Senior Republican Cantor suffers shocking loss to Tea Party rival

Credit: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst

U.S. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) (L) and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) address reporters after a Republican caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington May 7, 2014.

Cantor, the No. 2 Republican in the House of Representatives, was beaten by college economics professor David Brat, according to CNN projections. Brat had argued Cantor was not conservative enough, and accused the seven-term incumbent of betraying conservative values on spending, the national debt and immigration.

(Reporting by John Whitesides; Editing by Peter Cooney)

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