The Establishment is on the cusp of failure because it put all its eggs in a basket containing only two Republicans, Jeb Bush and Sen. Marco Rubio, LifeZette Editor-in-Chief Laura Ingraham said Tuesday.

Bush dropped out after getting blown out in South Carolina, and if Rubio’s showing in Super Tuesday is as dismal as polls suggest, the Florida senator is on his way out the door soon, too.

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“They essentially said we’re only going to support two people — we’re going to support Jeb and then we’re going to support the guy who agrees with him on everything except Common Core,” Ingraham said during a Fox News appearance.

The Establishment failed to understand that voters were fed up with such choices. “I think the donors made a big mistake,” Ingraham said. “They underestimated the anxiety, frustration and anger of the electorate that has been failed largely by the Establishment.”

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And so they rallied behind candidates that embody the failures of the GOP and only remind voters why they are so angry in the first place.

“I think Rubio is Bush 3.0 for a lot of voters,” said Ingraham. “They bypassed Christie, they bypassed John Kasich, they bypassed Jindal and Scott Walker. They put all their eggs in Jeb and Rubio — that was a mistake.”

Now, having blown their chances to control the election and facing the possibility of a complete rout on Super Tuesday, the Establishment has only two realistic options to try to prevent Trump from securing the nomination.

“If Cruz does better than expected, I think Cruz goes to Rubio and says, ‘Look, you’re going to lose your home state, come with me. Let’s band together to try and stop Trump,'” Ingraham said.

“On the other hand, if Rubio has some decent showings today, I think he goes to Cruz and says, ‘Look, I know you have the conservative bona fides, I have the donors … Let’s form a current front against Trump.'”

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The one thing the Establishment won’t be able to do to stop Trump, however, is take him on in an actual debate about the issues that are important to voters. “A lot of the hits on Trump today … are not policy related,” Ingraham said.

“Trade and immigration — those two issues are wedge issues across the working class,” she said. The Establishment does not “want to debate trade or immigration with [Trump], or the economy. I think on those three issues he dominates,” she noted.