steele on boehner s behalf. the american people, their elected representatives and the supreme court have all expressed serious concerns about the president s failure to follow the constitution dismissing them with words like smidgen or stunt only reinforces their frustration. it s a battle for the bases now. what s interesting, i thought about that obama speech, you heard him earlier this year talking about don t boo vote and all those. now it s more like, here are the policies that republicans believe in trying to get the base more angry as opposed to saying, there are big stakes here. here s what they stand for. you know, the lawsuit and the statement by michael steel, it s all midterm election strategy. it s about the bases of the two parties and firing them up. and his final part of the speech was, i m listening to you. i m listening to you. i m hearing you. he s trying to say, i m not in
the local implication says that we will see a new congressman from a district north of richmond. national implications are new majority leader in congress. a new lineup of potential successors for john boehner when he decides to leave as house speaker and of course we have final two years of the obama presidency. right now of course he doesn t get along very well with the house republican leadership. you have to expect, given tonight of what we saw, don, house republicans would become scared. tea party will become more em boldened and less done on capitol hill, don. gloria, after his loss, eric cantor said this tonight. what i have set out to do and the agenda i said we were about, we want to create a virginia and america that works for everybody. and we need to focus our efforts as conservatives, as republicans, on putting forth our conservative solutions so
getting e-mails, from tea party organizations, across the country, even chris mcdaniel running in two weeks, he is taking credit for this. what you will see is an em boldened departy. you will see a spin-off don, with more activity on that side. kw question is, can it sustain until next november. even the tea parties weren t involved. they didn t think they add shot in unseating eric cantor. i would like to find out his favorability ratings going into this. if the base of the party didn t like him, the base of the republican party, then that explains a lot of it. this is also a testament to the power of conservative radio. it is still very, very strong. laura ing gram, don, i ve been following her tweets for several weeks. the fact that she has been trying to gin up the grass roots in that virginia district. went down there, had a rally herself, you can t underestimate
i just went back and found an interview that i did with eric cantor six months ago. i asked him about something that i heard he said to his own rank and file after the shut down. he said, we have to stop eating our own. kind of ironic. i was thinking about that, because eric cantor was one of the most, if not the most, conservative. you say, it s fleeting. mark preston, where does this leave john boehner? certainly leaves him in a position where he doesn t have eric cantor look, eric cantor, let s say this, was an great ally of don boehner. at least he had eric cantor there. that separated him from the tea party masses. i think it s important to note that ari eric cantor lost this tonight. the tea party didn t win this race. however, in politics, perception is reality right now. and what you will see, and we ve seen this already in the past couple of hours, we are all
that speaks to what we were saying before, which is this isn t necessarily about immigration or about a specific topic. it is about lindsay graham winning his primary because he was very aggressive in doing so. went home a lot. mid sure that field was clear from people who could actually beat him. he paid attention. eric cantor, not so much. mark, if you want to get in with these ladies, you work in the office with them everyday in washington. yes, he does. he s not shy, don. i know. thank you guys, appreciate it. to gloria, dana, mark preston as well. what may be the define, issue of this primary season? immigration in the front line of the battles of arizona. gary tuchman has more on that. don, i can tell you here in the state of arizona we have an influx of children crossing the border. just over the last two weeks since memorial day. also, mothers with small babies. why they re doing this, we don t know exactly. what they telling us is that central american countries li