Suddenly, Trammell has a shot in the 7th District.

Trammell knows a little bit about being an underdog.

After all, his favorite baseball team is the New York Mets.

And the 50-year-old author, associate professor and farmer from Louisa County is running as a Democrat in a district with a voting history that is more “red” than a vampire novel. That, by the way, is what Trammell was writing before the political fates plucked him from obscurity and thrust him front and center into a nationally watched race.

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