Eric Cantor Primary Opponent Dave Brat

[Occam's Banana]

FTA: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...da5d20-f092-11e3-bf76-447a5df6411f_story.html

Eric Cantor succumbs to to tea party challenger Tuesday

In a stunning upset propelled by tea party activists, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) was defeated in Tuesday’s congressional primary, with insurgent David Brat delivering an unpredicted and devastating loss to the second most powerful Republican in the House who has widely been touted as a future speaker.

The race [was] called shortly after 8 p.m. Eastern by the Associated Press.

[ ...more at link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...da5d20-f092-11e3-bf76-447a5df6411f_story.html]

 

[Vanguard101]

Yes he lost. ABC called it

 

[archer1600]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT. Go Virginia.

 

[cjm]

I know the experts have called it already, but I always run out the ground balls.

Member House of Representatives - 7th District - Republican

Precincts Reporting: 231/243 (95%)

Candidate Votes Percent
REP Party Eric I. Cantor 27,716 44.39%
REP Party David A. Brat 34,723 55.61%
Total Votes 62,439

 

[Nic]

So excited for all my friends and family 10 minutes north. Wish I still lived in the 7th district so I could have fired Eric Cantor too!

 

[angelatc]

Man, kudos to all you who picked this face out of the crowd. But The Establishment will strike back.

 

[amy31416]

Man, kudos to all you who picked this face out of the crowd. But The Establishment will strike back.

They will, but we're picking away at them.

 

[Mr.NoSmile]

Man, kudos to all you who picked this face out of the crowd. But The Establishment will strike back.

According to C-SPAN, they're already plotting.

 

[cjm]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT. Go Virginia.

Sic Semper Tyrannis, archer.


Member House of Representatives - 7th District - Republican

Precincts Reporting: 243/243 (100%)

Candidate Votes Percent
REP Party Eric I. Cantor 28,898 44.45%
REP Party David A. Brat 36,110 55.55%
Total Votes 65,008

 

[Matt Collins]

 

[Spikender]

Good riddance to that snake.

Voted Dave Brat, I'm so happy my district followed suit. I was worried because my polling place was so empty, but I'm guessing a lot of folks voted early.

 

[Peace&Freedom]

Congrats to David Brat and to the Tea Party for once again showing it's teeth! Even more sweet, Brat only had $50,000 bucks at start doing this! I have supported a strategy where liberty people focus on open seats, and primaries in order to make gains, while bringing CFL/Paul, LP and non-coopted Tea Party grassroots factions together as our base to get these victories. This win is exactly along those lines, with the TP variation that they are willing to organize to 'primary' incumbent despots out of office. We need to be doing a lot more of THIS, to create a more pro-liberty Congress.

"In a development that is going to shake the Republican Establishment to its foundations, Republican House majority leader Eric Cantor has been defeated: with a little more than 60 percent of the vote in, David A. Brat, a professor of economics and a trenchant critic of the National Security Agency’s spying on American citizens is clobbering the pro-NSA Cantor with a little less than 60 percent of the vote so far.

Brat started out with $50,000 of his own money to launch what many viewed as a quixotic campaign against a well-funded and well-entrenched opponent. At the starting bell, Cantor had over a million and a half in his campaign war chest...."

http://news.antiwar.com/2014/06/10/house-gop-leader-defeated-by-anti-nsa-challenger/

"There will be at least 45 open House seats throughout the country this year; you could call as many as 23 of them virtually safe Republican districts, with another 15 highly likely to be permanently Democratic. Those 23 new Republicans will represent something close to 10 percent of the House GOP majority next year. Who wins these elections could have a dramatic effect on governing...."

http://www.nationaljournal.com/maga...ld-determine-the-future-of-the-house-20140519