Larry Kudlow said if he lived in Mississippi he'd vote for Chris McDaniel. Both Larry and Steve Moore on John Batchelor show tonight said they thought Chris McDaniel would win over Thad Cochran

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6/10/14, Larry Kudlow and Steve Moore were both guests on the opening segment of John Batchelor's radio show tonight, 6/10,  discussing the Dave Brat upset victory over GOP House Majority leader Eric Cantor and how it might affect other races this year. Both Mr. Kudlow and Mr. Moore said they think in Mississippi Chris McDaniel is going to win anyway. Larry Kudlow specifically said if he lived in Mississippi he'd vote for Chris McDaniel.

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6/10/14, "House Majority Leader Cantor defeated in primary," AP, Alan Suderman, Richmond
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"House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was defeated Tuesday by a little-known economics professor in Virginia's Republican primary, a stunning upset and major victory for the tea party."...

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6/10/14, Front page of NY Times website:

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"If Eric Cantor can lose, what must Mississippi's Thad Cochran be thinking?"

6/10/14, "Lessons for other Republicans in Cantor's shocking loss," LA Times, Doyle McManus

"Just when you thought the tea party was in decline, it rears up and topples another icon.

Eric Cantor, the House majority leader and understudy to Speaker John A. Boehner, lost the primary election in his central Virginia district by a convincing margin, 56% to 44%. He had been a member of the House since 2001 and was running for his eighth term.

The winner was David Brat, a little-known college professor who accused Cantor of being insufficiently conservative -- especially, soft on immigration. Cantor had tried to steer a middle path on immigration issues, opposing the broad immigration reform bill the Senate passed last year but championing a Republican version of the Dream Act that would enable some undocumented immigrants who entered the country as children to qualify for in-state college tuition rates. Brat and others condemned that as “amnesty.”

The result stunned Washington, where Cantor was viewed as a wily power-broker and a future speaker of the House. On Tuesday morning, the Washington Post had forecast: “The question in this race is how large Cantor’s margin of victory will be. If he wins by more than 20 points, it will likely quell rumblings about his popularity back home.”

“This is an earthquake,” former Republican Rep. Vin Weber told the Washington Post on Tuesday evening.

And Brat never came close to Cantor in fundraising; he raised only about $200,000, compared with Cantor’s $2 million. That didn’t matter.

Lessons for other Republicans, especially Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), who faces a tough GOP primary runoff in two weeks:

The tea party insurgency is still there; ignore it at your peril. Cantor was guilty of neglecting his district in favor of national politicking.

The issue of immigration reform stokes high passions on both sides; regrettably, there seems to be no middle anymore.

And in a low-turnout primary election, a little bit of grass-roots organizing goes a long way -- and a scrappy challenger can still shock the national establishment. Brat’s thumping majority came in a GOP primary in which only about 65,000 voters showed up for both candidates combined. Cantor won 223,000 votes in his last general election in 2012; he managed to persuade fewer than 13% of those voters, about 28,000, to turn out for him Tuesday.

California note: Next in line to Cantor as majority leader is Kevin McCarthy, the Republican whip, who represents Bakersfield. Luckily for McCarthy, he won his Republican primary last week -- unopposed."

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6/10/14, "Cantor Loses," Politico, Jake Sherman, Richmond, Va.

Dave Brat

"House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was toppled on Tuesday night in the most shocking primary defeat since Republicans took the House in 2010.

Dave Brat, a local economics professor who had tea party support, became the second challenger to defeat a House incumbent this primary season. Texas Republican Ralph Hall lost to a tea party insurgent at the end of May.

Brat also halted one of the most meteoric rises in national politics, and his win illustrates the strong anti-incumbent fever that has taken over Cantor’s Richmond-area district.

(Full primary election results)

Cantor’s defeat not only reorders Virginia politics, where Cantor was the highest-ranking Republican, but it completely throws the House Republican leadership into flux. Cantor, 51, was long seen as the next speaker of the House after John Boehner retires." Image: Dave Brat from The Bull Elephant

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6/10/14, "The decision by Boehner and Cantor to face down their Tea Party wing was thought to have taken the momentum out of the upstart movement."...UK Guardian

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Comment: To Steve Moore: You said you thought a lot of the anti-Cantor vote was really an anti-Obama vote. This couldn't be further from the truth. Obama isn't the issue. The issue is the GOP Establishment. As long as you fail to recognize this you'll be part of the problem. The GOP E destroyed this country and handed it to the radical left. If it weren't Obama it would be someone like him. Please get over your idea that Obama has anything to do with what's going on now. Obama only does what the GOP--the supposed opposition party--lets him do. Which is everything. These same GOP should have retired from public life in disgrace long ago. Failing that they should have apologized to us for destroying the country, listed the mistakes made during 8 years of George Bush, listed mistakes they personally made during George Bush, and what if anything they were doing to reverse course and undo the damage of the past two decades.



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