, he has we can report that eric cantor, number two in the republican house of congress, has lost his seat. the timing of when john boehner would step down and give cantor the job. that conversation is now moot. in just a little less than an hour ago, this race was officially called by the associated press for eric cantor's tea party challenger. an economist named dave brat. eric cantor has served in the house since 2001. he was first electioned in 2000, was sworn in on 2001. number two republican since republicans took control of the house in 2011. tonight it appears eric cantor's career will be over. really, nobody expected this result coming into tonight, but he did concede the race with shock on his face. >> thank you. thank you. obviously, we came up short. serving as the seventh district congressman and then having the majority to be leader has been one of the highest hoppers of my life. i know there's a lot of long faces tonight, and it's disappointing, sure, but i believe in this country. i believe there's opportunity around the next corner for all of us. so i look forward to

eric cantor is out of congress. of the story tonight about a tea party challenger ousting a republican incumbent in a primary, that ought to sound a little familiar. in the 2012 election, richard mourdock defeated richard lugar in the senate primary in indiana. in 2010, tea party challengers defeated incumbents in utah. mike lee defeating bob bennett in utah and i am not a witch tea partier christine o'donnell defeating mike cassell in delaware. this sort of thing has happened in recent years. this sort of thing. but not in any of those instances or any other instance that we could find has a challenger, tea party or otherwise, even come close to ousting a member of the leadership in congress. these were the top three republicans in congress. before about an hour ago, one of them was eric cantor. that is no longer the case. based on what we know right now about this breaking news story, it seems unprecedented for a leader in congress to lead their seat. there is precedent for leadership losing in the general electio

forll congratulate him ousting eric cantor. gram, the radio was influential in this outcome of yesterday's seventh district race. she campaigned for dave brat and spoke a lot about it. she tweeted this out. pack trounces cantor." obamas senior adviser tweeted this out. "cantor's problem was not his position on immigration reform. position."lack of that is what -- we showed you this tweak before. steve stockman. -- this tweak before. dean. democratic caller. caller: i think cantor really had an identity crisis. it was hard to tell if he was extreme right or moderate. was able tobrat take advantage of that. the republicanng nomination -- it does give democrats some life in the district. of moneysee a lot dumped into that race, that is for sure. the executive decisions by president obama -- if she looks it up, he has far fewer executive decisions that he has made than most presidents, including the previous president. cnn tweeted this out. chamber of commerce offered to help canter but were waved off by cantor camp. here is the rea

if eric cantor the right-wing thorn in speaker boehner's side, if eric cantor wasn't conservative enough for virginia republican voters what does this mean for the republican party right now? what does a cantor-less congress look like. and i am joined by my guests. crystal, let me start with former speaker pelosi's reaction to this, she says eric cantor has been the face of house republicans, debilitating dysfunction and tonight a major victory for the tea party as they pull the republican party further to the radical right. pelosi says as far as midterm elections are concerned it is a whole new ball game. >> i don't know that i would go that far, a whole new ball game. one thing i would say, i think this is definitely another wake-up call to republicans, a wake-up call where they real i the purity test is very real. any thought they had of trying to govern, is certainly going to be gone at this point. in terms of the broader midterm dynamics i don't know if it changes the calculus unless this guy, we don't know that much about dave brat, we haven't heard that much. extreme rhetoric on i

all right, next up in the eric cantor race, mr. paid pollster, the guy he paid to do polling, predicted cantor would win his primary last night and win in a landslide. is that true or false? may be the reason eric cantor didn't bother campaigning in his home district the morning of the primary and instead, held a fund raiser for lobbyists at a d.c. starbuck's. was the reason he was so cocky, his polling told him he would win and win big. true or false. [ bell dings ] >> reported in "the washington post," the pollster eric cantor hired to tell him how he was doing in virginia, his pollster told him he would beat david brat by 34 points. the republican polling for mclaughlin and associated told cantor he was on track to beat brat 62-28. of course that is not how it worked out. eric cantor not only didn't beat david brat by 34 points. he lost to him by 11 points t that said, consider that the same republican pollster in 2012 said that george allen, was going to win his senate race in virginia. he didn't. the same republican pollster s

if eric cantor the right-wing thorn in speaker boehner's side, if eric cantor wasn't conservative enoughginia republican voters what does this mean for the republican party right now? what does a cantor-less congress look like. and i am joined by my guests. crystal, let me start with former speaker pelosi's reaction to this, she says eric cantor has been the face of house republicans, debilitating dysfunction and tonight a major victory for the tea party as they pull the republican party further to the radical right. pelosi says as far as midterm elections are concerned it is a whole new ball game. >> i don't know that i would go that far, a whole new ball game. one thing i would say, i think this is definitely another wake-up call to republicans, a wake-up call where they real i the purity test is very real. any thought they had of trying to govern, is certainly going to be gone at this point. in terms of the broader midterm dynamics i don't know if it changes the calculus unless this guy, we don't know that much about dave brat, we haven't heard that much. extreme rhetoric on immigrati

eric cantor. i would like to find out his favorability ratings going into this. if the base of the party didn't like him, the base of the republican party, then that explains a lot of it. >> this is also a testament to the power of conservative radio. it is still very, very strong. laura ing gram, don, i've been following her tweets for several weeks. the fact that she has been trying to gin up the grass roots in that virginia district. went down there, had a rally herself, you can't underestimate that. >> tomorrow, con going on down there? gre congressional democrats, you want to take a gander what the they will be saying. >> on one hand, sending out press releases and tweets saying the republican party has been overtaken by the tea party. shows you how right wing the republican party has become. so they are crowing about this. on the other hand they anervous. what this means, as far as immigration is concerned, republicans will just run away. because they're going to be afraid of -- they are goi

in looking at some of the umbers, 98% of precincts, dave bratt won and eric cantor 44%. give us a call. first, some tweets from jonathan weisman, congressional reporter with the "new york times," saying, "cantor can still run as a writing candidate. a broader electorate in november but wow, he has decisions to make." another one from "politico" staff writer, jake sherman in richmond. "my first cut on the eric cantor loss completely upends washington politics." looking at roll call, house majority leader eric cantor, "moving his primary to a poorly funded opponent." in recent history, roll call says it's extremely rare for a member of house leadership to lose, especially in a primary. the most recent majority leader or speaker to lose re-election was the late democratic speaker tom foley of washington, but he lost in a general election in 1994, a republican wave. again those numbers, republicans 202-585-3880, democrats 202-585-3881, and independents call 202-585-3882. some more tweets with the "huffington post," sam stine, says, "on a more serious note, cantor's loss remov

not eric cantor. the democrats for a long time had not even bothered to put up anybody to run on the democratic side for this race in the general election this november. eric cantor has been the number two republican in house since republicans took control of the house in the 2010 elections. it was presumed his seat was relatively safe. that's why the democrats weren't necessarily going to even bother to put somebody else against him. when mr. brat, when dave brat, the challenger, did seem to be fighting very tough race against mr. cantor, virginia democrats decided just this weekend to pick somebody to contest this on the democratic side. but now eric cantor will not be the republican in that race. it appears again the breaking news at this hour, the associated press has called this race in virginia. house majority leader eric cantor, the number two republican in the house of representatives has apparently lost his seat. joining us now on the phone is steve kornacki, host of "up with steve kornacki."

and eric cantor is a very smart man, this is not an anti-cantor statement.ery large part of his constituents were not happy and he was not paying attention to them. that is the message, members who pay attention, members who listen to the folks are able to ultimately do very well. that people who think somehow that money and consultants are a substitute for grass roots paying attention i think always run a risk. >> to echo that, mr. speaker, they say cantor spent $5.4 million on this race, dave brat spent thousands. >> sure, and this is a classic mistake of the washington consulting class which i frankly am deeply hostile to, they managed to convince eric to run negative ads against a man who was totally unknown. i have not seen the analysis yet, but i will bet you more of the name identification came from eric cantor's ads than came from his own activities. and that is just plain malpractice on the part of the consultants. >> they were saying that cantor was maligning him, and calling him a liberal even saying a lot of things that eric cantor were saying in

nothing personal about eric cantor. he's a really nice guy. he came in as a raging conservative in 2001 and people had a lot of hopes for exic cantor but you can't go to the people claiming that you're going tough on immigration enforcement when last year you were touring the country with one of the primary movers of immigration reform on capitol hill. so, people weren't buying this idea that there was some tension. people saw right through that. look in the end they are different states, different considerations, different politicians, but in this race, with a house majority leader poised to sit down and work with ryan and boehner and democrats on the issue of immigration reform, bret doesn't like the word amnesty it's shorthand for basically keeping people in the country who are here illegally. the technical definition is irrelevant opinion that's where we are. it's extremely significant. it doesn't mean the issue is over. but i do believe if republicans continue to go down this road where people who have violated our laws and are living here

nothing personal about eric cantor. he's a really nice guy. he came in as a raging conservative in 2001 and people had a lot of hopes for exic cantor but you can't go to the people claiming that you're going tough on immigration enforcement when last year you were touring the country with one of the primary movers of immigration reform on capitol hill. so, people weren't buying this idea that there was some tension. people saw right through that. look in the end they are different states, different considerations, different politicians, but in this race, with a house majority leader poised to sit down and work with ryan and boehner and democrats on the issue of immigration reform, bret doesn't like the word amnesty it's shorthand for basically keeping people in the country who are here illegally. the technical definition is irrelevant opinion that's where we are. it's extremely significant. it doesn't mean the issue is over. but i do believe if republicans continue to go down this road where people who have violated our laws and are living here

nothing personal about eric cantor. he's a really nice guy. he came in as a raging conservative in 2001 and people had a lot of hopes for exic cantor but you can't go to the people claiming that you're going tough on immigration enforcement when last year you were touring the country with one of the primary movers of immigration reform on capitol hill. so, people weren't buying this idea that there was some tension. people saw right through that. look in the end they are different states, different considerations, different politicians, but in this race, with a house majority leader poised to sit down and work with ryan and boehner and democrats on the issue of immigration reform, bret doesn't like the word amnesty it's shorthand for basically keeping people in the country who are here illegally. the technical definition is irrelevant opinion that's where we are. it's extremely significant. it doesn't mean the issue is over. but i do believe if republicans continue to go down this road where people who have violated our laws and are living here

i think that's where we saw with eric cantor. he was trying to have it both ways. only a couple years ago, cantor was seen as the voice, so to speak, for the tea party within the leadership. the last couple years he seemed to be moderating his views a little bit. as someone said tonight, you can't have it both ways. live by the swortd, die by the sword. tonight eric cantor died by the sword. >> i want you to hear what eric cantor had to say tonight about his loss, then we will talk. >> i believe in this country. i believe there's opportunity around the next corner for all of us. so i look forward to continuing to fight with all of you for the things that we believe in, for the conservative cause, because those solutions of ours are the answer to the problems that so many people are facing today. thank you all very, very much. >> gloria, what's your reaction? what did he do wrong? >> under are lots of things he did wrong. first, in talking to republicans tonight, who say to me, to a person, that this was a reputation of eric cantor personally, that he failed politics

get rid of eric cantor.othing to do with dave brat. there were robo calls to democrats in that district wanting to get, telling democrats come out to the polls. can you vote, which is true. we have an open primary. get rid of eric cantor. so you see, it's always more complicated once you go beneath the surface. >> that's a key point, because the, there was talk about that. i was in the district last week. and there was talk about well, maybe there's going to be this organized effort to get democrats because democrats, remember, did not field a candidate in this race. and that's why in all likelihood, dave brat will be a congressman come november. >> there is a democrat. >> there is a democrat. >> oh, okay. >> yeah. there's a democrat. randolph macon college is the nominee. >> there's one issue here. the democrats knew they weren't going to win this district. that's the reason why we're talking about is there even a democratic candidate or not, which tells you how conservative this was. make no mistake about

eric cantor did surprisingly poorly in the places that he did well. wasn't just about a surge of turnout in thedistrictt are traditionally more difficult, more conservative for a more moderate cantor. he didn't do very well in the places inside the city of richmond and in the county where he was supposed to do well. so his own base, to it a degree, desserted him. >> dave brat. economics professor, a political novice who with very little money in this race, defeating the house majority leader eric cantor. it is a political story of political stories. we haven't had many of them yet in these primaries. this is one that we are going to cover extensively. we're going to have all the results. we'll have speeches, keep it here on fox news channel. if ...hey breathing's hard... know the feeling? copd includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis. spiriva is a once-daily inhaled copd maintenance treatment that helps open my obstructed airways for a full 24 hours. spiriva helps me breathe easier. spiriva handihaler tiotropium bromide inhalation powder does not rep

nothing personal about eric cantor. he's a really nice guy. he came in as a raging conservative in 2001 and people had a lot of hopes for exic cantor but you can't go to the people claiming that you're going tough on immigration enforcement when last year you were touring the country with one of the primary movers of immigration reform on capitol hill. so, people weren't buying this idea that there was some tension. people saw right through that. look in the end they are different states, different considerations, different politicians, but in this race, with a house majority leader poised to sit down and work with ryan and boehner and democrats on the issue of immigration reform, bret doesn't like the word amnesty it's shorthand for basically keeping people in the country who are here illegally. the technical definition is irrelevant opinion that's where we are. it's extremely significant. it doesn't mean the issue is over. but i do believe if republicans continue to go down this road where people who have violated our laws and are living here

now, eric cantor is moving on and new blood is coming in. at's part of politics and a good thing. i fear the takeaway will be a narrowing of the party. republicans shouldn't lose sight of cantor's important mission which is expanding the party. in the "crossfire" tonight, strategist kiki mclean and tim phillips. kiki, someone else who wants to expand the republican party maybe to his peril is jeb bush. i know you probably appreciate his position on immigration, but as a hillary supporter, aren't republicans like him who are open to immigration reform and pushing it, kind of your worst nightmare? >> well, not necessarily. now, i'm from south texas, so live looked at immigration and heard about immigration issues my entire life. and the fact of the matter is that as the map moves forward from the cycle of '14 to '16, to'18, the makeup, 2, 3, 4 cycles into redistricting of these districts will change dramatically. the fact you may have a republican running for president that believes in immigration, i say bring that on. that's good for the count

you know, people are saying eric cantor was not a nice guy. eric cantor's staff was horrible. eric cantor was running for speaker all the time. he was never in the district. all of that is true. but i can tell you from having reported on the tea party from the beginning, the immigration issue is the one thing that ties all of them together. >> yeah. >> and even if it wasn't front and center in what there are 20,000 dreamers inundating the 7th district, this issue of the border and the immigrants and the dream act and all of that stuff matters big-time. each in virginia. >> karen, there is a fox news host tweeted tonight something along the lines, and i'm slightly paraphrasing here, cantor's defeat shows you're either with the invaders or you're with us. >> i have to tell you, i saw a mail piece from a virginia campaign some years ago where literally you would have thought it bordered mexico, the rhetoric. >> exactly. >> that's part of the point here. the republican party, cantor is exemplary of what we have seen all along. he was trying to do one message at home and one messag

eric cantor is the first house majority leader ever to lose a primary. pretty much nobody predicted his downfall. and that includes the big national tea party groups, which spent zero dollars on political expenditures against cantor. david brat wasn't really even on the radar screen of national tea party groups, in part because he skipped a pair of meetings with conservative leaders last month. it seems that brat, college professor, had to deal with final exams instead. cantor's loss has cast the house republican caucus into chaos. at an emergency house gop meeting this afternoon, speaker john boehner reportedly shed tears as cantor spoke to his colleagues. and cantor, who is jewish, in fact, the only jewish member of the house caucus, reported a holocaust survivor and said, suffering is part of life, misery is a choice. cantor then stepped before the creamers to announce he would stepping down as majority leader. >> now, while i intend to serve out my term as a member of congress in the seventh district of virginia, effective july 31st, i will be steppin

amnesty at the end of a clear differentiator between myself and eric cantor. so it fits into the whole narrative and it also fits into the narrative that eric has not been present in the district and he was out of touch in supporting the chamber agenda on that one. i was door knocking. i know what's on the mind of the folks. >> would you call yourself an anti-wall street republican? >> i'm not anti-wall street, i'm anti-distortions to free markets. anything that distorts the free market i'm against. so when wall street goes astray, which they often do, i'm completely professional business but adam smith, the founder of premarket economics, when two or three business men get together, look out because collusion is right around the corners. until our founders were smart enough to know that. i'm not anti, but james madison knew that when we want, a lot of competing factions, many people competing against each other so that no one becomes a monopoly and has power. right now we have too many many princes up there in d.c. we need more competition, not less. >> let me

what does eric cantor's loss mean for the tea party and immigration reform. squoo a full-scale civil war may be breaking out in iraq. >>> why have whistleblowers on wall street paid with their jobs millions. >> an uber controversy - international protests break out over a popular car service. >> i'm antonio mora, welcome to "consider this". here is more on what is ahead. >> to wake up and say "what the heck?" >> no one saw this coming. >> this is a big deal. >> this is a miracle of god. >> the most significanting. >> eric cantor loft his seat. >> obviously we came up sport. it. >> all politics are local. >> while i intend to serve out my term i'll step down as majority leader. >> the situation is deteriorating in iraq. control. flee. >> they make al qaeda look like a minor league organization. >> taxi drivers are protesting a mobile apple. >> this is about tradition and technology. apt. >>> we begin with the upset stunning washington and gave tea party supporters a big victory this primary season. former republican rising star canelo said wednesday that -- er

for that, dave brat's opponent hammered away at eric cantor.before 8:00 p.m. tonight. and already, politicos from across the spectrum are declaring immigration reform dead as a result. what's your reaction to people reacting to this race and saying immigration reform is dead? >> i don't see the results of the election tonight as a referendum per say on the future on eric cantor's immigration reform and on the future of immigration reform. i see it as more of a referendum on his inaction on immigration reform. you have to remember that he was not a real friend of the immigration reform movement to begin with. as you just said, compared to a few years ago, when he supported the dream act. he walked away from the dream act. >> not only that, he backed off something called the kids act which was dream act like where undocumented immigrants could get legalization. then most recently the enlist act which would only allow some kids to enrole in the military, and possibly get citizenship. he's backed off, backed off, backed off, and meanwhile, he's sen

the defeat of soon-to-be ex-majority leader eric cantor. cantor is expected to announce later today he is stepping down from that position perhaps a t the end of july. needless to say, it has been a stunning 24 hours for mr. cantor, who 24 hours ago was a man near the top of the political food chain. the second most powerful man in the house of representatives who could tap limitless amounts of wall street cash for his campaigns. and who just a few years ago actually made his district even safer and more republican through redistricting. well, that guy, that guy lost his re-election primary on tuesday. and by lost, i mean he lost big. by the kinds of double digit margins that put an asterisk on a politician's reputation and their legacy. more shockingly for the political world, including the political media, because let's face it, none of us anticipated it, cantor lost to a political newcomer. a guy no one gave a prayer of winning. a virginia economics professor named david brat who had some tea party support, but not the kind of big money p

. >> but i thought eric cantor was the tea party.happened? >> well, that is an interesting point. he is. if you were in washington and analyze the house leadership, the republican party in the house, you would say that eric cantor is one of the real conservatives. that is not the way he was viewed by the rank and file, and that is what killed him. >> what was his undoing? was it, perhaps, his willingness to compromise on immigration reform? piece ofure that is a it. it is like everything. it is not one thing. i would guess more than anything, and i did not this coming. i was shocked last night, as i think just about everybody else was. i think there was a sense that he was from the district. >> it is interesting. i looked at my blackberry last night, and i thought it was a mistake. >> i did also. i think the single most surprising primary election return since i have been covering politics. >> it is different from when house speaker tom foley was defeated and when tom daschle was defeated in the senate, because that was in the genera

this architect of that obstruction was eric cantor. of the president's first inauguration, as the president was dancing at a ball, cantor was just blocks away at a private meeting plotting ways to obstruct the president. and just weeks later, he set the tone. and that plan went into motion. as minority whip, he made sure no house republican voted for the stimulus package. if president obama was for it, they were against it. then came health care and eric cantor brought props. >> mr. president, thank you, again, very much for having us and staying with us for the six hours. appreciate that. i don't know if you will after the six hours or not, but -- >> let me just guess, that's the 2,400-page health care bill, is that right? >> actually, mr. president, this is the senate bill, along with the 11-page proposal that you put up online. >> these are the kind of political things we do that prevent us from actually having a conversation. >> he was never interested in a conversation. in 2011 we had a debt ceiling standoff and it was eric cantor

eric cantor got trounsed by dave

a lot of left winning did not like eric cantor. democrats. but the real reason that democrat want to rejoice is they see trouble on the other side. they see a real disjointed party, and that, to them - listen, if you follow sports and see a team with an injury, you say "we have a better chance of beating them." in the game of politics they should be happy that democrats are not there. we didn't think david brat would win yesterday. it's not a fait accompli that david brat will win against the development in december. the point is in response to your question. democrats should be happy because if makes the republicans stop and re-assess. >> as always, good to have you both on the show. >>> while eric cantor's defeat may have left liberals cheering and thrown the g.o.p. into disarray, it could be disaster for immigration. a main attack was over eric cantor's willingness to find compromise on immigration laws, and whether that was or was not the reason for the con-most power of the -- second-most powerful in the house losing his primary. eric ca

right now the number two republican in the house, eric cantor, at a gop meeting trying to explain to his party what comes next after his shocking loss last night. we're expecting cantor to speak publicly for the first time since his concession speech. cantor will step down as house majority leader july 31st. now that he's been beaten, by david brat, economics professor who framed cantor as not conservative enough. according to "the washington post," cantor's own internal polling showed last month he had a 34-point lead over brat. so he probably never saw this stone flying out of the sling. >> obviously, we came up short. i know there's a lot of long faces here tonight and it's disappointing, sure. but i believe in this country. i believe there's opportunity around the next corner for all of us. >> the miracle that just happened, this is a miracle from god that just happened. that miracle did not just float down from heaven. that miracle went through a bunch of people across every county that worked tirelessly. >> the cantor campaign outspent the brat campaign by a ratio of 40-1. this

538 notes that eric cantor's pollsters say they've gotten many races wrong. to campaign operatives everywhere, maybe don't trust the guys who predicted a romney win in 2012. that said, cantor's seismic data fail was worse than that of team romney. it basically turned into an island of poll truthsters. in a post election autopsy that to keep pace with democrats the gop needs better data, better access to data and better tools to make the most of the data. over a year later, that data is still really pretty bad. the republican party has a serious data problem. something is deeply wrong with the gop's campaign structure if the party's presidential nominee and the house majority leader cannot rely on their pollsters. joining me now from atlanta is founder of citizen politics patricia murphy and correspondent for the uptimes, josh barrel. >> the problem is that data doesn't vote. people vote. and when you have a pollster getting in there polling likely republican voter, the problem is you're not sweeping in unlikely republican voters in the way that dave brought.

gwen: or we haven't mentioned the guy who beat eric cantor, on to something. >> and eric cantor is a jewish republican. this is a very rural conservative southern district where that is not -- you don't have a lot of jewish members of congress from the south. gwen: he's been elected several times from this district. >> i understand. >> been elected -- >> i don't think -- i don't think the faith of eric cantor had anything to do with it. i interviewed brett several times in april and may and someone who's a political amateur and professor of economics at randolph macon college. and he was talking in the typical tea party way. constitutional values. very conservative. we need a sea change in washington. and eric cantor -- >> also a lot of god in his rhetoric, too. >> that is true. >> and cultural identification matters. >> but i would agree with that. i think there was some rhetoric about faith. i just think he wasn't -- i don't know if that won him the race. but i think brat comes to washington and meets conservatives who are i think you're right and maybe not a lot of tea party peopl

eric cantor should have seen this coming.ot of people who were observing this race on the outside assumed that this would be a shoe in. but it wasn't. he has been slowly alienating many members of the seventh district for years. and the way he was organizing the local political party. ask and the fath that he was seen to go an advocate of immigration gre greg reformatim. marine was being held in mexico. he was in trouble and underestimated how much politics would come in to play. >> let me bring in joe watkins as well. what do you think of this one? >> it's a shot to a lot of us watching the race. but i think mr. brat has made point with the constituency on painting himself as a local guy who is well-versed on the issues, especially the economic issues and he will work with the district and he painted eric cantor as part of the power elite in washington and used the fact that he was the second highest ranking member of congress on the republican side against him successfully. and so tonight he is the winner. he's the nominee.

eric cantor had been har heir apparent for quite some time. he saw that boehner was likely to serve one more two-year term in house of representatives. cantor stepped down and it's clear. the power in the house look at the compromise in this congress. this was perhaps the final nail in the coffin in 2017 in the new administration. >> mike viqueira reporting from washington, and mike has confirmed that eric cantor will be leaving his position as leader--majority leader of the house by the end of july, jul july 31st. >>> officials are using an app to help men and women in the military. >> studying hard for the transition from military life to civilian life. something they both admit is intimidating. >> a little. i'm scared. i'm scared. i'm so used to this way of life, and already knowing what i'm supposed to do. >> i'm worried a little bit. i'm a father of two. i have two kids. it's not just me. >> getting out of the military is not as simple as saying i quit. the pentagon now requires service members to start planning a year ahead. it's essentia

eric cantor is a conservative. eric cantor would limit the size of government. eric cantor would put the paul ryan budget in there, eric cantor is not barack obama. and with all due respect, this guy ran a smart campaign in this sense, he demagogued two issues, he demagogued immigration, eric cantor, when it comes down for it is not for opening up the borders. he's for allowing people to come into the country with advanced degrees. so he demagogued them on that, and demagogued them on wall street. eric cantor gets money from goldman sachs his wife used to work at goldman sachs. this no name to be put over the top, plus the fact that democrats can crossover vote. you have all the combinations coming into play. let's be clear here, eric cantor -- this guy is not improvement over eric cantor. he's probably no more conservative? >> to charlie's point, this is not a vote against the tea party it's against the economy. the establishment better be on notice. >> charlie mentioned barack obama. i think that republicans have failed to concoct an alternative to everything

let's get to eric cantor. >> who you will not see in a suit any time soon either. >> gop lawmakers areposition. who are the front runners. >> representative mccarthy is the one that cantor prefers. there's other really conservative ones but i think we'll have a situation here where thing versus gotten to bad in the republican party that people are stabbing themselves in the front. it's going to be an interesting race. i think it's going to be all out in the open. >> yeah, you mention mccarthy. does he have an advantage, eric mccarthy since eric cantor helped groom him? >> yeah. i would think maybe the last thing that he wanted was an endorsement from eric cantor but there it is. i think that john bainer is spending a lot of time right now looking over his shoulder but have to say something here. we need to get a grip here. i don't think that this is the end of the republic. i don't think that history is going to be shaken by this for 100 years or more. i think this kind of thing happens. the speaker of the house, tom foley was beaten in a congressional race. >> that's true. >> right no

eric cantor did. that effectively put a nationwide tea party bull's eye on his back because they saw it as an affront he was flaunting the republican leadership disdain for the tea party. not cool not smart. i spoke with some cantor people this afternoon and this evening asking them how they felt about this and when they saw it coming and they argued convincingly they had a little bit of an itch about a week ago because they saw mr. brat getting a bit of traction.pratt getting traction. as late as this afternoon, they said they had no idea it was coming. this has pro found impolitics for republican house leadership. in an owed way it may fortify john boehner. with cantor and office below the speaker, it may strengthen boehner, raising questions about who would serve as majority weakened as a consequence of this. the tea party and tea party caucus in the house will have a lot of muscle flexing to do, taking this as a we warned you, we told you so. it means tea party races may get new energy and incumbe

eric cantor did. effectively put a nationwide tea party bull's eye on his back because they saw it as an affront he was flaunting the republican leadership disdain for the tea party. not cool not smart. i spoke with some cantor people this afternoon and this evening asking them how they felt about this and when they saw it coming and they argued convincingly they had a little bit of an itch about a week ago because they saw mr. brat getting a bit of traction.pratt getting traction. as late as this afternoon, they said they had no idea it was coming. this has pro found impolitics for republican house leadership. in an owed way it may fortify john boehner. with cantor and office below the speaker, it may strengthen boehner, raising questions about who would serve as majority leader. he is weakened as a consequence of this. the tea party and tea party caucus in the house will have a lot of muscle flexing to do, taking this as a we warned you, we told you so. it means tea party races may get new energy an

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