haven t only lost touch with your district. you need to have better staff with you. i think eric cantor just completely lost touch with everything that it takes to actually be a congressman. because he was too busy measuring the curtains inside john boehner s office. that s what cost him his job. i said last word. but krystal, do you think pollsters are shaking in their boots. they were trying to make up a lot of excuses this morning. the words internal poll kind of look like gallup in 2012. thank you so much, jason johnson and krystal ball. be sure to watch krystal on the cycle after this very program. 3:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. i m going to say that again at the end of the show. coming up, the grand ole party scrambles to get its leadership in order now that house speaker eric cantor has gotten the old heave ho. republicans better start acting like republicans. and delivering for the base. or they re going to they re going to make us pay for it.
congressman. the tea party and conservatives capitalized on that built up distrust over cantor s other promises and made a convincing case that cantor could not be trusted with immigration either. i think both of those two things kind of make krystal s point. this was a guy whose big money kind of hurt him imagewise. immigration was layered on top of it. do you agree with that analysis? yeah. think he really angered a lot of local party. this guy was running around like he was frank underwood. i m going to be the speaker of the house. you need to listen to what i tell you to do. he wasn t connecting to the local party. he didn t have frank underwood s charm, though. not at all. he was attempting to manipulate who the party leaders were going to be, who the party chairman was going to be. this is a guy who spent more fundraising on i think there were several factors who come into play. everyone here can claim a victory. everyone here can also talk to why he ended up losing. it