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I believe there is opportunity around the next corner for all of us. so i'll look forward to continuing to fight with all of you for the things that we believe in, for the conservative cause, because those solutions of ours are the answer to the problems that so many people are facing today. thank you all very, very much. >> by next quarter, one has to imagine cantor's run to k street where he is likely to find some easy employment. eric cantor, the second most powerful republican in the house, the only non-christian member of the republican caucus has lost his seat to challenger dave brat. br...

From the different fates of those two men? joining me josh barrow, correspondent for the upshot "new york times." dave, i'll begin with you. i understand you got to talk to mr. brat this evening? >> not this evening. a little while ago. before anyone knew his name or how to pronounce his name or anything about him, there was a little bit of reporting by bob costa from "the washington post" on how republicans in the district had upset one of kantor's preferred candidates for republican leadership spot. i talked to brat after that for about 15 minutes. he is i think a very recognizable, well spo...

Getting the republican party involved in a federal level with big policy. and that voice, which was pretty ignorable on talk radio maybe just a couple of hours ago, much less ignorable for republicans right now. >> and one of the -- so one of the big issues here, we talk about it a little bit is immigration. it was the single biggest policy area, war this was waged on. and you've got the situation, which you have laura ingraham endorsing brat. and then this groundswell of very hysterical coverage of immigration in the country in the last three or four days. and you had brat himself saying just...

That john boehner is having an emotionally complicated evening tonight, which i thought was pretty on the money. he had a very fraught relationship with cantor in lots of ways. >> yeah, he did. and in fact we had a role cal reporter waiting for him outside of his dinner at capitol hill a few minutes ago. he wouldn't comment about it. but you have to bet that a lot of these republican leaders, but also cantor's deputies, they've got to be on the phone right now. they've got to be trying to figure out a strategy because this race starts right now. and it has consequences for john boehner. it has...

Family. and this little note was hanging on my door every day. and i read this every day, luke 18:27. jesus replied what is impossible with man is possible with god. >> the very happy david brat. happiest moment of his life. i wonder how his family feels about that as the tea party conservative who just delivered a stunning defeat to house majority leader eric cantor in tonight's republican primary of virginia. brat's surprise ten point victory leading many to believe the news of the death of the tea party was greatly exaggerated. it certainly seems a reasonable conclusion to take away from vi...