Obama: Cantor Loss Doesn’t Mean Immigration Reform’s Dead

President Obama spoke at a Democratic Party fundraiser Wednesday night and addressed the Beltway conventional wisdom that Eric Cantor‘s defeat at the hands of Dave Brat, an unknown on the national stage, means immigration reform is dead. Obama stated unequivocally that he “fundamentally reject[s]” that idea.

The president remarked on how pundits are declaring immigration reform dead and declared, “I fundamentally reject that. I will tell the Speaker of the House that he needs to reject that. Because if you met those kids today, you would know that politics can’t play a part in it.”

Obama talked about the importance of standing up for what you believe in and added that yesterday’s Virginia primary shows “not that there was too little politics––there was too little conviction about what was right.”

[h/t AP, Zeke Miller]
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