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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I rarely drink myself but this news called for a shot of Woodford Reserve. Thanks Virginia.
True. But look at the OTHER places.We have given away so many principles.
Hume is talking head for the Gee Oh Pee elite. Never forget it.
in the senate.
the house will be another story.
Bohner has to do the math to survive and immigration amnesty = unemployment.
the glory for the victory goes to God, not virginia
AMF! (A little Spanish lingo there.) Don’t let the door hit you Eric....
BTTT, Norm!
We’ll see later if that’s the case, but for Cantor to lose this badly, in such a blind-sided manner, suggests that a large flush of Democrats crossed over.
Cantor was a lock in November. We’ll see, in this election between two nobodies, if the R+10 in this district will be able to hold against the onslaught of Democrat money targeting the crazed, immigrant-hating bigot Tea Party guy.
Yes, you are soooooo right!
Not Mark Levin or anyone else.
It matters because we want a voice in policy on Israel.
bump
Good to hear. I was unaware.
Last day to file to run as an independent was today. I suppose he could try to run as a write in. Won’t work. There was no great love for him in the redrawn district. It’s a very safe gop seat; the enemedia will of course stir the pot but I doubt anything will come of it.
Yes! We will take what we can get.
This one is BIG! Take that, GOPe/Unitparty!
Smart as you are
Why are you surprised?
Its still culture war and FOX is mostly not in that fight
Megyn is all about cake boy love and obnoxious feminist elite
Brit...all beltway
Baier is...well...concerned about access....fears extremists
All those turds except the bald guy sees this as good for dems
Its a game to them
“It matters because we want a voice in policy on Israel.”
And you need to be Jewish for that?? Any Protestant from the South could be a voice in policy on Israel. I’m a Catholic and I could be a voice in policy on Israel.
Cantor is a waste. He deserved defeat.
I don’t think Sheldon Adelson is too happy right now. Pocketbook might not be so open.
Tonight is living proof the pragmatists need to sit down and shut up. If they wont on their own, then need to hear it from us all.
I rememebr years ago he seemed like a straight shooter. Did he have a change of heart like Joe Scarborough?
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