Obama White House Insists: Immigration Reform Didn’t Sink Cantor

The Obama White House assured Republicans last night that Eric Cantor did not lose because of his gestures toward Democrats on immigration.

Cantor supported amnesty for illegal kids.
The Corner reported:

A spokesman for President Obama rushed to assure House Republicans that Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R., Va.) didn’t actually lose because of his gestures toward Democrats on immigration reform.

“Cantor’s problem wasn’t his position on immigration reform, it was his lack of a position,” Obama adviser Dan Pfeiffer tweeted, citing the primary triumph tonight by Senator Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.). “Graham wrote and passed a bill and is winning big.”

Cantor’s campaign sent out direct-mail pieces ahead of the election maintaining that he was “stopping the Obama-Reid plan to give illegal aliens amnesty,” but challenger Dave Brat accused him of supporting “amnesty” based on his support for legislation such as the KIDS Act, which would give citizenship to children brought to the country illegally.

“Where else would these kids go? Again, they’ve been brought here as a minor in many instances having no idea what was going on, knowing no other place than America as home,” Cantor said during a press conference last July.

It could have been that Cantor headlined an anti-Tea Party conference sponsored by George Soros in April?

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