Chris Hurst looks to fulfill campaign promises after winning Virginia delegate seat

BLACKSBURG, Va. – Chris Hurst celebrated his delegate seat win with his family and friends and supporters from across southwest Virginia. Results show Hurst's large majority in Montgomery County pushed him to the win.

He says his strategy was all about reaching voters in all areas of District 12.

"We wanted to talk to as many people as possible. To understand the needs and concerns of everybody in this district. Whether they lived in Pulaski or Blacksburg and Giles County," said Hurst.

"There's a young man's name I want you to remember. This guy's name is Chris Hurst," said Sen. Mark Warner. 

Hurst said the shout out from Warner doesn't add more pressure to his staff or anyone who helped with the election. 

"The pressure has really been placed by the people of this district up on me. And that's where I'm feeling the pressure. Because we ran on the campaign of wanting to give a louder and stronger voice to the New River Valley. And now I have to deliver," said Hurst. 

And Hurst plans to deliver by improving education and Medicaid expansion in Virginia.

"That will help 4,000 people in my district who are in need of access to that. I think that is a great accomplishment if we can do that. We also need to address route 100 and route 460 and the infrastructure needs," said Hurst. 

Hurst said he believed he could win the election, even though his opponent Republican incumbent Joseph Yost had served for six years.

"I wouldn't have done anything that I didn't think I was going to be able to accomplish," Hurst explained. 

And, Hurst said, he can use his past experience in journalism to help people in the district in a more direct way by taking their issues and concerns all the way to Richmond.