House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost his primary in convincing fashion, but there appear to be two separate questions: How did he lose? And why was it a surprise? One thing that everyone should be able to agree on is that Cantor’s loss was historic. According to CQ Roll Call […] Read more »
Eric Cantor’s Loss Was Like an Earthquake
Few people expected Eric Cantor to lose his primary in Virginia on Tuesday night. The House majority leader was up 13 points in the polls, though there were few in the race, and he had cash, incumbency and the Republican establishment on his side. He’d won his last general election, […] Read more »
GOP strategists try to assess impact of Cantor loss on other primaries
The shock waves from the stunning defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) reverberated quickly across the Republican Party Tuesday night, as tea party and establishment strategists tried to assess the possible impact on upcoming primaries and on the overall state of the GOP. The results from Virginia emboldened […] Read more »
Cantor’s Loss a Bad Omen for Moderates
The House Republican leadership, so solid in its opposition to President Obama, was torn apart Tuesday by the defeat of its most influential conservative voice, Representative Eric Cantor, the House majority leader, whose demise will reverberate all the way to the speaker’s chair, pull the top echelons of the House […] Read more »
VA-07: In Shocker, Cantor Loses Primary
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 […] Read more »
The Eric Cantor Upset: What Happened?
In a shocker, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has lost the Republican primary in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District to a relatively unknown college professor, David Brat. Brat spent little money in the race; Cantor spent over a million dollars. The political media will spend days trying to figure out what […] Read more »