Posted on 11/06/2014 4:13:10 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
David Brat, the Republican who unseated ex-House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in June, cruised to victory Tuesday night, according to multiple news outlets.
Brat, who faced off with Democrat Jack Trammell, won the race for Virginia’s 7th congressional district.
Despite both teaching at Randolph-Macon College, the two presented a different vision for America’s future while courting voters.
Brat rode a wave of tea-party backed support to a stunning upset of Cantor last summer and is favored to win the heavily Republican 7th Congressional District in central Virginia, which includes the Richmond-area suburbs. Brat repeatedly played up his role as an economics professor in the debate, saying said he would be the best choice to help spur the U.S. economy.
“You can vote for someone who supports President Obama’s policies like Jack does, or you can vote for someone who knows from hundreds of years of economic history that top-down, centralized government planning fails every single time it’s been tried,” Brat said.
Trammell defended some of Obama’s policies, criticized others, and tried to position himself as a bipartisan dealmaker.
He ran as a Conservative.
OUTSTANDING
AWESOME!!!!
Amen!
“I called the Cantor primary defeat the vote heard ‘round the world.”
BTTT
There’s quite a few freepers who hate seeing guys like Brat win. They believe that only hand selected by leadership folks should run. Everyone else is qorking to elect Dems.
> “You can vote for someone who supports President Obama’s policies like Jack does, or you can vote for someone who knows from hundreds of years of economic history that top-down, centralized government planning fails every single time it’s been tried,” Brat said.
And yet, unlike any other time in his public life, Obama insists that the election wasn’t all about Obama.
Cantor resigned early (Aug 18) for a nice, fat job. Brat was on the ballot twice Tuesday .... once for a special election to fill the rest of Cantor’s term and then again for the 2 year House term. He won both. He will be sworn in Nov. 12 and be in the lame duck session, then will be sworn in again in January for his regular two year term.
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