Joe Scar­bor­ough Claims 98% Of Con­gres­sion­al Repub­li­cans ‘Hate’ Trump

If you were a Repub­li­can, would you turn to Morn­ing Joe for the inside skin­ny about what’s going on in the ongo­ing strug­gle for a new House Speak­er? Would Joe Scar­bor­ough be your guide to how 200-plus elect­ed Repub­li­cans think right now? 
On today’s Morn­ing Joe, Scar­bor­ough claimed:

“You talk to 98% of the mem­bers in the House and the Sen­ate who are Repub­li­cans, and they pri­vate­ly hate Trump, hate him! Always have. They get in front of a cam­era, and they just, they sell their polit­i­cal soul to him.”

Does any­one believe Scar­bor­ough is trust­ed by “98 per­cent of Repub­li­cans” with their inner thoughts? 
Scar­bor­ough made his state­ment in the con­text of analo­giz­ing Repub­li­can feel­ings about Trump to those of House Repub­li­cans’ views on Jim Jor­dan. He not­ed that where­as the great major­i­ty of Mem­bers pub­licly sup­port­ed Jim Jor­dan’s can­di­da­cy, when they vot­ed behind closed doors, “they could­n’t get away from him fast enough.”
MSNBC con­trib­u­tor and Wash­ing­ton Post cor­re­spon­dent Jacque­line Ale­many report­ed that the pre­vail­ing view is th …