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All three cable networks had extensive coverage on Sunday night for the eve of the 2016 Iowa caucuses and with Hardball host Chris Matthews among the cast of characters on MSNBC, there was no shortage of notable comments ranging Matthews admitting that he has “butterflies out there in the locker room” ahead of the vote to gushing that he “like[s] Hillary personally and politically.”
Right off the bat, Matthews told fellow co-anchors Brian Williams and Rachel Maddow that he had to “start by saying I feel butterflies out here in the locker room” because “[i]t’s a very strange time to try to be a pundit or a journalist in politics because we're into strange territory” with so much uncertainty plus the rise of Donald Trump in a religiously conservative state.