Tea Party Stunner: Eric Cantor, the No. 2 Republican in the House and the nation’s top Jewish Republican, was defeated by a right-wing insurgent candidate in his conservative Virginia district.

Tea Party activists in his district were angry that he voted to end the government shutdown, raise the debt ceiling. And what's even more ironic is that Eric Cantor has courted the Tea Party.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., delivers a concession speech in Richmond, Va., Tuesday, June 10, 2014. Cantor lost in the GOP primary to tea party candidate Dave Brat.

Cantor, the second-most powerful House leader, is the highest-ranking Republican to lose renomination to a Tea Party challenger since the movement rose to prominence in 2010.

Those who tried to claim the Tea Party movement was dead received a shock Tuesday night, when House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., lost his primary to challenger David Brat. Cantor's internal ...

RICHMOND, Va. >> 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.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., delivers a concession speech Tuesday night in Richmond, Va. Cantor lost in the GOP primary to tea party candidate Dave Brat. (Steve Helber, Associated Press) ...

Republican Eric Cantor’s stunning defeat in Virginia came too late to help Tea Party sympathizers in Nebraska in their quest to oust Lee Terry. Cantor’s defeat could have provided momentum and ...

A Tea Party caucus has been formed among House of Representatives' Republicans, but one of the party's leaders, Rep. Eric Cantor, R-7th, is not joining.