Stunning upset: House Majority Leader Eric Cantor loses Republican primary back home

Stunning upset: House Majority Leader Eric Cantor loses Republican primary back home
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In what is nothing less than a political earthquake, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has lost the Republican primary for Virginia's 7th District, to Tea Party challenger and college professor Dave Brat.

Brat based much of his campaign on opposition to Cantor's work on comprehensive immigration reform. And now the voters back home have both rewarded Brat with a tremendous upset victory — and utterly overturned any previous narratives about the GOP establishment winning its struggles against Tea Party insurgency.

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