Politico:
- In a huge upset, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was defeated by his most serious primary challenger in a decade — University professor Dave Brat.
MarketWatch:
- In a stunning upset, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost a primary challenge Tuesday night to tea-party challenger David Brat, according to the Associated Press. Virginia Republican Cantor was accused by Brat, an economics professor, of backing amnesty for illegal immigrants living in the U.S. Brat is a little-known politician while Cantor is the No. 2 Republican in the House and was considered a possible successor to House Speaker John Boehner.
–
- This is a shock result
- The death of the Tea Party looks to have been exaggerated
- This should lead to more gridlock again in US politics
–
More from Politico:
- 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.
