It’s being called the political “upset of the year.”

On Tuesday, an economics professor beat U.S. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) to win the Republican nomination for Congress in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District — the seat Cantor has held for more than a dozen years.

David Brat, who teaches Third World economics at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Va., defeated Cantor 56 percent to 44 percent largely by billing himself as even more conservative than the conservative Cantor. Brat also had support from the Tea Party.

First District Congressman David McKinley (R-W.Va.) said he was “shocked and stunned” by Cantor’s defeat. “It’s hard for me to grasp, someone of the stature and the substance and the character that he has, the impact that’s going to have (his loss) on the direction of this country,” he said.

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