now that mr. cantor has decided to step down from his own leadership post just before the august recess. perry bacon is senior political reporter with nbc news. mark murray is nbc senior political editor. perry, actually, i m going to go first to you on this. question one, of course, is who will replace eric cantor? congressman tim hugh s campus told roll cowell his ouster bodes well for an entire new leadership team. who might be on that leadership team in your reportreporting, p? three names to think about. if it s a larger rebuke of the republican leadership it could be a big chapg. pete sessions from texas or jeff hensarling. more conservative wing of the party. this is more just eric cantor in a bad campaign, the number three currently kevin mccarthy of california is moving up to number two. it will depend on how the republicans view this defeat by cantor. is this a broader message about the party?
man near the top of the political food chain. the second most powerful man in the house of representatives who could tap limitless amounts of wall street cash for his campaigns. and who just a few years ago actually made his district even safer and more republican through redistricting. well, that guy, that guy lost his re-election primary on tuesday. and by lost, i mean he lost big. by the kinds of double digit margins that put an asterisk on a politician s reputation and their legacy. more shockingly for the political world, including the political media, because let s face it, none of us anticipated it, cantor lost to a political newcomer. a guy no one gave a prayer of winning. a virginia economics professor named david brat who had some tea party support, but not the kind of big money professional tea party support or big name backing that you d expect to see for a guy poised to take down a target this big. so now the theories about what happened officially begin. was it
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