As New Hampshire’s election returns continued to come in, Chris Matthews grew more frustrated. After comparing some Democratic primary voters to drunks who “want a ride home,” the Hardball host on Tuesday admitted to being “frustrated” and not having the answers on how to beat Donald Trump.

After Brian Williams turned to Matthews for answers, the MSNBC host lamented, “I'm a bit frustrated, and I'm not the answer to all questions.... I'm just not tonight. I'm a little frustrated because I don't know what this” all means.

Insisting that not all Democratic voters are hard-left socialists, Matthews blurted, “They just want to be secure in their own economy, in their own lives and see their kids once in a while. If that’s the case, Trump is going to be tough to beat. So I don't know. I think in either case, it’s going to be tough to beat Trump.”

He predicted, “I don't know whether the Democratic Party has ideologically shifted as far to the progressive side as Bernie believes.” Considering (former) Republican Mike Bloomberg and socialist Sanders, the Hardball host returned to his idea of Democrats as drunks looking for a “designated driver”:

And then again, they can't outsource the nomination to Mike Bloomberg. That's an outsourcing. That's getting a designated driver, getting somebody to get you home but not one of your own. This is going to be tricky. You take a Democratic socialist or a Republican to be the designated driver.

A transcript is below: