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.

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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.

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 ...

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.