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Played into the majority leader over on the house side, eric cantor, losing his primary this week? there are many folks who say it was about other things, there was a bigger picture, but the folks who were motivated to support dave brat, hischallenge the gop nominee to the election this fall, for them they were very vocal. for many of them it was about the issue of so-called amnesty. >> i don't think it's any doubt about it. it was a dominant issue in that campaign, was immigration. you had a smart candidate who was able to articulate it in an effective way and raise questions about the willin...

The bottom line is, you have big groups with big budgets that try to take over the narrative. the reality is, the tea party has always been made up of local people in hometowns all across the country. while big groups get on tv and buy advertising, that is not the heart and soul of the tea party movement. go to a local tea party meeting, meet the people who support dave brat, you don't find any love between them and the cozy relationship between wall street and the republican party, or the democratic party for that matter. >> let me give you a description of what the takeaway is from the brat ...

Hear lines that you may not be accustomed to hearing from a republican. >> they actually broke the financial system, all the investment banks up in new york and d.c., those guys should have gone to jail. instead of going to jail, where did they go? >> sabrina is a politic supporters at the "huffington post." a new yorker has described dave brat as the elizabeth warren of the right, saying he uses the kind of rhetoric that ralph nader has used for many use to pillory the government for protecting the rich and well connected from the vagaries of the free market. are we looking at a guy who is th...

Chamber of commerce. the u.s. chamber of commerce, big business guys, at a business roundtable, every decision eric cantor makes is exactly what the chamber wants them to do. look at obamacare. who gets exempted from obamacare? big business. >> sabrina, when did the chamber of commerce become the enemy of republicans? >> it is still an enemy of the tea party. dave brat did get a fair amount of backing from the tea party and got support from club for growth, even though they were not actually present during his actual campaign. they've only embraced him now that he defeated eric cantor. there's...

Within their own party that is against one of the pillars of their base, which is big business in the chamber? >> i don't think they're too concerned yet. they talked about this is one isolated race. eric cantor could have won this race had he taken it a little more seriously. his campaign was a little arrogant about it. their polling was way off. it's not entirely clear if the entire gop leadership is taking dave brat as a symbol of an entirely new movement. >> sabrina, thank you very much. appreciate you being here. >> thank you. >> i would like to bring in one of the early tea party leaders...