http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/06/11/cantors-defeat-mythbuster-edition/
Myth - The race was another battle in the national civil war between the tea party and the Republican establishment.
Reality - New nominee Dave Brat got a big boost from talk radio heavy hitters like Mark Levin, but this was a very local election. While tea party groups are stampeding to Richmond to lay claim to Brat’s success, they’re late in coming. Brat had zero backing from any of the national groups that are forever raising money for their fight against the GOP old guard. Brat is certainly more conservative than Cantor, but he hardly fits the preferred national narrative.
[“It wasn’t a contest between the tea party and the Republicans and all this. Although I had tremendous tea party support and just wonderful people in the tea party grass roots helping me out, and they’re clearly responsible for the win, but I ran on the Republican principles.” – Dave Brat on “Hannity.” Watch full interview here.]
Bull. The so called national tea party groups are just a bunch of opportunists. The only real Tea Party is the local Tea Party and the Rjchmond area Tea Party groups got Dave Brat elected.