Eric Cantor’s shocking loss in Tuesday’s primary election opens up Virginia’s 7th Congressional District in ways rarely considered before. By now, you have more than likely heard of the GOP candidate, Dave Brat, but who will he be facing during November’s general election?
The Democratic winner is Jack Trammell, who was chosen unanimously after not a single person was willing to run against Cantor. Now that Cantor is out of the picture, Democrats are putting what little hope they have for a victory into Trammell.
Not much is known about Trammell at this time, as his Facebook was set up the day before the election and the Democratic Party is currently handling his media requests. However, we do know that he is an associate professor of sociology, the father of seven, and is busy working on a vampire novel, POLITICO reports. He has also written a romance novel called “Sarah’s Last Secret.”
Like Brat, Trammell is a political newcomer with election experience limited to working on the Clinton and Dukakis campaigns. In an interesting twist, he and Brat also teach at the same college in Virginia.
The chances of Trammell taking Cantor’s seat are looking fairly slim. Luckily for him vampire novels tend to be crowd-pleasers.
