“In one of the most stunning primary election upsets in congressional history, the House majority leader, Eric Cantor, was soundly defeated on Tuesday by a Tea Party-backed economics professor who had hammered him for being insufficiently conservative. The result delivered a major jolt to the Republican Party — Mr. Cantor had widely been considered the top candidate to succeed Speaker John A. Boehner — and it has the potential to change both the debate in Washington on immigration and, possibly, the midterm elections.”* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down. *Read more here from Jonathan Martin / NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/11/us/politics/eric-cantor-loses-gop-primary.html