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Offering his initial thoughts on the NBC News projection just after midnight Wednesday that Donald Trump would win the Nevada caucuses, MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews sought to diagnose Trump’s rise as going back to before the 2010 midterm elections and resulting in a 2016 in which “Trump is the name” for the “pain” of conservatives.
Matthews briefly harkened back to the cable network’s coverage of the South Carolina GOP primary from Saturday night before touting his supposedly astute insight of the party about how Trump’s rise “began before the 2010 election and what you saw was this growing, growing anger at the country's political establishment” and the tea party.