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In the rarely fruitless world of MSNBC’s Hardball, host Chris Matthews groaned at the top of Monday’s show about the ongoing Benghazi and e-mail scandals enveloping Hillary Clinton that have become “termite bites” for the Democratic presidential candidate as Vice President Joe Biden could still join the 2016 race.
Matthews spent roughly the first minute prior to the introduction of the show’s first panel wondering about what impact a Biden bid would have, including concerns that it could “split the moderate vote and give Senator Bernie Sanders a real chance to win” but also “switch attention to the big questions of competence and policy and away of the termite bites of Benghazi and e-mail.”