Read more at NewsBusters | As the voting results started streaming in tonight, MSNBC's Chris Matthews, Mika Brzezinski, and Joe Scarborough all gushed over Donald Trump's evolution in tone on the campaign trail since Iowa. Brzezinski, for example, hailed the New York real-estate developer as "more learned" and exuding less "bravado."
"Do you think he's one of those guys that's better when they're hit a little hard? That life's knocks make 'em better," Matthews posited, comparing Trump to California's Jerry Brown, who "used to be insufferable" but is "now a pretty good guy."