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CBS was still in a state of euphoria Wednesday evening after Democrats won big on Election Day the previous night. During CBS Evening News, the network ran two different segments glorifying Democratic victories in Virginia and elsewhere. “Across the country, the 2017 elections saw big wins for a highly diverse group of candidates,” announced Anchor Anthony Mason at the start of the second segment.
CBS reporter Chip Reid began his report by touting the victory of anti-gun candidate Chris Hurts in Virginia. After noting how Hurts lost his girlfriend to a deranged former colleague who shot her, Reid hyped how a “grieving Hurst decided to run for the Virginia House of Delegates as a Democrat in a Republican area and won.”
Sticking with wins in Virginia, Reid praised the victories for Democratic women:
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