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Closing out Wednesday’s edition of MSNBC’s Hardball, host Chris Matthews suggested that Hillary Clinton must pass “a test of leadership” to take the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination and become the next U.S. president that has nothing to do with any number of the scandals she’s involved in but simply whether she can corral Bernie Sanders supporters without capitulating to them.
Matthews not surprisingly declared that Republicans have already “fail[ed] that test” as “Speaker Boehner let Donald Trump pipe up that birther theory” and “host[ed] a Tea Party all these years, letting them yelp and filibuster and even stop the government and we saw what all this appeasement of the hard right has done.”