Fox News host Jesse Watters threw in the towel for Republicans on Wednesday, nearly a year ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, predicting the GOP will lose control of the House of Representatives to Democrats.

“You’re gonna lose the House. You may keep the Senate. I’ll take that,” Watters conceded on Fox News’ “The Five.”

The mostly conservative panel was discussing the cost of living when Fox News personality Greg Gutfeld argued that Democrats “have no credibility” because, he claimed, they “never cared about affordability” until recently.

Democratic strategist Jessica Tarlov countered that Democrats must have some credibility — because they have flipped 25 seats on the ballot so far this year.

But Watters agreed with Gutfeld, adding that Democrats are “running on fixing a problem they created, and they won’t tell you how they’re going to fix it.”

He went on to praise President Donald Trump’s second term, including the passage of the so-called “big, beautiful bill,” and claimed that “next year is going to be insane” because “they’re projecting … the greatest economic year since the ’80s,” without clarifying who is making that prediction.

“Now, will it be enough to save the Republicans in the midterms? Probably not, but that’s OK,” Watters said.

Right now, inflation is still high, and a YouGov/Economist poll released last week found that 59% of voters disapprove of Trump’s handling of the economy.

Thirty-seven percent of Americans who voted for Trump in 2024 told Politico the cost of living is “the worst they can ever remember it being.”

Saying that “fickle” voters are “gonna get sick of whoever’s in power,” Watters then speculated about what Democrats would do if they take control of the House of Representatives next year.

“You’re going to do nothing, or you can do the same thing you did last time, which is open the border, spend trillions of dollars and make prices go up again,” he said.