'''David Brat''' (b. July 27, 1964) is the Republican Congressman-elect for Virginia's 7th District. Brat shocked the nation with his historic defeat of House Majority Leader [[Eric Cantor]] in the June 2014 [[Republican]] primary after being outspent 40 to 1. Prior to politics, he was a Director of Economics at Randolph–Macon College. <ref>[http://faculty.rmc.edu/dbrat/ David A. Brat, Department of Economics and Business]</ref> His campaign message was simple, run on the Republican party platform that Cantor had ignored. In the [[2014 Midterm Elections]], Brat defeated his fellow faculty member Democrat Jack Trammell.
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'''David Brat''' (b. July 27, 1964) is the Republican Congressman for Virginia's 7th District. Brat shocked the nation with his historic defeat of House Majority Leader [[Eric Cantor]] in the June 2014 [[Republican]] primary after being outspent 40 to 1. Prior to politics, he was a Director of Economics at Randolph–Macon College. <ref>[http://faculty.rmc.edu/dbrat/ David A. Brat, Department of Economics and Business]</ref> His campaign message was simple, run on the Republican party platform that Cantor had ignored. In the [[2014 Midterm Elections]], Brat defeated his fellow faculty member Democrat Jack Trammell.
David Brat is married with two children and is a professed [[Christian]].
David Brat is married with two children and is a professed [[Christian]].
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