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Cantor's defeat reorders politics in Virginia and in the House. | John Shinkle/POLITICO
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By JAKE SHERMAN | 6/10/14 8:03 PM EDT

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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‘Truly stunned’: Eric Cantor loses Republican primary to Tea Party challenger Dave Brat ==> http://twitchy.com/2014/06/10/truly-...ws-early-lead/



‘Truly stunned’: Eric Cantor getting clobbered in Virginia; Dave Brat shows early lead; Update: Brat takes it

Posted at 7:46 pm on June 10, 2014 by Twitchy Staff | View Comments


Chuck Todd ✔ @chucktodd Follow Cantor looks cooked to me. Truly stunned. Low turnout+Immigration issue+ story of current border crisis=perfect storm for Brat
7:40 PM - 10 Jun 2014


House Majority Leader Eric Cantor might be sweating it out watching the election returns in Virginia tonight. Tea Party challenger Dave Brat is enjoying a comfortable early lead in the polls.




Gabriella Hoffman @Gabby_Hoffman
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So Virginia may have an actual conservative Congressman on our hands?!? Cantor is getting clobbered!
7:33 PM - 10 Jun 2014


Alex Roarty @Alex_Roarty Follow We have a developing situation ... in #VA07 http://electionresults.virginia.gov/resultsSW.aspx?type=CON&map=CTY …
7:25 PM - 10 Jun 2014


Jon Ralston @RalstonReports Follow Wow. Eric Cantor is losing! Someone tell Sheldon Adelson.
7:26 PM - 10 Jun 2014


Dave Wasserman @Redistrict Follow Right now, I just don't see where Cantor (R) can make up his 58%-42% deficit. This would be the biggest House upset I've ever seen. #VA07
7:27 PM - 10 Jun 2014


Nate Cohn ✔ @Nate_Cohn Follow Brat is winning *more* precincts in the Richmond burbs, and winning them *by* more
7:29 PM - 10 Jun 2014 Washington, DC, United States


Jamie Dupree ✔ @jamiedupree Follow There just doesn't seem to be a county in #VA07 where Cantor can run up votes; 39% in, Brat leads 58-42%
7:29 PM - 10 Jun 2014


AOSHQDD @AOSHQDD Follow We project, based on returns and our projection formula, Eric Cantor has been defeated by David Brat. WOW. #AOSHQDD
7:31 PM - 10 Jun 2014


Cameron Joseph @cam_joseph Follow Almost half of precincts in and Cantor's still down 58%-42%. Most of the vote that's out is his territory. But… wow.
7:28 PM - 10 Jun 2014


Deirdre Walsh ✔ @deirdrewalshcnn Follow Cantor's opponent David Brat told me yesterday: "On Tuesday you're going to have a shock on your hands"
7:32 PM - 10 Jun 2014


Erick Erickson ✔ @EWErickson Follow If Cantor goes down, so does immigration reform.

7:36 PM - 10 Jun 2014


Kerry Picket ✔ @KerryPicket Follow If Brat pulls this out. Then the Obama admin’s last minute “dreamer” dumping may have seriously backfired on them

7:40 PM - 10 Jun 2014


Erick Erickson ✔ @EWErickson Follow Wait … so a dead tea party just took out the GOP’s Majority Leader? ZOMBIES ARE REAL!!!
7:39 PM - 10 Jun 2014


AOSHQDD @AOSHQDD Follow Our current projection formula shows Cantor losing about 45%-55%. Could tighten a bit, but he's...gone.
7:34 PM - 10 Jun 2014


Twitchy will continue to monitor the election results.

Update:
The AP is calling Virginia’s 7th congressional district for Brat.


Julie Pace ✔ @jpaceDC Follow RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- House Majority Leader Eric Cantor loses GOP primary to tea party challenger Dave Brat in Va.
8:03 PM - 10 Jun 2014


Jeff Zeleny ✔ @jeffzeleny Follow One GOP official tells me he is "stunned" by this result. Cantor assured leaders he was fine.
8:06 PM - 10 Jun 2014


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Breaking: House Majority Leader Eric Cantor Loses to Underdog Tea Party Challenger

By Steve Straub On June 10, 2014 · Leave a Comment · In Posters


WOW, this is amazing! David Brat defeats Eric Canton in today’s Virginia primary! Immigration reform is now dead for this Congress.

Via The Blaze:

After being all but counted out, tea party activist David Brat pulled off a stunning victory against House Majority Leader Eric Cantor Tuesday in the Virginia GOP primary for the U.S. House of Representatives, the Associated Press reports.
With 202 of 243 precincts reporting, Brat lead Cantor 56 to 44 in the race. The AP was the first to call the contest for Brat.
Brat, an economics professor who has never held political office, reportedly had just $40,000 in the bank at the end of March against Cantor’s $2 million war chest. He has attacked Cantor, the only Jewish Republican in the House, as a member of the elite establishment GOP who has voted to raise the debt ceiling and supported some immigration reform.

Watch this report from CNN, recorded just before the victory was announced:




http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/p...rty-challenger

BREAKING – DEVELOPING! UPSET OF THE DECADE! ERIC CANTOR LOSES PRIMARY CONTEST TO TEA PARTY-BACKED CHALLENGER

By Norvell Rose
8:11 pm June 10, 2014

This political news will no doubt shake the GOP Establishment foundations to their fractured base.

Eric Cantor, the Majority Leader in the House of Representatives — the likely next in line to be Speaker of the House – has been defeated in his primary race to win the Republican nomination in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District.

Cantor was defeated by Dave Brat, an economist and college professor who hammered the Majority Leader for his support of amnesty for illegal immigrants.

More details to follow.

http://www.libertynews.com/2014/06/b...ed-challenger/

I AM THE TEA PARTY!

DON'T TREAD ON US: Cantor's loss to an underfunded political novice marks a huge victory for the Tea Party movement, which has criticized the majority leader for losing sight of the conservative principles on which he was first elected.

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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor loses Virginia GOP primary, AP reports

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FILE: May 23, 2014: House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Virginia, at the Siemens Energy Hub in Charlotte, N.C.

In a stunning upset, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost the GOP Virginia primary Tuesday night to Dave Brat, an economics professor and political novice.
The Associated Press called the race for Cantor about an hour after polls closed at 7 p.m. ET.
Cantor is the second-most powerful member of the U.S. House and was widely seen as the next in line to succeed House Speaker John Boehner.
Cantor's loss to a political novice with little money marks a huge victory for the Tea Party movement, which supported Cantor just a few years ago.
Brat had been a thorn in Cantor's side on the campaign, casting the congressman as a Washington insider who isn't conservative enough. His message apparently scored well with voters in the 7th District.
"There needs to be a change," said Joe Mullins, who voted in Chesterfield County Tuesday. The engineering company employee said he has friends who tried to arrange town hall meetings with Cantor, who declined their invitations.
Tiffs between the GOP's establishment and Tea Party factions have flared in Virginia since Tea Party favorite Ken Cuccinelli lost last year's gubernatorial race. Cantor supporters have met with stiff resistance in trying to wrest control of the state party away from Tea party enthusiasts, including in the Cantor's home district.
Brat teaches at Randolph-Macon College, a small liberal arts school north of Richmond. He raised just more than $200,000 for his campaign, according to the most recent campaign finance reports.
Beltway-based groups also spent heavily in the race. The American Chemistry Council, whose members include many blue chip companies, spent more than $300,000 on TV ads promoting Cantor. It's the group's only independent expenditure so far this election year. Political arms of the American College of Radiology, the National Rifle Association and the National Association of Realtors had five-figure independent spending to promote Cantor.
Brat offset the cash disadvantage with endorsements from conservative activists like radio host Laura Ingraham, and with help from local Tea Party activists angry at Cantor.
Much of the campaign centered on immigration, where critics on both sides have recently taken aim at Cantor.
Brat has accused the House majority leader of being a top cheerleader for "amnesty" for immigrants in the U.S. illegally. Cantor has responded forcefully by boasting in mailers of blocking Senate plans "to give illegal aliens amnesty."
It was a change in tone for Cantor, who has repeatedly voiced support for giving citizenship to certain immigrants brought illegally to the country as children. Cantor and House GOP leaders have advocated a step-by-step approach rather than the comprehensive bill backed by the Senate. They've made no move to bring legislation to a vote and appear increasingly unlikely to act this year.
Cantor, a former state legislator, was elected to Congress in 2000. He became majority leader in 2011.
Fox News' Chad Pergram and The Associated Press contributed to this report

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014...ry-ap-reports/

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor Loses Primary to Tea Party Challenger

by Josh Feldman | 8:05 pm, June 10th, 2014 287

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has officially lost the Republican primary for his House seat to tea party challenger David Brat, according to the Associated Press. Cantor outspent Brat by a big margin, but still suffered a crushing defeat, marking a huge upset for a conservative movement looking to oust Republican establishment types.
Cantor was targeted by conservatives over, among other things, his position on immigration reform. His defeat came as a huge surprise, given how a Washington Post article today led with “A conservative challenger is expected to fall far short of defeating House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) in Tuesday’s congressional primary.”
You can learn more about Brat and his campaign HERE.
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LANDSLIDE PRIMARY DEFEAT FOR GOP’S #2 IN THE HOUSE, ERIC CANTOR, SENT PACKING BY A POLITICAL NOVICE

By Norvell Rose
8:41 pm June 10, 2014

The Majority Leader in the House of Representatives, Virginia 7th District Congressman Eric Cantor, has gone down in flaming defeat to a Tea Party-backed challenger named Dave Brat.
With close to 98% of precincts reporting, 238 out of 243, Brat maintains a commanding lead of about 11 percentage points, some 7-thousand votes.
Throughout the campaign, Brat — who was given a snowball’s chance by the pundits and power brokers — hammered Cantor for his elitism and his views on illegal immigration. Cantor has generally favored a form of amnesty for illegal immigrants as well as generally backed a variation of the so-called Dream Act.
Cantor has been in the House since 2001, becoming House Majority Leader in 2011.
This starting, out-of-the-blue defeat for a well-funded and well-connected GOP Establishment leader will no doubt send serious shock waves throughout Republican circles.
More to follow.

http://www.libertynews.com/2014/06/l...itical-novice/