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CANTOR LOSES
politico.com ^ | 6/10/14 | Jake Sherman

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 113th; 2014gopprimary; 2014midterms; adiospendejo; aliens; brat; byebyerino; cantor; elections; teaparty; teapartyrebellion; uniparty; va2014; win; winning
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To: Kolath

LOL!


61 posted on 06/10/2014 5:23:41 PM PDT by BOOHA
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To: cotton1706
How do you spell 'relief' ?

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62 posted on 06/10/2014 5:23:51 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: cotton1706

Bet he never saw that coming...


63 posted on 06/10/2014 5:24:03 PM PDT by novemberslady
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To: Blue Highway

I’ve seen a couple of posts this evening to the effect that Virginia law prohibits a candidate that loses a primary from running in the general election. It’d be interesting to know if that’s true.


64 posted on 06/10/2014 5:24:07 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (Hoaxey Dopey Changey)
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To: cotton1706

hahahahahaha.... f’you RINOs


65 posted on 06/10/2014 5:24:08 PM PDT by Dick Vomer (democrats are like flies, whatever they don't eat they sh#t on.)
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To: cotton1706

I absolutely loved reading it!


66 posted on 06/10/2014 5:24:21 PM PDT by the anti-mahdi
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To: cotton1706

Maybe he can work his way up to the speakership in Mexico or El Salvador.


67 posted on 06/10/2014 5:24:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2Million USD for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: cotton1706

Good!


68 posted on 06/10/2014 5:24:30 PM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: bkopto
So is he gonna support Brat?! Or is he gonna do a Murkowski?

The 'team player don't-be-a-dead-ender purist' line is only valid when the candidate is a Karl Rove-approved GOPe guy.

69 posted on 06/10/2014 5:24:33 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: taildragger

>>Does this re-ignite the Tea-Party Base, that is the Million Dollar question...<<

Don’t you read the papers? The Tea Party is dead.

This is the ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE!


70 posted on 06/10/2014 5:24:39 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (AGW "Scientific method:" Draw your lines first, then plot your points)
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To: cotton1706

Donated early money to Brat. :-)


71 posted on 06/10/2014 5:24:40 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Radicalized via the Internet)
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To: TADSLOS

I sense a great disturbance in the force.

Its as if millions of RINO egos suddenly deflated.


72 posted on 06/10/2014 5:24:44 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: cotton1706

b..b...b..b...but the Tea Party is dead...didn’t anyone tell the voters..bwahahahahaha


73 posted on 06/10/2014 5:24:59 PM PDT by Dick Vomer (democrats are like flies, whatever they don't eat they sh#t on.)
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To: slouper

Unfortunately looks like Linda Gayham is going to win again :(


74 posted on 06/10/2014 5:25:17 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: TADSLOS

Carl Cameron on FOX just said that “this will make it much harder for the establishment to get things done”.

Got a laugh at that one!


75 posted on 06/10/2014 5:25:22 PM PDT by Captain7seas (Beware of "enviromentalist" bearing gifts)
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To: cotton1706

I am beyond ecstatic. That little amnesty weasel is gone.


76 posted on 06/10/2014 5:25:31 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

>>Maybe he can work his way up to the speakership in Mexico or El Salvador.<<

El Palaverdore..?


77 posted on 06/10/2014 5:25:39 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (AGW "Scientific method:" Draw your lines first, then plot your points)
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To: cotton1706

The Tea Party Lives!!!

Read The Republic of Texas 2022


78 posted on 06/10/2014 5:25:44 PM PDT by bray (Palin/Putin 2016)
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To: cotton1706

79 posted on 06/10/2014 5:25:45 PM PDT by capydick (''Life's tough.......it's even tougher if you're stupid.'')
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To: cripplecreek

LOL. Karl Rove is deeply saddened.


80 posted on 06/10/2014 5:25:52 PM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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