If it's Thursday, it's the economy.

With just 19 days to go until the midter.

New polling shows deep voter pessimism about the cost of living and the prospects of a recession,

as Democrats struggle with their messaging around the most important issue for voters.

Plus, battleground candidates hit the trail full swing in the final run-up to November.

We'll have new reporting on key races for Senate and Governor, including the latest from the all-important

battleground of Arizona. And crisis in the U.K. Liz Trust resigns as prime minister. Liz, we

hardly knew ye. Just six weeks into a disastrous tenure fraught with turmoil.

What happens now amid the political turmoil of America's closest ally?

That's ahead.

Welcome to meet the Press now on this Thursday in October of an election year.

I'm Chuck Todd.

So we are now less than 20 days to the midterms.

There is no sugar-coating it for the Democrats.

They've lost the momentum.

And in large part, it's due to continued voter anxieties about the economy. It's ratcheting back up because guess what? It doesn't look like there's any

end in sight. New polling out today suggests voters remain highly pessimistic about the current

direction of the economy and about where it's headed. And they trust Republicans more to get

things back on track. We're going to dive into those new poll numbers in a moment. But first, here's what's actually driving some of this

economic anxiety among voters. There's real reasons for it. Concerns about a potential collapse in

the housing market. New data out today shows that sales of existing homes are at their slowest pace

in a decade. and mortgage rates are

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