Political Earthquake: Unpacking Eric Cantor’s Stunning Primary Defeat (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

Eric Cantor, defeated. Republican icon. House Majority Leader. Lined up to be Speaker of the House. Gone down in flames in his primary election battle in his congressional district in Virginia. The winner: Tea Party purist Dave Brat. It’s an earthquake in Washington. House majority leaders don’t lose primaries. But Cantor has. The Tea Party was said to be waning. Not in Cantor’s district. Money? Cantor was loaded. Brat was not. Brat won. Now come the aftershocks, on Capitol Hill and beyond. This hour On Point: the primary defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. / Tom Ashbrook
Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2014/06/11/why-did-eric-cantor-lose