do-or-die

“I don’t know if this is going to be a do-or-die issue,” she said.

Daniels doesn’t feel pressure; he’s laughing in the huddle in do-or-die moments.

"It is big. It's not quite do-or-die time but it's getting pretty close."

He says he felt it for his new Peacock thriller series, "Teacup," where he plays a complicated father and husband whose family is thrown into a terrifying do-or-die mystery.

In any case, nothing about the party’s exhausting, alarmist messaging or its murky self-image is going to change dramatically in the last week before a do-or-die national election.