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 Republican Dave Brat, who defeated House of Representatives Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a primary race on Tuesday, is an economics professor from a tiny Virginia college who attacked ...

WASHINGTON — Republican tea party forces are rejoicing and the party establishment is somber or altogether silent in the wake of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's primary defeat at the hands ...

WASHINGTON (AP)- Republican tea party forces are rejoicing and the party establishment is somber or altogether silent in the wake of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's primary defeat at the hands ...

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.

Cantor himself conceded defeat, telling downcast supporters, “Obviously we came up short.” Brat and his supporters in the ranks of the tea party were triumphant.

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.

He said that Cantor "helped create" the conservative Tea Party movement and helped "paralyze" the federal government. But de Blasio also said that Cantor's defeat was a "cautionary tale." ...