memeorandum: Eric Cantor defeated — amnesty suspected (Paul Mirengoff/Power Line)

11:30 PM ET, June 10, 2014

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Jake Sherman / Politico:

CANTOR LOSES — RICHMOND, Va. — It wasn't enough that Eric Cantor spent $1 million in the weeks leading up to the election, when his conservative foe hardly had $100,000 in his campaign coffers. — It didn't matter that the House majority leader, 51, branded Dave Brat a liberal hack …

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Robert Costa / Washington Post:

Eric Cantor succumbs to tea party challenger Tuesday — In a stunning upset propelled by tea party activists, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) was defeated in Tuesday's congressional primary, with insurgent David Brat delivering an unpredicted and devastating loss to the second …

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Katherine Miller / BuzzFeed:

Ted Cruz's Staff Seems Pretty Excited That Eric Cantor Lost — “Is DC listening yet?” — Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost in stunning fashion Tuesday night to tea party challenger Dave Brat. — Lucas Jackson / Reuters / Reuters — View Entire List ›

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

Alan Suderman / Associated Press:

HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER CANTOR DEFEATED IN PRIMARY — RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost in his Republican primary election Tuesday to a little-known economics professor, a stunning upset for the GOP's No. 2 in the House and a major victory for the tea party.

Discussion: Politico, Scared Monkeys, Vox Popoli and The Mahablog

Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:

Eric Cantor Loses To Tea Party Primary Challenger — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's (R-VA) lost to tea party primary challenger David Brat in the Republican primary on Tuesday. — The race was called at about 8:05 p.m. Cantor lost to primary challenger David Brat.

Discussion: Business Insider and Hit & Run

Allahpundit / Hot Air:

Open thread: Tonight's the night we retire Eric Cantor and Lindsey Graham; Update: Cantor in deep trouble early; Update: Cantor loses? Update: AP calls it for Dave Brat — I know that headline's egregiously incorrect, I just ... wanted to experience it. Just once.

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Conservatives4Palin, Talking Points Memo, National Review, Patterico's Pontifications, Doug Ross and Ed Driscoll

Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:

Eric Cantor defeated — amnesty suspected — Remember those polls that purported to show that most Republicans, and maybe even most Tea Party members, support amnesty and a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants? I guess the pollsters forgot to survey Republicans in Eric Cantor's district in central Virginia.

John Parkinson / ABC News:

Meet The Tea Party Challenger Who Took Down Eric Cantor … House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., has lost his GOP primary to conservative challenger Dave Brat in Virginia's 7th Congressional District, according to the Associated Press. — Here's a profile ABC News' John Parkinson did of Brat in May:

Discussion: Yahoo! News, ABC News and The PJ Tatler

Fox News:

Cantor upset in Virginia GOP primary by Tea Party backed challenger — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Virginia, at the Siemens Energy Hub in Charlotte, N.C. — In a stunning upset, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost the GOP Virginia primary Tuesday night to Dave Brat, an economics professor and political novice.

Discussion: NewsBusters and Fox News Insider

Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:

For Sen. Lindsey Graham, 50 percent is the only number that matters today — Voters head to the polls today in six states to cast ballots in a the latest round of primary and runoff elections in the heart of nominating season. The marquee congressional contest is in South Carolina …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, New York Times, Real Clear Politics, Business Insider, Los Angeles Times, The Week and The Agonist

Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Eric Cantor Defeated by Dave Brat, Tea Party Challenger, in Primary Upset

Discussion: The Dish

Politico:
The GOP leadership scramble

Discussion: Balloon Juice

Jonathan Martin / New York Times: Lindsey Graham Wins Big Over Tea Party Challenger

Russell Berman / The Hill:
Cantor out in Tea Party shocker

Discussion: Politico

Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Who Is David Brat? Meet the Economics Professor Who Defeated Eric Cantor

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Philip Elliott / Associated Press:
News Guide: Primary Elections Tuesday in 6 States

Discussion: Politico

CNN:
Big upset: No. 2 House Republican Eric Cantor loses primary

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Jack Fitzpatrick / NationalJournal.com:
Eric Cantor's Unusually Expensive, Surprisingly Negative Primary Campaign

Discussion: Washington Post, National Review, Guardian and Fox News

Shushannah Walshe / ABC News:
Eric Cantor Loses Primary to Tea Party Challenger In Huge Upset

Discussion: ABC News and susiemadrak.com

Washington Monthly:
The Big Lobotomy — Last September, as they scrambled to decide …

Discussion: Booman Tribune

Lauren French / Politico:
House passes VA bill

Discussion: CNN and Washington Monthly

Washington Post:

One way to end violence against women? Married dads. — The data show that #yesallwomen would be safer with fewer boyfriends around their kids. — The dramatic social media response to the UC-Santa Barbara shooting, captured by the hashtag #YesAllWomen, underlined an important and unpleasant truth …

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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
WaPo Editorial Page Goes Neanderthal For Second Time In A Week

Discussion: Washington Post, The Other McCain and The Huffington Post

ThinkProgress:
All Of The Things Women Are Supposed To Do To Prevent Rape

Discussion: Slate, BuzzFeed, Bloomberg View and Cosmopolitan

Jennifer Medina / New York Times:

Judge Rejects Teacher Tenure for California — LOS ANGELES — A California judge ruled Tuesday that teacher tenure laws deprive students of their right to an education under the state Constitution and violate their civil rights. The decision hands teachers' unions a major defeat in a landmark case …

Discussion: CNN, Kuranga, Daily Kos, National Review, Liberaland, Gawker, Outside the Beltway, Washington Post, Hit & Run, Hot Air, Hullabaloo, The PJ Tatler, Joanne Jacobs and Althouse

Stephanie Simon / Politico:
California teachers unions lose big in court

Discussion: The Daily Signal and Diane Ravitch's blog

Erik Wemple / Washington Post:

ABC News's Diane Sawyer destroys Hillary Rodham Clinton on Benghazi — A standard defense for Hillary Rodham Clinton when facing questions about Benghazi, Libya, has been to cite her commissioning of a report from the State Department's Accountability Review Board (ARB) …

Discussion: his vorpal sword, Power Line and The Huffington Post

Eun Kyung Kim / Today:
Hillary Clinton: I refused to ‘attack’ Palin for ‘being a woman’

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, ABC News, The Daily Caller and Althouse

KOIN-TV:

Student, shooter dead at Reynolds High School — TROUTDALE, Ore. (KOIN 6) — Troutdale police have identified the student killed in the shooting at Reynolds High School student Tuesday morning as a 14-year-old freshman. — Emilio Hoffman, a freshman soccer player at Reynolds High School, is one of two dead (Instagram)

Discussion: Pat Dollard, The Democratic Daily, No More Mister Nice Blog and The Raw Story

CNN:
Student, suspect killed at school

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Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:

MSNBC the Least Trusted TV News Source Among All Americans — Every news network likes to claim the mantle of “the most trusted name in news,” and a new Brookings and Public Religion Research Institute poll seeks to demonstrate who actually does and does not deserve that claim.

Discussion: Washington Free Beacon, Pat Dollard and Doug Ross

CNN:

Right-wing extremists strike again — Shootings in Las Vegas … (CNN) — On Sunday, Jerad and Amanda Miller, a married couple, allegedly killed two police officers in an ambush at a Las Vegas pizza restaurant and then murdered another person in an adjacent Walmart.

Discussion: Hit & Run, The Truth About Guns, NewsBusters, Infowars, emptywheel, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post

Brian Beutler / The New Republic:
Why Is the American Far Right More Violent Than the American Far Left?

Discussion: Weekly Standard, The Federalist, Washington Monthly, Washington Post and No More Mister Nice Blog

Jennifer Epstein / Politico:

Obama after 2016: ‘On a beach’ — President Barack Obama's post-White House plans include serious work to reach out to young people, he said Tuesday — but first, he'll get in some time in the sand. — As soon as the next president is sworn in, Obama plans to be “on a beach somewhere …

Discussion: Hot Air

Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
Obama Leaves White House for Lunch With Duncan

Discussion: CNN

Hayes Brown / ThinkProgress:

One Of The World's Scariest Terrorist Groups Now Controls Major City In Iraq — ISIS fighters in Fallujah, the first city the group captured — A terrorist group that al Qaeda has deemed too radical and unpredictable now controls the second largest city in Iraq as of Tuesday …

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Wall Street Journal:
Militants Overrun Iraq's Second-Largest City As Government Forces Flee

Discussion: US Department of State, CNN, Pat Dollard, White House Dossier and National Review

Geoff Pender / The Clarion-Ledger:

Cochran goes on offensive, calls McDaniel “an extremist,” “dangerous” — After months of milquetoast statements and letting surrogates do any campaign trash talking, incumbent U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran went on the offensive in Hattiesburg on Tuesday, calling his opponent Chris McDaniel …

Discussion: National Review, Hot Air, RedState, The Daily Caller, The Week and Talking Points Memo