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Party. there were signs this might happen. though any body projecting this ahead of today. was selling you fool's gold at this point. there were signs a month ago in eric kcantor's long term party boss was knocked out at the local convention for the district. knocked out by a tea party activist. so there were some signs of the discontent with the so-called establishment candidates embodied, personified by eric c cantor this outcome left everybody flat-footed. >> hindsight on this is crystal here clear. always is. nobody saw this, the reporter for the virginian pilot. nice to have you back. tha...

Party. there were signs this might happen. though any body projecting this ahead of today. was selling you fool's gold at this point. there were signs a month ago in eric cantor's long term party boss was knocked out at the local convention for the district. knocked out by a tea party activist. so there were some signs of the discontent with the so-called establishment candidates embodied, personified by eric cantor this outcome left everybody flat-footed. >> hindsight on this is crystal here clear. always is. nobody saw this, the reporter for the virginian pilot. nice to have you back. thank ...

Majority leader after being outspent 5-1 here. what extent has mr. brat been embraced by tea party factions or larger republican interest groups, or conservative interest groups in virginia. has he been kind of a stand-alone guy, running a stand-alone campaign or part of a larger movement that has embraced him against the republican establishment. >> he has been embraced by the tea party movement. what's interesting about this is -- up until today, every publicly available poll suggested dave brat was going to draw 40%. everybody was saying -- that in and of itself would bea victory t if he wa...

Popping. like, do not go down there. don't go -- don't do it. it's fool's gold. and they couldn't stop themselves. and one of the great things is the genre today of conservative handwringing y. why do we let this happen. i thought of a less insidious version. but the great joe the plumber walk of shame that happened before. joe the plumber, some dude no one had heard of, turned into total fox news hero. samuel -- he was neither joe, nor a plumber. here he is speaking at a fundraiser in 2012 about his views on immigrants. >> for years i've said, you know, put a fence on the border going to mexi...

Why they think the federal government -- >> public lands are a bad idea. >> right. that's not a majority coalition, nor are wealthy interests who have a problem with the government because they just don't like taxes and spending because that's unfavorable to them. when you build out this coalition for that party, you end up picking up a lot of crazy people. it's an essential part of the electoral coalition to elect republican candidates. so when they get together, then they're going to end up in this position. but what -- the thing they really ought to be able to predict that they don't yet is...