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The democrat's name is jack trammel. nominated for the spot on the november ballot by virginia democrats. mr. brat is an economics professor. the author of a 2012 book on slavery in the old confederacy. and he is not a politician. but, very unexpectedly, virginians in the seventh district are going to have a choice between the sociology professor and economics professor, both from the same school, both who they are likely to never have heard of ever. ever before tonight. joining us is a reporter for the "virginian pilot" newspaper. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> i have to ask you a...

Beat cantor, the tea party, anti-immigration activist who powered brat's underfunded campaign. now here are the latest numbers. report brat won by ten points. 56% to about 44%. 10, 12 points there. cantor, the first sitting majority leader in american history to lose his party primary. also one of the more conservative incumbents to lose a tea party challenge, within 96% lifetime rating for the american conservative union. what makes the upset consequential for the obama agenda, is cantor's record. he positioned himself to the right of speaker john boehner. that didn't help him win tonight. >>...

Majority leader after being outspent 5-1 here. what extent has mr. brat been embraced by tea party factions or larger republican interest groups, or conservative interest groups in virginia. has he been kind of a stand-alone guy, running a stand-alone campaign or part of a larger movement that has embraced him against the republican establishment. >> he has been embraced by the tea party movement. what's interesting about this is -- up until today, every publicly available poll suggested dave brat was going to draw 40%. everybody was saying -- that in and of itself would bea victory t if he wa...

Was telling people at home. this is what dave brat called on the doorstep of cantor's home office in virginia. you'll see this was a true shoestring operation by brat. you'll see that in part by the way they have to flip the camera around midstream so it will come out okay when they post it on youtube. >> eric cantor's promise of citizenship for illegal immigrants has opened the floodgates on our border. he has repeatedly over and over again promised citizenship for those who enter our country illegally. he continues to demand citizenship for illegal candidates and continues to erase our borde...

College fighting it out in the general? >> brat is certainly the favorite because it's a 57% republican district, but it is amusing this small college is going to have its own congressman. and all i can say is i'm glad i'm not there because the faculty wars are bad enough when you don't have two faculty members running against each other. >> thank you so much for being with us tonight. i really appreciate it. >> just an absolute political stunner tonight. one of the biggest upsets in modern history. the seventh district, which you would never think was the big thing, except it was the perch fo...