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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Great news!
Cantor slept with the dogs, woke up with fleas, and the good doctor fumigated the place.
Pouring one myself. Cheers!
YES!!
Good going, folks in the 7th district! My husband’s aunt and her husband no doubt cast their vote against Cantor.
CANTOR SCALPED!! WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
So is he gonna support Brat?! Or is he gonna do a Murkowski?
No. It's a rebirth.
Probably means that he and Speaker will go all out to push amnesty through no that he is a lame duck.
It will be interesting to see if Karl Rove will support RINO Cantor as an independant? Is it even legal for the GOP to funnel money to a write in candidate?
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!! :-D
Heh. The beltway UNIPARTY crowd just soiled their britches.
The commentators are coming up with one complex theory after another... they’re missing the point: The Tea Party is the Populist Party.
TEA PARTY DEAD!! Story at 11.
Rove must be eating his white board.....
Great news!
Go Brat go!
Wow! Now they’re bringing in the fact that he lost because he was pushing for amnesty! it’s about freaking time! Pray that this is the beginning of a tsunami to come and wash away all those bastard out of the hill!!!!
Doesn’t matter what Cantor does, write-in or not. The big news is a House Majority Leader was taken out in a primary. This is HUGH and SERIES! There are many soiled Depends on Capitol Hill tonight.
Cantor was never a Republican, like Ryan, just a Democrat undercover. He showed his true colors with his immigration nonsense and the people caught on quick, thank God and good riddance.
I’m love’n the msm spin on this, it’s really rich.
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