Harold Ford Jr. says economic worries drive voters toward change and policy controversies affect both parties.
4:36Jesse Watters argues Trump has energized the Republican base and warns of what Democrats would change.
9:00Greg Gutfeld argues progressives avoid direct answers because voters would reject their ideology.
11:37Ford and Gutfeld debate whether moderate or DSA Democrats will decide the elections.

Emily Compagno opens the segment with the countdown: 11 days until the midterm elections. The Fox News panel show "The Five" then turns to how both parties are making their closing arguments, and the clip has drawn close to 160,000 views in its first five hours, the most of any new upload on the channel.

The discussion is built around campaign footage. Rally clips of Vice President J.D. Vance and President Donald Trump are followed by interviews with Democratic candidates Angie Nixon and Troy Jackson, and a speech by Kamala Harris. An on-screen caption frames the Democrats' messaging as an effort to "cover up their radical agenda."

Jesse Watters, whose warning gives the video its title, argues that Trump's campaign push has mobilized the Republican base and that progressive policies threaten basic American institutions. "They're gonna nuke the filibuster, they're gonna seize your wealth, they're gonna make D.C. and Puerto Rico a state," he says of what Democrats would do with power.

Greg Gutfeld takes a similar line, saying progressives avoid straight answers because voters would reject their ideas. Jacqui Heinrich critiques Harris's campaign rhetoric, while also pointing to the geopolitical and economic challenges facing the party in power.

Harold Ford Jr., the former Democratic congressman and the panel's Democrat, offers a different reading. He says economic worries push voters toward change and that controversies over radical policies affect both parties. "If Democrats win a majority in the House and/or the Senate, it's gonna be because guys like me get elected," he says, as he and Gutfeld debate whether moderates or Democratic Socialists of America candidates will decide the outcome.

The segment comes as the channel's schedule fills with midterm coverage, including a separate Watters Short on early voting numbers and a Laura Ingraham segment on Democratic calls to expand the Supreme Court.

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