--- title: Students Say Dave Brat, Who Beat Eric Holder in a GOP Primary, Is Hot description: According to RateMyProfessors.com, Dave Brat gets decent marks for his teaching and above-average marks for attractiveness canonical: https://time.com/2854861/david-brat-eye-candy-rate-my-professors/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-11T01:24:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T08:20:30.533Z article:section: Politics og:title: Students Say Dave Brat, Who Beat Eric Holder in a GOP Primary, Is Hot og:description: According to RateMyProfessors.com, Dave Brat gets decent marks for his teaching and above-average marks for attractiveness og:url: https://time.com/2854861/david-brat-eye-candy-rate-my-professors/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5abf665a777bf91f/6986970d13c79f7f21192979/211f640dc71d4ed2b268b533469d46d5-0.jpg?branch=production&width=1191&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1191 og:image:height: 670 og:image:alt: David Brat og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Students Say Dave Brat, Who Beat Eric Holder in a GOP Primary, Is Hot twitter:description: According to RateMyProfessors.com, Dave Brat gets decent marks for his teaching and above-average marks for attractiveness twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5abf665a777bf91f/6986970d13c79f7f21192979/211f640dc71d4ed2b268b533469d46d5-0.jpg?branch=production&width=1191&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Guy Who Beat Eric Cantor Is 'Eye Candy', 'Charming' Former Students Say > Sponsored content. 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It explains the politics, personalities and power dynamics behind the headlines, three times a week. #### Where can I get analysis of Washington politics by email? D.C. Brief is TIME's free Washington politics newsletter, available at time.com/newsletters. It is written by a TIME senior correspondent who covers the capital full time. #### Who writes TIME's D.C. Brief? Philip Elliott, a senior correspondent at TIME, writes D.C. Brief. #### Is D.C. Brief free? Yes. D.C. Brief is free at time.com/newsletters.  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Jun 11, 2014 1:24 AM UTC  Seventh District US Congressional Republican candidate David Brat at a press conference in Richmond, Va., May 28, 2014\. Brat, a relative unknown, defeated House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a GOP primary, June 10, 2014. Seventh District US Congressional Republican candidate David Brat at a press conference in Richmond, Va., May 28, 2014\. Brat, a relative unknown, defeated House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a GOP primary, June 10, 2014. Steve Helber—AP  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Jun 11, 2014 1:24 AM UTC _Updated 9:42 p.m. EST_ Dave Brat, the Virginia college professor who shockingly beat House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in [a Republican congressional primary](http://time.com/2854716/house-majority-leader-cantor-defeated-in-primary/), is a pretty solid teacher by most accounts. According to [comments left by former students](http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=47058&pageNo=1) on RateMyProfessors.com, he’s extremely helpful and conveys his ideas clearly, even if he’s not the easiest grader. Some more critical Randolph-Macon College students said he often strayed from the syllabus, but there’s one thing they seem to agree on: he’s _really_ good-looking. “He’s total eye candy!!” reads one review. “At least he’s hot!!” goes another. “Brat changes assignments all the time, but he is so charming, you forget to be mad at him,” says one more. [At press time](http://i.imgur.com/QPVK1xf.png), his hotness rating was a glowing red chili pepper, which is the site’s second best hotness rating after the combusting chili pepper. Brat’s win is said to be a major victory for the tea party movement in the state. 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