Ryan Lizza and John Cassidy on Eric Cantor’s primary defeat.
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
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🗓️ 13 June 2014
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Ryan Lizza and John Cassidy on Eric Cantor's primary defeat.
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| 1:10.6 | This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics. |
| 1:16.3 | It's Thursday, June 12th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker. |
| 1:21.7 | To the surprise of everyone, including the candidates, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was defeated |
| 1:26.7 | in the Virginia primary by |
| 1:28.2 | an economics professor, Dave Bratt. Here's Bratt speaking on Tuesday night. It's not about Dave |
| 1:34.0 | Brat winning tonight. It's about returning the country to constitutional principles. It's about |
| 1:42.7 | returning the country to Judeo-Christian principles. And it's about returning the country to Judeo-Christian principles, and it's about returning this country to free market principles where no one is favored. |
| 1:53.9 | Ryan, Liz and John Cassidy are here today to talk about Cantor's defeat and what it means for the Republican Party and for elections this fall and in |
| 2:01.7 | 2016. |
| 2:03.6 | Ryan, last year you pointed out in a profile for the magazine that at that point, Cantor had a |
| 2:09.4 | favorable rating of only 27 percent in Virginia and that he was also widely seen as opportunistically |
| 2:16.1 | tacking between the two Republican factions in the House. |
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