Talk radio’s Glenn Beck and Mark Levin lent support to Cantor challenger Dave Brat, but the crucial support, University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato told Politico, came from Laura Ingraham. Ingraham talked up Brat on her radio show; she also made personal appearances on Brat’s behalf. “She electrified the crowd when he had almost no money,” Sabato said. “He won the seat with peanuts, compared to Cantor’s millions. It was a clever substitution of free media for paid media.”