One of GW’s most powerful political alumni will get his seat challenged in a Republican primary this year.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., will have to fight for his Congressional seat against a professor from Randolph-Macon College, a small liberal arts school in Ashland, Va, the National Review reported this week.
“I want to be Eric Cantor’s term limit,” David Brat said.

Brat knocked Cantor’s support of the budget compromise passed in December, as well as his position on immigration reform and stance on the Affordable Care Act.

Cantor, who graduated in 1985, first interned at the district office he now commands while at GW. He won the seat when his boss, Former Rep. Thomas Bliley, retired in 2001. He is in his seventh term in Congress, considered one of Republicans’ most untouchable members.

In 2012, Cantor beat out a primary challenger with 79 percent of the vote before winning reelection.