safe here and all around the world. we re going to pay for this. good morning. welcome back to new day. we start with a political earthquake. really pick your negative metaphor because this was a big deal. one of the country s most powerful, conservative republicans going down in a defeat in a primary. huge. he lost huge. what was his crime? that he wasn t conservative enough. house majority leader eric cantor losing to little known tea party challenger david brat an economics professor in virginia. brat hammered cantor on his push for immigration reform. the headline in the richmond times dispatch says it all, cantor out. what does this mean for the midterm elections and immigration policy going for ward? we have complete coverage and analysis of what is is a huge upset any spis way you want to measure it. let s start with chief congressional correspondent dana bash live in washington.
destruction of the dollar threatens the global economy and what we can do about it. good morning. how did mr. brat win? two big things. one, eric cantor did not do constituency work you have to do, do one on one with the voters, town halls galore. when orrin hatch in utah two years ago was in trouble, he worked it very hard. lindsey graham was in trouble. last night he worked it very hard. the other thing was immigration. illegal immigration, stories about kids, numerous coming across the border, the president seemingly doing nothing about it. people say this is another example of washington lawlessness and took it out on eric cantor. do you believe the democrats played a role in the margin of victory for brat which was 11 points, because it was an open primary? to me, analyzing it, i don t see the advantage to them having cantor out. there was apparently a little bit of that, but the margin showed it did not play a major role. and no one thought cantor was vulnerable until a co