No doubt the current border situation with the thousands of illegal kids had a great impact on this race.
But Cantor also ran the most slimeball campaign imaginable, slinging all manner of dirt at Brat. He reversed his position many times on immigration and quite frankly does not have a lot of accomplishment behind him....unless you count voting like a democrat as an accomplishment. At some point, even low-involvement Republicans take offense at Repubs adapting the worst of the worst dem tactics. And he overloaded his turf with mailer after mailer, often changing message from one to the other. He Rove’d himself to death. I think it’s a lot to ask for the end of McConnell and (somewhat less) Graham but the next body I’d like to see carried out is Rove himself.
And I couldn’t be happier about the outcome!
A blessed relief tonight, to enjoy this victory without Karl Rove, on FOX. Nice.
I’m from N KY, trust me, Mitch McConnell will lose in the general election. I’m not a tea party member, but agree with many of their positions. When Mitch called TP racist after beating Bevin, it convinced me that I will vote for Grimes in order to rid the party of this the McConnell albatross.