Scott W. Taylor (Virginia Beach) in the state’s Republican primary intensifies Virginia’s declining cachet in Washington. Instead, voters ousted Cantor, foretelling a wave of retirements that left the delegation flush with backbenchers but no seasoned leaders. Voters in the Virginia Beach district didn’t buy Forbes’s argument that his expertise and seniority were crucial to the regional economy, observers said. And U.S. Rep J. Randy Forbes’s double-digit defeat Tuesday at the hands of Del. “The inescapable truth is that because of the defeat of people like Forbes and Cantor .

Source: Washington Post June 15, 2016 21:51 UTC