House Majority Leader Eric Cantor Defeated In Primary

“The GOP establishment’s problem isn’t with the Tea Party. It’s with Republican voters,” said political analyst Stuart Rothenberg tonight.

The current tsunami of illegal immigrants coming across the border into the United States along with any hint of squishiness on amnesty for illegal aliens on the part of members of congress just may well spell doom for their congressional careers. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor just found this out.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost his primary race in Virginia because of the immigration issue.

In recent weeks, the House GOP leadership has been drifting towards amnesty for illegal immigrants. This has riled up the Republican Party's base and it came to a head tonight when Cantor lost his primary to Tea Party challenger David Brat. Paul Ryan had better take heed of this!

According to the Associated Press:

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- In an upset for the ages, Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia, the second-most powerful man in the House, was dethroned Tuesday by a little-known, tea party-backed Republican primary challenger carried to victory on a wave of public anger over calls for looser immigration laws. 

The outcome may well mark the end of Cantor's political career, and aides did not respond Tuesday night when asked if the majority leader, 51, would run a write-in campaign in the fall. 

But its impact on the fate of immigration legislation in the current Congress seemed clearer still. Conservatives will now be emboldened in their opposition to legislation to create a path to citizenship for immigrants living in the country illegally, and party leaders who are more sympathetic to such legislation will likely be less willing to try.

And at Newsmax.com:

Tea party advocates nationwide cheered the defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor by challenger Dave Brat in the Virginia Republican primary Tuesday, declaring it a harbinger of what's to come at the polls in November. 

"Cantor lost touch with the basic conservative principles on key issues we fight for," Washington lawyer Cleta Mitchell told Newsmax. She represents several tea party groups that have been targeted by the Internal Revenue Service.

"His loss should be a warning bell to the GOP establishment in D.C., particularly on fundamental issues such as voting rights and amnesty." 

Jenny Beth Martin, chairman of the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund, said that "analysts will be poring over election returns for months trying to explain how it was that a college professor who had never run for office before was able to defeat the second-most-powerful Republican in the House despite being outspent 15-to-1."

Republican establishment types had better start listening to and vote the concerns of the conservative base or they, too, will be out of a job. Just ask Eric Cantor.

Democrats should not take comfort in Cantor's defeat. They, too, could be swept away by voter anger over the immigration issue on top of the mess they and the Obama Administration made of this country.

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