The first House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has defeated by a Tea Party challenger David Brat on Tuesday
night. Eric Cantor has lost the Republican primary in Virginia’s
7th Congressional District to a college professor, David Brat and Cantor became
a second-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives.
Brat spent little money in the race while Cantor spent over a million
dollars.
The political media spent over a
days to find out what happened in a shock primary election result. On Tuesday
night it turns out to be the biggest upset of the year.
Eric cantor won the general
election more than 220000 votes in 2012, but now Brat beat him with 36,000
votes approximately. His defeat by Brat has spread shockwaves all over the
party members that makes difficult to face out 2014 primary election season.
The House majority position has
been invented since 1899 and No sitting majority leader has lost a primary renomination.
Cantor had known, near about in
final weeks that he was in trouble and he spent lot of money on negative advertising
against a little-known opponent.
Still, the shocking result gives
the Democratic Party a boost. Now, suddenly, Clinton has been knocked off the
front pages. The focus is squarely backed on the Republicans, and their
internal tribulations.
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