Mitt Romney's speech on Thursday attacking GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump shows the real worries the party has, pollster John Zogby tells
Newsmax TV.
"We kind of sense that Mitt himself would have liked to have run," Zogby said during post debate coverage Thursday night. "But I think he genuinely spoke for the establishment of the party."
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Trump worries the establishment because "he has taken all of the positions that the party autopsy warned against," Zogby said. "But also, he's a bucking bronco" who has not shown a capacity to work through channels within the party.
"There's genuine concern there, and we see the beginnings of a strategy on the part of the establishment – the short-term strategy of one-state, one-guy, [Marco] Rubio in Florida, [John] Kasich in Ohio," he said.
That probably helps Trump, Zogby said because "it fuels him because he's running anti-establisment. … What was a conspiracy now looks like an overt effort to block him."
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