As Washington publically frets over storm, GOP worries about impact of Trump, Cruz on Hill majority

Essentially everyone in Washington is freaking out about the blizzard.

But for several weeks now, many congressional Republicans have privately freaked out about the prospects of Donald Trump or, to a lesser degree, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, emerging as the party’s standard-bearer in the presidential sweepstakes.

The theory is that both candidates are so polarizing that their electoral prospect