In one of the biggest House primary earthquakes of all time, GOP House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor lost renomination tonight to Randolph Macon College economics professor Dave Brat, 55 percent to 45 percent. …
Cantor’s leadership position, unwillingness to prolong last October’s government shutdown, far-fetched attacks on Brat, and stylistic clash with Virginia’s gun-owning, very conservative 7th CD all played a role in the “perfect storm” of base anger that engulfed him. These were problems all of Cantor’s money and more couldn’t really solve.
Brat’s win also speaks to the GOP primary electorate’s distrust for the Republican leadership’s flirtations with immigration reform. If an immigration bill wasn’t already dead in the House, it is now. CONT.
David Wasserman, Cook Political Report