Matthews Worries Obama Could Lose ‘Some of His Glow’ If Trump ‘Pulls Him Down’

Curtis Houck | June 29, 2016
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A day after he wondered why terrorists always use bombs, MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews spent parts of Wednesday night’s show comparing President Barack Obama to Reggie Jackson in being a clutch campaigner for Hillary Clinton this fall but worrying that the President’s jousting with Donald Trump could cause him to lose “some of his glow.”

Going into a commercial break near the bottom of the hour, Matthews opined that eight years after their bitter primary race, “President Obama is Hillary Clinton's perhaps biggest guide supporting her, set to hit the campaign trail” next week.