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After Toppling Ex-House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Tea Party Favorite Cruises to Victory
The Blaze ^ | Nov 4, 2014 | Oliver Darcy

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2014midterms; davidbrat; ericcantor; jacktrammell; virginia
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To: Vince Ferrer

He ran as a Conservative.


21 posted on 11/06/2014 4:40:18 PM PST by nomad
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To: Vince Ferrer

OUTSTANDING


22 posted on 11/06/2014 4:41:38 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: central_va

AWESOME!!!!


23 posted on 11/06/2014 4:44:56 PM PST by magna carta
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To: central_va

Amen!


24 posted on 11/06/2014 4:46:38 PM PST by jafojeffsurf (Return to the Constitution)
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To: central_va

“I called the Cantor primary defeat the vote heard ‘round the world.”

BTTT


25 posted on 11/06/2014 4:47:19 PM PST by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: SharpRightTurn

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.


26 posted on 11/06/2014 5:05:54 PM PST by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: Vince Ferrer
B T T T ! ! ! ©

27 posted on 11/06/2014 5:14:06 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

> “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.


28 posted on 11/06/2014 5:51:55 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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To: Perdogg; goldstategop

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.


29 posted on 11/06/2014 6:06:02 PM PST by Qiviut ( One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. ~W.E. Johns)
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