Cantor's neglect of wage-earning voters on immigration issues sank him

Updated: June 25th, 2014, 11:25 am

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  by  Roy Beck

Commentators surely are right to say that House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost his Primary because voters thought he was out of touch with them and too beholden to big national corporate and financial lobbies, and Prof. Brat successfully used Cantor's immigration efforts to drive home that message. Brat didn't just challenge Cantor's flirting with amnesties but attacked the whole mindset of most in national Republican Party leadership that the nation needs a lot more foreign workers during a time of historic high numbers of Americans who aren't working.

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