conservative prince. he accused cantor of supporting clemency for undocumented immigrants. he denied that crushed cantor who spent $2 billion and backed by dozens of packs. he proved it is powerful to beat incumbents without millions of dollars and super pacs. cantor says he will finish his term but step down as majority leader at the end of next month. the process to replace him will start tomorrow. john boehner heaped praise on cantor. house members gave his big rounds of applause and standing ovations. some left with tears in their eyes. now comes the leadership scramble. the current g.o.p. whip kevin mccarthy s to move up the ladder and replace cantor as majority leader. he could face competition. if mccarthy wins the promotion, the g.o.p. would need a new whip and hold election for that too. the newly empowered has a
clean. much more on cantor s defeat. we re going to have them on, people on like joe scarborough, lucky to get him today and michael steele. up next, remember the republican in arizona who changed his name to cesar chavez to win hispanic votes? now the family of the real cesar chavez is striking back. this is hardball, the place for politics. i think the biggest value of truecar. was that it gave me. confidence to buy my very first car.
that s a hell of a slogan, chris christie, he cleaned up new jersey. i m sorry, sometimes i have to laugh at you guys, but that s all right. that s an opinion you have. john brabender, who s pushing christie as the reform candidate and matt kibbe, who s always clean. much more on cantor s defeat. we re going to have them on, people on like joe scarborough, lucky to get him today and michael steele. up next, remember the republican in arizona who changed his name to cesar chavez to win hispanic votes? now the family of the real cesar chavez is striking back. this is hardball, the place for politics. she keeps you on your toes.
won t let him go. last week they sent out two different direct mail hit pieces, you know, on wayne. and we got a campaign. and even cantor s strategist said this is the a lot of the contentious is because they kind of put themselves in a corner, whether it s cantor, who your candidate is up against, or indiana, murdoch, the candidate for senate there. we re seeing people all over the country that have taken this tea party far right position trying to now back away from their position. let me play the ad you have put on cantor and show people how you ve been really nailing him on his own record and his own situation there in his own home district. let me put this ad on. cantor s received millions
pictures from richmond, virginia, where the president will take the podium. he ll have to sell his proposal to congress. with the heated climate on capitol hill we ve seen crafting it into legislation could be an uphill battle here. politico s joe williams joins me to talk about that process. thank you for being here this morning. it s no coincidence here that the president is in eric cantor s backyard. we know he ll be a major negotiator here getting any bill passed. is this to turn up the heat? no doubt. it appears he will adopt a strategy to put the heat on cantor. in his speech you heard him mention programs in virginia, ohio and kentucky that this jobs package would help.