laura ingram is coming up behind you. she and mark levin, a couple others, this is being hailed as a talk radio victory. >> let me assist you. saying virginia 7 is 65, 70 miles from here. not a ton of budget needed to get down there and cover it. >> a gallon of gas. >> when it comes to the national media reporting on the tea party, i think it is a very diffuse movement. sometimes there are great candidates, sometimes wild card candidates that don't work. >> brat didn't have the backing of the national tea party group. >> exactly. that's a key point here. it's tough to know who is going to come out swinging and when. there's not a lot of action trying to put that into figuring out the tea party. a lot of dismissing going on. >> the morning after the primary, brat talked to chuck todd of msnbc. he couldn't answer the question about arming the rebels in syria. since then, no more interviews until now. did the media make it easier to pull this upset because he didn't have to answer reporters' questions? >> true. i would cut h

laura ingram and mark levin are both on the populist end of the republican party so it's not all that surprising that they'd want to see brad take down cantor but since both of them have taken a lot of money from conservative groups like americans for prosperity over the past few years there's good reason to be suspicious of why they're pushing so hard specifically for brat as political reporter a few months ago in what should have been a blockbuster story with but was ignored by the mainstream media filings with the internal revenue service in the federal election commission as well as interviews and reviews of radio shows found that conservative groups spent nearly twenty two million dollars to broker and pay for involved advertising relationships known. sponsorships with a handful of influential talkers including back hannity laura ingram mark levin and rush limbaugh since then the sponsorship deals have grown more lucrative and more tea party or in levin alone apparently took home seven hundred or took about seven hundred fifty seven thousand dollars from the koch backed americans

laura ingram and mark levin are both on the populist end of the republican party so it's not all that surprising that they'd want to see brat take down cantor but since both of them have taken a lot of money from conservative groups like americans for prosperity over the past few years there's good reason to be suspicious of why they're pushing so hard specifically for brat as political reporter a few months ago in what should have been a blockbuster story was but was ignored by the mainstream media filings with the internal revenue service in the federal election commission as well as interviews and reviews of radio shows found the conservative group spent nearly twenty two million dollars to broker and pay for involved advertising relationships known. sponsorships with a handful of influential talkers including back hannity laura ingram mark levin and rush limbaugh since then the sponsorship deals have grown more lucrative and more tea party orian live in alone apparently took home seven hundred or took about seven hundred fifty seven thousand dollars from the koch backed americans

saying that they're behind is victory just because they give money to mark levin and laura ingram for advertising and all their other deals like that is is not the case it's a stretch so why are they why then didn't see graham who's who's unabashedly in favor of comprehensive immigration reform when his primary was sixty percent and and eric cantor loses by a little while lindsey graham had multiple contenders in his race so yesterday he had one only one all the opposition centered around brat wall when gramm had six republican opponents he was able to divide them and it's also a little bit different in statewide elections a lot of these times it's harder for challengers the when it gets and it is under versus an incumbent is a problem you know the new york times was speculating today the cantor oversaw the redistricting of his own district the gerrymandering of his own district and just made it like super conservative is it possible that he made it so super conservative that it was too conservative for him and the new york times even took that a step further they said that there were

i want to play one from laura ingram. >> this is a massive wake-up call from the republican party if they choose to wake up at this point. >> laura was talking up brat, ewent to a fund-raising rally a week before the election. do you think laura ingram played a big part in his eventual win? >> yes. brat told me election night. they talked about him nonstop. they blasted canter on the regular and in the weeks before the election, brat was able to raise 15 thoughts which is peanut compared to what cantor had on hand. >> one of the legsens that we have to pay more attention to, who people like laura ingram are supporting and encourage. >> that said, they've had a lot of misses and pumped up a lot of people people like boehner who have not gone anywhere. brad was successful playing outside canter that he was outside the district. back in the district in richmond they don't care if he's the majority leader they want him at home. >> there's very little polling about this race. they had this headline june 6. shocked poll shows eric cantor struggling. even that found him to be ahead by not as

here is, laura ingram, with brat, last week. i kind of wish thinking about this that president obama would have thought this through a little bit more. and maybe, for getting sergeant bergdahl out, instead of sending five taliban, he could have traded one eric cantor. i have a crazy idea, coming to our country, respecting our laws, our sovereignty, our way of life, and our constitution, is a conditioned precedent to your becoming an american citizen. >> now, crazy or not, brat's idea seem headed to washington tonight and upset, up-ended washington republicans. some right now as we are reporting are jockeying for cantor's leadership post. others looking at tonight's results and wondering if they need to be more scared of the tea party. we'll be joined by former republican congressman, steve latourette, for our breaking coverage in a moment. first we'll go to nbc political director, chuck todd, and msnbc's, crystal ball. both join me on a big news night. chuck, this is why people follow politics and why politics is hard to follow.

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here is, laura ingram, with brat, last week. i kind of wish thinking about this that president obama would have thought this through a little bit more. and maybe, for getting sergeant bergdahl out, instead of sending five taliban, he could have traded one eric cantor. i have a crazy idea, coming to our country, respecting our laws, our sovereignty, our way of life, and our constitution, is a conditioned precedent to your becoming an american citizen. >> now, crazy or not, brat's idea seem headed to washington tonight and upset, up-ended washington republicans. some right now as we are reporting are jockeying for cantor's leadership post. others looking at tonight's results and wondering if they need to be more scared of the tea party. we'll be joined by former republican congressman, steve latourette, for our breaking coverage in a moment. first we'll go to nbc political director, chuck todd, and msnbc's, crystal ball. both join me on a big news night. chuck, this is why people follow politics and why politics is hard to follow.

there was an event last eke are laura ingram campaigned dependence eric cantor and for dave brat, and there were literally a thousand people there excited to see laura ingraham. she said there is something going on here. conservative anger dependence the washington establishment. excitement that there could be competition. and you have that and supporters in the general election, the piss community, member they all come out to support the primary. >> had a as his position. his position on immigration that may have cost him. >> he suggested some willingness to possibly support-- >> the marco rube crow plan. >> the marco rube crow plan that an allow immigrants or children of illegal immigrants to have some sort of eventually path to citizenship. if you ask the house or democrats nancy pelosi said eric cantor as not helpful to get the vote in immigration. >> credit, ho is this guy you're talking about. ho needs him. >> credit, he was standing in the way. but there as this drum beat that even suggesting that there should an vote, some steps of immigration reform some how should be defeate

where radio host, laura ingram had been campaigning for dave brat. she took a victory lap today. this was a seismic shift that took all of the establishment figures by surprise. the establishment media, the establishment punditry, the establishment political class. all of them were broadsided by this victory of dave brat's. >> we begin with the tea party activist who says she wasn't broadsided by the victory. sunny campaign ford dave brat, chairs the tea party patriots in virginia and ran her primary challenge against the former senator in 2012, george allen. you are in richmond. we are in new york. welcome. >> thank you. i appreciate it. >> exciting to have you here, especially, as i say you have been in the center of this. let me ask you your view, was the primary about conservative activists or winning or gop establishment losing? i think it was equally both. honestly. concern the grassroots here in the seventh district had had a problem. and eric cantor. going on five years. this was building if you were not here you wouldn't have tapped into it. it was a movement of the gras

i heard laura ingram earlier today say this was not a tea party win because the tea party didn't back brat alt all. they didn't give him any money. she was saying that brat couldn't even get the head of the local tea party group on the telephone. i tend to think with the lady just said on the phone talking to you as the way of the land. you asked the guy about lindsey graham in south carolina. lindsey graham was for immigration reform. he crushed this guy down in south carolina. i don't think immigration is bad. i think the people of virginia just got sick of cantor. this is news to me that people can cross over and vote. if what she is saying is true and the fact the president won virginia in the election, i think she is right. the tea party shouldn't be crowing because they didn't throw their hat in the ring. let's see what the outcome is. i think it is a good thing for america that they throw this guy out because i agree with the lady. boehner and all the republicans are just having no idea. when you hear the republicans talk, are you listeners, what are they selling you as an alte

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a laura ingram appearance in this case. number is a little deceiving.ould include transfers to other candidates. i highly doubt that $5 million was spent on himself. that is being reported -- he spent $5 million. is it possible that he could have spent this money on other races? caller: yes. exactly. i would have to look at the numbers. i highly doubt that he spent $5 million on this race. it would be a huge red flag. host: what does this do to leadership in the house? caller: it changes everything. it absolutely changes everything. , you would look at the way house republican leadership a structured -- you have a , a conference chair. they are all in a hierarchy. this completely shakes that up. conservatives have an opportunity to say that this is to shake do need things up in leadership. mccarthy, i'm getting all of my ducks in a row because he wants that majority leader spot. in this climate. a lot of conservatives in the house have been waiting for an opportunity like this to really change the leadership lineup. host: what is it need for the legisla

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he had laura ingram who rallied for him. but he didn't have money.nd outside groups did not provide resources or on the ground, you know, activity for him. and so i think it is more than ideology. he didn't talk about the tea party. he said, he was asked you want to be called a tea party candidate and he talked about his principles on economic freedom and liberty. i think it is it more about, it is more about connecting and keeping in touch and doing the fundmental and look atted that cochran in mississippi. there is a divide between him and chris mcdaniel. are you in the district or listening to people and are you doing the town halls and is your staff respond to the daily e-mails and calls. and in the autopsy in the cantor case it will be shown that most of his focus was in washington and outside of his district. >> that is on the tv sets on capitol hill. they are glued to what you are saying. not onlied that cochran and lam arson son faces carl. and thank you for your insights and good lessons for those. >> and jenna? >> david brat blamed cantor o

. >> reporter: laura ingram, a radio host, and mark levine another popular radio host, they both gave a ton of air time in terms of appearances and talking about the race. again, two radio shows that have extreme penetration in the richmond, virginia, area. when you add to that news organizations like brett bart tee party favorite, with that dave brat wastable overcome the spending gap because of the free media he got from talk radio. >> the country knows who dave brat is today, that's for sure. you're back later. david shuster. we'll dig in deeper what this could mean for the republican party as a whole and the congress' ability to compromise, yeah, that is a funny word. >>> in other news iraq's government appears to be on its heels trying to repeal attacks from the islamic state of iraq. 23 people have been killed. the army is trying to keep control. isil fighters began the defensive, and it has controlled of anbar province, which it has held for six months now. >> reporter: one of the biggest refineries burn. they mounted the attack early tuesday morning quickly overrunning securit

. >> this right wing, laura ingram, she's a talk [ bleep ]. >> are you working the media?you watch every show? you follow what is going on. ? with redivided politically? >> we are. it's been beneficial for ratings. we've decided we'll buy for kate along political lines officially in the press and cable news and what have you -- >> in the old days, we had duals in this country. maybe we had improvement? >> we did. you had political papers that were owned by individuals who had political access to grind in the 19th century. this is a reassertion of a philosophy guiding political media back in the olden days. we're back there again when you have an unregulated media environment, which is a good thing. >> i agree with that. >> when you look at the class welfare, race card, child card, grandma card, trying to put different age groups or individuals against one another and that keeps the message that is trying to be delivered to americans, especially from my perspective, conservative as i mentioned, personal responsibility, smaller government, less spending, when you bring in th

laura ingram let me get back to you on this. as bret points out different results in different places. i know you wanted to respond to bret's remarks about how this is not amnesty that eric cantor was back being but that's how it's been painted by his opponents and, you know, that's how it's going to continue to pop up in the news. the democrats, however, i want to get to this with you as well are celebrating eric cantor's loss tonight saying, and putting out a statement saying for those who have fallen into the trap of believing the gop has suppressed the tea party tonight that theory is put to rest. could there be a clearer rejection of the establish pept from the republican base than this defeat. the tea party is alive and well now goes by the name gop. these are not compliments on his part. >> who is shocked about that. if dave brat had lost, they would be putting out a press release that says we're one step closer to immigration reform because eric cantor is much more moderate he wants to do the dream act, so none of that s

i mean he did have a platform that laura ingram, conservative talk show host, had, but they stayed outhe one hand i hear you all saying grassroots. part of what i wanted to do is draw attention to just how few people voted. certainly more than in a convention, but how should i understand if i'm a virginia voter, how should i understand the context in which such a small proportion of people make this choice and now i no longer get to vote for eric cantor if i wanted to? >> it was a very small proportion, as you mentioned, but turnout actually increased this year as opposed to the last primary. so if we're talking 65,000 people, that's still a very small number if we're talking about power of the people. who are these people? it's not the entire district. >> but there's something to the said to the notion that over 700,000 people in that district, only 65,000 showed up to vote. what if they were overconfident, just as cantor was overconfident. the truth of the matter, you can't be overcasonfident. >> stick with me because i want to think a little more about this and the ways in which mon

. >> you know, susan, radio host who's very right wing, laura ingram played a big role in eric cantor's loss. there was still animosity this weekend. watch this. >> listen, i'm not into blaming anybody. i will say that suggestion that i should have been traded to the taliban for sergeant bergdahl really is not a serious contribution to a public policy debate. >> this was a win for grassroots activists on the ground for virginia. >> he can't take a joke. prisoner swap. he has no sense of humor. that's why he lost. >> this back and forth play only help helps the democrats and doesn't seem to be dissipating. >> i think that's the case. eric cantor is right in a way about the immigration thing. his problem wasn't that he was too pro immigration, certainnan pelosi doesn't think he was. the reason he was doing that is he was so nervous about the reaction from people in his district about any thought of any kind of immigration reform. that is going to give candidates problems this fall. i think the governor is right. it will give them more problems in 2016. you have states like georgia that ar

laura ingram, she is a talk slut. >> noah, you work in the media. are we divided. >> you watch every show, you follow what's going on. are we really divided politically now? >> yeah, we are divided politically. it has been beneficial for ratings. we are going to by fur kate along pol can lines in the political press and what have you. >> there are abduls in this country so maybe we had improvement. >> we did. you have political papers all owned by individuals who had political axes to grind and this is a reassertion of a philosophy that was guiding political media back in the golden days. we are back there again when you have an unregulated environment which is by the way a good thing. >> what is will divisiveness when you look at the race card the grandma card trying to pit different age groups or individuals against one another. that keeps the message that is trying to be delivered to america especially from my perspective conservative as we mentioned personal responsibility, smaller government, less spending. when you bring in the other aspects o

but laura ingram was very supportive. even held a rally for brat in virginia. the top of her website said vote brat today. ann coulter supported him. and i think they are going to be getting credit in the days to come. tonight on fox news, megyn mentioned it. >> maybe they overestimated the power of the kind of republican that would go out and vote for eric cantor in a primary that people aren't used to being a part of in his district. primaries aren't very common in his district. i know it sounds like we're getting to the weeds here, but the weeds matter in grassroots politics. technically on this huge story. and i described a little bit, perhaps, how over confident the cantor people were. that clearly translated into what you have to do on election day, which is get your voters out, and they didn't, clearly didn't do that enough. and that is absolutely critical of another just anecdote i will tell you is that i'm told that the chamber of commerce, which is a big establishment group so to speak that has gone in to have a lot of incumbent this is year with a lo

as laura ingram said, mcdaniel ran a tea party race in an open primary. that's stupid. if you are too stupid to win an election don't whine and say the other side cheated. >> i want to get back to the point about the future for the tea party movement in mississippi and a candidate like mcdaniel. you are saying you would rather have a democrat win this thing in the fall than have your candidate. you are talking about the republican process or if you are a democrat, the sanctity is you give it your best shot. play by the rules. if you win, congratulations. the other guy supports you. if you lose, you support the other guy. >> normally we vote conservative in the primary and republican in the general election. in this case the democratic-opponent was opposed to obamacare. he's anti-gun law and may be more conservative than thad cochran who has a history of big spending and for this guy with the republican establishment guy to talk about how the republicans and giving obama a blank check you passed every continuing resolution. we have a $17 trillion debt. you promised to cu

and the anti-cantor campaign caught fire in the radio wing of the campaign, particularly with laura ingram. >> maybe instead of getting imagine bergdahl out, instead of sending five taliban mvps over there, we could have sent one eric cantor. >> he has been pushing amnesty yet he has the impertinence to tell his constituents that he's standing up to obama. he's lying through his teeth. >> this is the ultimate establishment gop against the tea party candidate. if eric cantor gets in and is re-elected, we are going to have amnesty. do you believe that? >> i don't believe it. i know it as a fact. >> national tea party groups who spent no money opposing cantor had nothing to do with this victory. it was truly driven by grass roots, by talk radio and spurred on by angst at the local level. what does this mean, though, nationally? number one, immigration reform dead and it's probably dead for the rest of the obama presidency. even if plenty of national republicans wish that wasn't the case, want to point to lindsey graham, republicans will not touch it. chuck schumer tried to argue all is well,

then conservative radio host laura ingram and mark divine challenged david brat to a stunning win overntor in virginia. now the tea party has momentum. back down in mississippi where they hope they can beat the 76-year-old thad dock ran in tomorrow's primary run-off. in the new poll out today shows mcdaniel headed into tomorrow's run-off election with an eight-point lead over thad cochran, the incumbent. the post writes while thad cochran stumps on years of bringing federal spending back to mississippi the mcdaniel campaign has tapped into a feeling that the country is slipping away. his bet, more voters will turn out for a revolution than highway spending. sam hall the clarion ledger of jackson, mississippi. and amy kramer is a tea party activist. thank you both. speak your minds. sam, what's the feeling among tea party people that animates them most today? >> i think there is genuine anger now at what they perceived as some of the dirty tactics the docken ran tam pain is doing reaching out to democratic voters. they feel they are inviting them into the primary and it wouldn't be an a

laura ingram let me get back to you on this. as bret points out different results in different places. i know you wanted to respond to bret's remarks about how this is not amnesty that eric cantor was back being but that's how it's been painted by his opponents and, you know, that's how it's going to continue to pop up in the news. the democrats, however, i want to get to this with you as well are celebrating eric cantor's loss tonight saying, and putting out a statement saying for those who have fallen into the trap of believing the gop has suppressed the tea party tonight that theory is put to rest. could there be a clearer rejection of the establish pept from the republican base than this defeat. the tea party is alive and well now goes by the name gop. these are not compliments on his part. >> who is shocked about that. if dave brat had lost, they would be putting out a press release that says we're one step closer to immigration reform because eric cantor is much more moderate he wants to do the dream act, so none of that s

. >> joining me now, laura ingram, who is a chris mcdaniel supporter in mississippi. what do you make of these numbers so far. is it tighter than you expected it to be in mississippi? >> no, not really. haley barbour is from the most maherful family in mississippi politics. haley barbour is probably the most powerful influential lobbyist in the united states. he made sure after that first election go-round. they were going to put together as much momentum for thad cochran. he was first elected in 1978 during the carter administration. >> i thought it was 36 years ago. >> 1971. i don't know. >> '72, i guess it is. i was one year old. >> megan, what barber did, he -- and this has all been discussed. he put together -- a late coalition of liberal democrats to turn out for cochran. they know cochran is a big spender, and if he can bring money back to the state, he'll do it. importantly, we'll see black liberal democrats in mississippi. ricky cole came on my radio show a few days ago, he said, i see walking around money being dolled out on the streets here. he was dismayed

laura ingram let me get back to you on this. as bret points out different results in different places. i know you wanted to respond to bret's remarks about how this is not amnesty that eric cantor was back being but that's how it's been painted by his opponents and, you know, that's how it's going to continue to pop up in the news. the democrats, however, i want to get to this with you as well are celebrating eric cantor's loss tonight saying, and putting out a statement saying for those who have fallen into the trap of believing the gop has suppressed the tea party tonight that theory is put to rest. could there be a clearer rejection of the establish pept from the republican base than this defeat. the tea party is alive and well now goes by the name gop. these are not compliments on his part. >> who is shocked about that. if dave brat had lost, they would be putting out a press release that says we're one step closer to immigration reform because eric cantor is much more moderate he wants to do the dream act, so none of that s

laura ingram let me get back to you on this. as bret points out different results in different places. i know you wanted to respond to bret's remarks about how this is not amnesty that eric cantor was back being but that's how it's been painted by his opponents and, you know, that's how it's going to continue to pop up in the news. the democrats, however, i want to get to this with you as well are celebrating eric cantor's loss tonight saying, and putting out a statement saying for those who have fallen into the trap of believing the gop has suppressed the tea party tonight that theory is put to rest. could there be a clearer rejection of the establish pept from the republican base than this defeat. the tea party is alive and well now goes by the name gop. these are not compliments on his part. >> who is shocked about that. if dave brat had lost, they would be putting out a press release that says we're one step closer to immigration reform because eric cantor is much more moderate he wants to do the dream act, so none of that s

a couple of talk show hosts -- >> laura ingram. >> exactly. from the ground up. being a leader has its costs. it's a very unpopular congress. think of a congressional leader that's held in high esteem by constituents. almost all of them have problems back home. this is an electorate very upset with the direction of the country and a chance to protest. one other thing, in november, this doesn't portend good things for the democrats who control the presidency at the senate. these people are going to be coming out in november against democrats. but cantor was their object on tuesday and they defeated him. >> the following about the leadership race that's coming up to succeed cantor, quote, the next month is going to be fascinating, probably ending terribly for the country. reminder, this is a republican source. because we're going to end up with one, maybe two people in republican house leadership who don't qualify as grown-up and/or ready for prime time. terrified of the promises some will have to make to win. what do you think? >> i don't agree with that at all. n

laura ingram was a huge supporter for brat. maybe that helps carr.oining me now, susan paige and the washington post chief correspondent dan balz. this shakeout and watching the house leadership not respond to it has been to me the most surprising thing. it's almost as if boehner wants to lock down some power and the establishment wants to lock in their power rather than try to create a -- use this as a moment of outrage. >> an olive branch? >> yeah. >> but chuck, these are very personal fights, these leadership battles. we embue a lot of ideological aspects to them, but this is an inside game played by inside players. >> and it does seem as though scalise is using this, hey, there were no red state republicans in the leadership and pete roskum is another blue state republican. maybe, you know, so hey you ought to get behind me and maybe that does work for a number three position. >> and it's a red state party. but as dan was saying, it's not as though we have two wings fighting over the vietnam war or the civil rights act. this is mostly a fight ove

like glenn beck or rush limbaugh or the hostility spewed from fox news types like sean hannity or laura ingram. we have to be honest about what's happening here. it used to be this was fringe crazy talk. now it's mainstream. now, look, amanda and jared committed the murders. but for the republican -- the leadership in the republican party to say we have no responsibility is almost dark humor. from -- look, they created this whole notion. how did they do it? they did it by repeating these narratives. we have heard them. michael, you have reported on them. msnbc has carried these stories forever. the government has created death panels. how about that? where was that created? that was created not just by the hate talkers on radio or tv. it was created by republican leadership. the government has built fema prison camps for vocal critics. where did that come from? it came from the michele bachmann s and the sarah palins, repeated again and again. anti-government. or the government has a plan to take our guns and make us their subjects. where did that come from? rush limbaugh says it, glenn beck s

. >> joining us on the phone is laura ingram who was instrumental. campaigned for brad, rallied for brad and must be very pleased with the results. your take on it, laura. >> i was just celebrating my son's 6th birthday when i noticed my phone going off. i just heard the stunning news. look, i have been catching a little bit what you all have been saying on the panel. i want to add this. on a beautiful day a week ago, tuesday night, 623 people showed up at eric cantor's own country club in glen allen, virginia. they could have done anything else that night. it just wasn't tea party folks. people from all different back grounds who were really tired of the representation that they have been getting, they weren't particularly people who da lot. politics before. i had a chance to chat with a lot of them. they are tired of the business as usual in washington. they are tired of the establishment mindset that sheriff's office this idea that amnesty is the only way for the republican party to survive. and they made a difference. and this is a massive wake up

the former charles koch foundation the cato institute and that you had several talk radio hosts laura ingram and mark levin principly who according to politico received hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars from the koch brothers so there was you know some real pull those low there and then you know leaf on points out that he went back and listened to four hours of dave brat speeches yesterday and he said they're all popular. he said the guy is sounds like a little bit worried constantly trashing the bankers and big business and well i'm curious your take on well it is an interesting mixture you know the truth is you had on one and you had cancer saying that he was a people's candidate and i think i was glad to see that least the voters saw through that cantor was so tied into wall street that he was just one of them it was just such a lie the it and you had this candidate that was smart enough to focus on a couple of things a focus on immigration because he knows that the that would give rise to the tea party turnout but more importantly he started sounding truthful he started so

as laura ingram gaesaid, mcdani was running a tea party race.f you're too stupid to win an election don't whine about it the next day and say the other side cheated. as for me, i'm a strange guy. >> correct. >> i was excited as a republican when african-americans supported me. i was excited when i would go to precincts where there were african-americans and i would get 50% of the vote. as a right wing republican with a 96% acu rating. i thought that was a good thing. to actually expand the party base, for whatever reason! we republicans have been averaging 8%, 10% among african-american voters in presidential elections, donny deutsche. that is dismal. richard nixon the last republican president to get a high percentage of african-american voters. and we have people freaking out that there was a candidate in the national republican party that was actually able to get republican voters. i mean, get african-americans to vote in republican primaries. i tried to get african-americans to switch over in republican primaries to vote for me and the respo

his tea party platform drew support from influential independent conservative pundits including laura ingram>> these are good people. >> he was one of the most vocal backers. >> remember what tea party stands for. >> he angered some conservatives by voting to raise the debt ceiling and backing legislation that would grant legal status to some immigrants brought to the u.s. illegally as children. his primary loss delighted tea party leaders. one called it an apocalyptic moment for the gop establishment while the chair of the national committee said it's clear the gop has redefined far right. >> this is truly a political earthquake. >> blut virginia political expet says it may all have to do with his own political ambition. >> everyone knew for years he's wanted to be speak of the house. unfortunately for him it's caused him to flip-flop a lot. his image became fuzzy at times because he tried to be all things to all people. >> and his defeat leaves a major power vacuum in house republican leadership. already they're jockeying for his position as house majority leader and for his title as heir

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political groups on this race and people like sarah tail end came to the state and talkshow host laura ingram this day. why didn't their message take hold in mississippi? >> i think it did take hold to some degree but it shows the republican party is closely divided. he didn't shy away from his support for earmarks or protect military installations. he talked all that up and talked up his seniority. that did appeal to eight old-school republican voter. on the other hand his ted cruz style republicanism appeal to another part of the party. it a show that republicans really are divided and the republican war as is war as a cell phone war as is often called is not ending. he ending. you will see primaries in mississippi going forward and you will see this divide again and again. >> going forward how would we compare this tea party lost tonight here in mississippi and oklahoma james langford winning their his candidate supported by tea party group sent david pratt the surprise winner in virginia. has the tea party ascended or losing some of their influence? >> in some ways eric cantor was an outl

one of the things eric cantor had in virginia was laura ingram and talk radio.lly get a sense of that here. what we'll be watching is thad cochran's race in mississippi. if the tea party candidate can win there and beat cochran, who has some similarities with roberts, then i do think national attention will turn to kansas. some money mietd coght come in, more national tea party energy and that would help milton wolf as we head to the kansas primary. >> thanks for getting up this morning. the candidate whose defeat handed ted kennedy's seat to scott brown, that candidate is on the verge of a comeback. maybe until yesterday. it's a big breaking news story. we'll have all the details, next. ♪ ♪ yeah ♪ don't stop now, come on mony ♪ come on, yeah ♪ i say yeah ♪ yeah ♪ yeah ♪ yeah ♪ yeah ♪ yeah ♪ yeah ♪ 'cause you make me feel ♪ like a pony ♪ so good ♪ like a pony ♪ so good ♪ like a pony [ male announcer ] the sentra with bose audio and nissanconnect technology. spread your joy. nissan. innovation that excites. ♪ mony mony innovation that excites. so i can reach ally

this victory is the proof in the pudding, but, another person is laura ingram from fox news.ing to do with his win. not one major tea party organization came out to endorse brat. the question is this, why does or how does the tea party have any basis to claim this win? >> well, first of all, the tea party, there are national groups, but the strength of the movement is on a local level. without the groups across the country and the people on the local level, the national groups have no role, what would they do. when you say tea party, tea party is all about fiscal responsibility, limited government and free market. anybody can be, claim the label of tea party or use the label. a lot of people are tea party and don't want to use that label. he is a conservative. he ran on conservative principals and values and that's how he won. the people in that district did the hard work. it's boots on the ground. passion. fire in the belly. that can't be bought. >> it was interesting via one of the trending hashtags on twitter was #fully classed. i think one of the first questions for a lot

weighed in on immigration -- also, the tea party patriots said -- then you also had on twitter, laura ingramconservative radio talkshow host who campaigned in the seventh congressional district for his opponents -- it does not sound like she is in favor of kevin mccarthy taking over as number two. here is francis underwood. -- the names from is from " house of cards." speaker john boehner had this tweet yesterday -- we will go to charlie in new york, tea party member, go ahead. caller: good morning, here is the problem -- john boehner is a liberal. eric cantor is a liberal. principaladers of a party and the leadership of both parties are liberals. that's why this country is in such a mess. liberals destroy everything that they touch. host: why do you say those folks are liberal? caller: in 2010, didn't they promise to defund obamacare? have they done that? no, of course not. if we had true conservative leadership in the house, they would defund obamacare, the department of education, the department of energy, the epa -- have they done any of that? no, because they are liberals. ynn in housto