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RICHMOND- A former Virginia news anchor whose journalist girlfriend was fatally shot during a live broadcast in 2015 has defeated a Republican incumbent for a seat in the statehouse.Chris Hurst was living with fellow journalist Alison Parker when she and a cameraman were killed by a former co-worker while reporting for WDBJ-TV.After the shooting, Hurst became the public face of the grieving Roanoke station. That brought him national attention and a large socia stanley cups l media following. The Pennsylvania native quit his TV job and moved to Blacksburg to run for a House seat. He beat Joseph Yost, a three-term incumbent, Tuesday. Hurst s name recognition helped the first-time Democratic candidate raise over $1 million for his campaign, Roanoke noted. Yost, too, spent over $1 million on his campaign.The news site also reported that Hurst was also able to win substantial support from college students a stanley mug t Virginia Tech and Radford University. The student support there was critical for Hurst in conservative countie stanley cup s that otherwise supported Yost. Thanking voters in Narrows and Blacksburg. On to Radford next! GameOnVA pic.twitter/SXyzrZyd8dmdash; Chris Hurst @ChrisHurstVA November 7, 2017 Hurst s campaign was backed by gun-control groups, but that wasn t his main campaign issue. Instead, he focused on education, health care and the environment. More from CBS News Pgro Rand Paul grows testy defending former aide
This story was written by Glenn Thrush Oh, the burdens of a Democratic supermajority. After eight months in limbo, Al Franken is poised to be sworn in as the 60th Democratic senator - cause for celebration among party activists, the left stanley water jug y blogosphere and his fellow Democrats planning to give him a hero s welcome at Tuesday s caucus lunch. But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid D-Nev. isn t feeling especially giddy - and he s trying to bridge the gap between his herd-the-cats daily reality and rising expectations that he s just been appointed overlord of a filibuster-proof Democratic kingdom. What s really changed for us asked a leadership aide, hours after former Sen. Norm Coleman R-Minn. stanley cup usa capitulated to Franken. Nothing, really. Except there s a lot more pressure. For his part, Reid is doing his best to tamp down expectations that Franken s seating gives him license to trample the 40 Republicans in the upper chamber. We have 60 votes on paper, he told The New York Times on Thursday. But we cannot bulldoze anybody; it doesn t work that way. My caucus doesn t allow it. And we have a very diverse group of senators philosophically. I am not this morning suddenly flexing my muscles. N stanley canada ice try. But that argument isn t likely to assuage hungry progressives who have found their agenda stymied by left-right infighting among Senate Democrats and Reid s old-school consensus-driven management style. They have already begun to pr
RICHMOND- A former Virginia news anchor whose journalist girlfriend was fatally shot during a live broadcast in 2015 has defeated a Republican incumbent for a seat in the statehouse.Chris Hurst was living with fellow journalist Alison Parker when she and a cameraman were killed by a former co-worker while reporting for WDBJ-TV.After the shooting, Hurst became the public face of the grieving Roanoke station. That brought him national attention and a large socia stanley cups l media following. The Pennsylvania native quit his TV job and moved to Blacksburg to run for a House seat. He beat Joseph Yost, a three-term incumbent, Tuesday. Hurst s name recognition helped the first-time Democratic candidate raise over $1 million for his campaign, Roanoke noted. Yost, too, spent over $1 million on his campaign.The news site also reported that Hurst was also able to win substantial support from college students a stanley mug t Virginia Tech and Radford University. The student support there was critical for Hurst in conservative countie stanley cup s that otherwise supported Yost. Thanking voters in Narrows and Blacksburg. On to Radford next! GameOnVA pic.twitter/SXyzrZyd8dmdash; Chris Hurst @ChrisHurstVA November 7, 2017 Hurst s campaign was backed by gun-control groups, but that wasn t his main campaign issue. Instead, he focused on education, health care and the environment. More from CBS News Pgro Rand Paul grows testy defending former aide
This story was written by Glenn Thrush Oh, the burdens of a Democratic supermajority. After eight months in limbo, Al Franken is poised to be sworn in as the 60th Democratic senator - cause for celebration among party activists, the left stanley water jug y blogosphere and his fellow Democrats planning to give him a hero s welcome at Tuesday s caucus lunch. But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid D-Nev. isn t feeling especially giddy - and he s trying to bridge the gap between his herd-the-cats daily reality and rising expectations that he s just been appointed overlord of a filibuster-proof Democratic kingdom. What s really changed for us asked a leadership aide, hours after former Sen. Norm Coleman R-Minn. stanley cup usa capitulated to Franken. Nothing, really. Except there s a lot more pressure. For his part, Reid is doing his best to tamp down expectations that Franken s seating gives him license to trample the 40 Republicans in the upper chamber. We have 60 votes on paper, he told The New York Times on Thursday. But we cannot bulldoze anybody; it doesn t work that way. My caucus doesn t allow it. And we have a very diverse group of senators philosophically. I am not this morning suddenly flexing my muscles. N stanley canada ice try. But that argument isn t likely to assuage hungry progressives who have found their agenda stymied by left-right infighting among Senate Democrats and Reid s old-school consensus-driven management style. They have already begun to pr
