THE loud mouth hypocritical US House majority leader, kapo eric cantor lost his primary today! He finally is getting paid back for his politics grounded in lies, deception and manipulation, politics of hate and prejudice and racism. His politics cost him the support of the sane Republicans in his district and they showed that by not turning out for him. Yes, the voters of his district (a minority to be sure) voted for someone who is part of the lunatic right wing, someone more extreme than kapo cantor, but the majority of the voters of the district will have the chance in November to show they are tired of divisive, destructive tea-bagger politics and elect the Democratic candidate, or they could choose to show the nation they really are ignorant and elect the extremist tea-bagger david brat who defeated kapo cantor. From +NPR .....
J. Scott Applewhite/AP
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has lost his Republican primary
in Virginia's 7th Congressional District to Tea Party challenger David
Brat — a stunning upset that will rewrite the leadership of the
chamber's GOP leadership.
Brat, an economics professor at Randolph-Macon College, was leading Cantor by .
"I know there's a lot of long faces here tonight, and it's disappointing, sure," Cantor said, speaking to supporters. "I believe in this country; I believe there's opportunity around the next corner for all of us."
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NPR's Ron Elving calls the defeat of Cantor, who was widely
expected to eventually replace House Speaker John Boehner, "Truly
stunning and all but unprecedented for a speaker-in-waiting."
says that Brat tapped into "strong anti-incumbent fever that has taken over Cantor's Richmond-area district."
Although Cantor is a conservative and has been close to the Tea Party, "in the past two years they've been angered by his shift to support for some kind of immigration reform. Brat made that an issue, saying Cantor was no longer a real conservative," NPR's Don Gonyea says.
Even so, "Going into the elections, most Republicans had been watching for how broad Mr. Cantor's victory would be, with almost no one predicting that he would lose,"
, in an article earlier Tuesday, said Cantor was expected to prevail but acknowledged that Brat had "exposed discontent with Cantor in the solidly Republican, suburban Richmond 7th Congressional District by attacking the lawmaker on his votes to raise the debt ceiling and end the government shutdown, as well as his support for some immigration reforms."
Reuters says Cantor, the No. 2 in the House, heavily outspent his opponent, who managed to raise just over $200,000 for his campaign, according to his most recent campaign finance reports.
The Associated Press says:
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor listens to
House Speaker John Boehner at a recent news conference on Capitol Hill.
Cantor, from Virginia's 7th Congressional District, lost the primary
election Tuesday night, a stunning defeat.
Brat, an economics professor at Randolph-Macon College, was leading Cantor by .
"I know there's a lot of long faces here tonight, and it's disappointing, sure," Cantor said, speaking to supporters. "I believe in this country; I believe there's opportunity around the next corner for all of us."
Tea Party-backed David Brat, an economics
professor at Randolph-Macon College, has defeated House Majority Leader
Eric Cantor in his Virginia Republican primary.
says that Brat tapped into "strong anti-incumbent fever that has taken over Cantor's Richmond-area district."
Although Cantor is a conservative and has been close to the Tea Party, "in the past two years they've been angered by his shift to support for some kind of immigration reform. Brat made that an issue, saying Cantor was no longer a real conservative," NPR's Don Gonyea says.
Even so, "Going into the elections, most Republicans had been watching for how broad Mr. Cantor's victory would be, with almost no one predicting that he would lose,"
, in an article earlier Tuesday, said Cantor was expected to prevail but acknowledged that Brat had "exposed discontent with Cantor in the solidly Republican, suburban Richmond 7th Congressional District by attacking the lawmaker on his votes to raise the debt ceiling and end the government shutdown, as well as his support for some immigration reforms."
Reuters says Cantor, the No. 2 in the House, heavily outspent his opponent, who managed to raise just over $200,000 for his campaign, according to his most recent campaign finance reports.
The Associated Press says:
calls Cantor's defeat "perhaps the most significant jolt to the Republican establishment since the emergence of the Tea Party in 2009":"[Cantor's] loss to Dave Brat, 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. ... Last month, a feisty crowd of Brat supporters booed Cantor in front of his family at a local party convention."
"While conservative activists have ousted veteran Republicans like Sens. Bob Bennett (Utah) and Richard Lugar (Ind.), a sitting majority leader has never been defeated in a primary election.
"As recently as Friday, Cantor and his team in Virginia projected confidence.
" 'I'm just not worried,' Cantor's Richmond-based political adviser, Ray Allen, told The Hill. Cantor's own polling showed him with a comfortable lead.
"Brat told The Hill he was 'peaking at exactly the right time.' "
