If it's Thursday, is the midterm blame game already starting?

Some Democrats are going public by second-guessing their party's messaging as President Biden

warns democracy could be on a path to chaos, which is five days to go before he day.

Plus, we're live in the battlegrounds across America as Republicans seize on inflation

and crime, and Democrats play defense in blue states with some of the party's biggest names

on the trail. And anti-Semitism in America, two celebrities face backlash and calls for real

accountability for new allegations of anti-Semitism.

What it means for the fight against hate?

I'll speak with the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League.

Straight ahead. Hello there. Welcome to meet the press.

Now I'm Chuck Todd.

We are now five days out from the big day, and Democrats are bracing for a tough night.

And they're starting to point fingers.

And right now, most of the fingers are pointing at the White House.

With the overall midterm environment souring on the president's party,

some notable voices on the left

pan-Biden's speech where he zeroed in on the threat to democracy, even before it was even given, by the way,

wishing he'd spoken on another topic altogether, like the economy, or simply not spoken at all.

Here's a bit from the president last night, warning about an existential threat facing democracy.

As I stand here today, there are candidates running for every level of office in America, for governor, Congress, attorney general, secretary of state, who won't commit,

they will not commit to accepting the results of election that they're running in.

This is a path to chaos in America.

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