Posted on 06/10/2014 5:14:03 PM PDT by cotton1706
RICHMOND, Va. — Dave Brat, a local economics professor, toppled House Majority Leader Eric Cantor on Tuesday night in the most shocking primary defeat since Republicans took the House in 2010.
The conservative challenger’s victory halts one of the most meteoric rises in national politics, and illustrates the strong anti-incumbent fever that has taken over Cantor’s Richmond-area district. Cantor is the second House incumbent to lose this primary season — Texas GOP incumbent Ralph Hall was defeated by a tea-party backed challenger at the end of May.
Cantor’s defeat not only reorders Virginia politics, where Cantor was the highest-ranking Republican, but it completely throws the House Republican leadership into flux. Cantor, 51, was long seen as the next speaker of the House after John Boehner retires.
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Ain’t gonna happen.
Unfortunately Hume made an excellent point that Graham won big and he had his name on the bill for amnesty and he still won! So you know graham is going to push for it hard!!
Amen!
I don’t know. Isn’t it good to have at least one Jewish Republcan?
Stick a fork in him done.
That helps!
Bret Baker
Brit Hume
Megyn Kell
Carl Is The Camera On
All crying on TV metaphorically
Hysterical
If only the GOPe fought the Left like they do their voters
“Does this mean Kevin McCarthy becomes House Majority Leader?”
No, there has to be a vote by the caucus. I don’t think any of the current leadership will survive. And they are all intentionally from Obama winning states.
Time for Tea Partiers in the leadership and as head of committees!
You mean Rove News Network? Seeing Cantor primaried out and his hopes of speakership gone puts a huge smile on my face. Look for Rove/McCain/Graham meltdowns tonight and tomorrow explaining this one LOL.
Kelly is saying that Brat will now face another professor at the same college that Brat is a professor at,in November.
Chris Stirewalt is saying that the GOP conference is going to meet to possibly replace Cantor as majority leader in the House, becausee he lost his primary. Cantor may step down, according to Baier, to avoid being asked by the House GOP conference.to step down.
Many want all gain with no pain/losses. It took 30 years to fall this far. It will hurt, a lot to crawl back out. tonight was great for sure. But people need to realize that we will have to lose a couple seats to get rid of the cancer.
Now here is what is surprising..Cantor gets his behind kicked yet Lindsey Graham wins easily, now THAT is just plain weird. Didn’t think Cantor would lose this badly but I think he put his own nail in his political coffin when he went straight leftist about amnesty for illegals..voters in Virginia sent a message to the GOP, we don’t want amnesty for illegal alien criminals
“I don’t know. Isn’t it good to have at least one Jewish Republcan?”
Like that friggin matters! You know why they put McMorris-Rodgers in the leadership? Because she was a woman and had a hyphenated name. They should have put Bachmann in the leadership.
1784. The last time Patrick Henry was re elected governor.
Hume is the enemy
/johnny
Really when did Col North run and was he the lone (R) candidate?
The last time a Democrat won this seat was in 1968.
Flipping thru channels and Madcow on MSNBC seemed ecstatic...the idea of the GOP’s Majority Leader losing.
Not sure about status of the final—someone on facebook said Brat would face a Libertarian and an independent/write in; no Dem on ballot...true?
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