On Fox News’ ‘The Five’, liberal Jessica Tarlov won’t give up the fight | Exclusive

The first time you tune into “The Five,” Fox’s popular daily political talk show, you immediately know one of the cohosts is not like the others. On a network where women once seemed to have a uniform of bright sheath dresses, Jessica Tarlov is wearing sneakers. Converse, to be exact.

Also different: her politics. She’s the lone liberal at the table, going toe-to-toe with conservative cohosts Emily Compagno, Greg Gutfeld, Dana Perino and Jesse Watters. “I am outnumbered,” she says. The 4-to-1 odds don’t phase her. “I still do well though, I think. Or at least that's what my mom tells me,” she says with a laugh.

Now, she’s publishing her first book, “I Disagree: Winning Arguments without Losing Friends,” out Sept. 15. Part memoir, part how-to guide for heated political conversations, it’s perfectly timed for what could be one of the most expensive and most polarized midterm elections in modern history.

“I hear constantly from people on the right and on the left that they wish they were having conversations with people they disagree with, that we're too siloed, we're too hyper-partisan,” she tells USA TODAY. “They are not necessarily in it to convert people to their point of…

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