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MICHIGAN CITY — Political commentator Chris Matthews will be invited back to Michigan City for a second look after giving his TV network viewers visions of a declining place with little left except empty storefronts.

“I’ve calmed down a bit since then,” said Michigan City Councilwoman Candice Silvas, who described herself as angry after hearing what she said was a bad rap from the popular host of MSNBC’s “Hardball.”

Matthews was talking about a speech Indiana Gov. Mike Pence gave Saturday after becoming the running mate of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and the job gains in the state claimed by Pence.

A skeptical Matthews said, “And he was talking about his own state of Indiana. If you go to places like Michigan City down at the bottom of Michigan, Lake Michigan there, you see cities with nothing left, but maybe a Blockbuster that’s probably gone now. Maybe a diner is still there. They’ve been hollowed out.’’

His viewpoint could have been drawn by a visit Matthews made to Michigan City in 2001 as a guest speaker.