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.
Another Democrat dream that was not meant to be.
bump!
Good news!
And, Midge & Co want the TEA party to straighten up. Ha!
Eric Cantor disappeared.
Losing a RINO and gaining a conservative is a great deal.
Congrats David Brat on your victory!
Is he going to be in the lame duck session as well?
Eric Cantor will serve until January.
No Eric Cantor has left Congress, left in the summer.
Amen to that!
As will the RAT Senate, meaning nothing will happen.
No he left. He has been gone since August.
NO, Cantor resigned last summer.
He’s making $3+ million per year from an investment bank already!
Proof that you don’t need Rove PAC money to win.
Tea Party Gone? Are you Kidding? The Mindset of Freedom and the Constitution are far from Destroyed. As a matter of Fact who do you think will Force the GOP to Stop obama? Its not the Establishment, its you got it the Tea Party, Conservatives, Libertarians, All those who Embrace the Constitution and One Nation under God!
David Brat will be sworn in next Wednesday, November 12, 2014 (after the Veterans Day holiday and pretty much Congress’s first day back after the election)
The Patrick Henry Tea Party (Hanover County)is the most down to earth grass root salt of the earth people you will ever meet. They were the underwriters the Cantor defeat. They may have saved the republic, unsung faceless heroes. I called the Cantor primary defeat the vote heard ‘round the world.
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