over the years. he recruited a lot of the members that won election, and then he helped a lot of them win election. as a result, he s actually very well liked by a lot of people, which is why he s likely to win this race. and it could be, too, that he manages as a result to maybe bring a little bit more unity to the caucus. by contrast, eric cantor, who a lot of the more conservative members of the caucus sometimes viewed with a little bit of suspicion. but when you say a politics guy, you mean he s focused more on winning elections, the nuts and bolts of elections, like how do you raise money, for example, how do you turn out voters, that sort of thing, more than policy, more than budget reform, more than the actual agenda. it s more, how do you get the votes. that s absolutely right. this is not a guy who s been seen like a paul ryan, for instance, an innovator on policy or a jeb hensarling, who s very much pushed members to try to embrace some very tough policy decisions, and i
over the years. he recruited a lot of the members that won election, and he helped a lot of them win election. as a result, he s actually very well-liked by a lot of people, which is why he s likely to win this race. and it could be, too, he manages as a result to maybe bring a little bit more unity to the caucus. by contrast, eric cantor, who a lot of the more comfort members of the caucus viewed with a little bit of suspicion. but when you say a politics guy, you mean he s focused more on winning elections, the nuts and bolts of elections, like how to you raise money, for example, how to you turn out voters. that sort of thing. more than policy. more than budget reform. more than the actual agenda. it s more how do you gesb the votes. this is not a guy!ñ4 who has b seen like a paul ryan, for instance, an innovator on policy or jen hensarling who has pushed members to embrace very tough policy decisions. and i think it that s a really
this. everything is dead, i think, as far as this, i think, budget reform, tax reform, and certainly immigration is dead at this point in time. it was only a matter of minutes, minutes, literally, until everyone started citing immigration as the cause of house majority eric cantor s downfall. in the last few days, images of undocumented, unaccompanied minors detained at the border and now being held in special facilities like this one in nogales, arizona, have created a media storm. it s a humanitarian crisis the drudge report has blown up into a full right-wing panic. and which david brat himself, citing drudge, used against cantor, right up to election day. drudge, it s at the top of the drudge news story right now. 100,000 kids, and the kids themselves have said, we ve heard there s a kids act. well, eric cantor is the author of the kids act. so if you want open borders, vote for eric cantor, because
definitely as a result of this. everything is dead, i think, as far as this, i think, budget reform, tax reform, and certainly immigration is dead at this point in time. it was only a matter of minutes, minutes, literally, until everyone started citing immigration as the cause of house majority eric cantor s downfall. in the last few days, images of undocumented, unaccompanied minors detained at the border and now being held in special facilities like this one in nogales, arizona, have created a media storm. it s a humanitarian crisis the drudge report has blown up into a full right-wing panic. and which david brat himself, citing drudge, used against cantor, right up to election day. drudge, it s at the top of the drudge news story right now. 100,000 kids, and the kids themselves have said, we ve heard there s a kids act. well, eric cantor is the author of the kids act. so if you want open borders, vote for eric cantor, because he s opening the borders. those kind of attacks p
the updates and what s going on at the border with the flooding of undocumented individuals coming in, how much of a factor did that play? i think d. there has been a lot of republicans unhappy with boehner s comments recently about immigration. immigration is dead in the house. house republicans don t want to move it. as a result of this? definitely as a result. everything is dead as far as this budget reform, tax reform and certainly immigration is dead at this point in time. do you think that the grassroots was steamed, that they see that the gop leadership, that s their last chance to stop the obama agenda and don t feel like washington is really doing anything for them? this started cantor was one of the leader when is they shut the government down. they held him responsible for that, many of the tea party and the grassroots wanted to continue that fight. they thought they had obama on the defensive and obviously boehner and others didn t think that. so he got blamed f