Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., is scrambling furiously to explain why he failed earlier this week to answer a simple question about President Obama’s handling of the Ebola crisis.

The vulnerable Democratic senator was asked Monday by an MSNBC reporter whether Obama “has done an appropriate job” addressing the deadly virus. The senator stumbled hard answering the question, opting instead to mumble something mostly unintelligible.

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