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Elspeth Snow Murday
Elspeth Snow Murday (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent South Carolina's 3rd Congressional District. She lost in the Republican primary on June 11, 2024.
Snow Murday completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Elspeth Snow Murday earned a bachelor's degree from Cook College at Rutgers University–New Brunswick in 2006 and earned a doctorate degree in bioinformatics and functional genomics from Clemson University in 2015. Her career experience includes working as a farmer.[1][2]
Elections
2024
See also: South Carolina's 3rd Congressional District election, 2024
South Carolina's 3rd Congressional District election, 2024 (June 11 Republican primary)
South Carolina's 3rd Congressional District election, 2024 (June 11 Democratic primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House South Carolina District 3
Sheri Biggs defeated Bryon Best and Michael Bedenbaugh in the general election for U.S. House South Carolina District 3 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Sheri Biggs (R) | 71.7 | 248,451 |
 | Bryon Best (D)  | 25.3 | 87,735 | |
 | Michael Bedenbaugh (Alliance Party) | 2.9 | 9,918 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 609 | ||
| Total votes: 346,713 | |||
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Republican primary runoff election
Republican primary runoff for U.S. House South Carolina District 3
Sheri Biggs defeated Mark Burns in the Republican primary runoff for U.S. House South Carolina District 3 on June 25, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Sheri Biggs | 51.0 | 28,156 |
 | Mark Burns | 49.0 | 27,064 | |
| Total votes: 55,220 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House South Carolina District 3
Bryon Best defeated Frances Guldner in the Democratic primary for U.S. House South Carolina District 3 on June 11, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Bryon Best | 62.4 | 5,188 |
 | Frances Guldner | 37.6 | 3,129 | |
| Total votes: 8,317 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Daniel Duncan (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House South Carolina District 3
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House South Carolina District 3 on June 11, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mark Burns | 33.2 | 27,069 |
| ✔ | | Sheri Biggs | 28.8 | 23,523 |
 | Stewart Jones | 18.7 | 15,260 | |
 | Kevin Bishop | 11.0 | 8,972 | |
 | Franky Franco | 4.3 | 3,494 | |
| Elspeth Snow Murday | 2.1 | 1,754 | ||
 | Philip Healy | 1.9 | 1,552 | |
| Total votes: 81,624 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Andrew Adams (R)
- Jeff Duncan (R)
- Michael LaPierre (R)
- Patrick Orr (R)
Alliance Party convention
Alliance Party convention for U.S. House South Carolina District 3
Michael Bedenbaugh advanced from the Alliance Party convention for U.S. House South Carolina District 3 on April 20, 2024.
Candidate | ||
| ✔ | | Michael Bedenbaugh (Alliance Party) |
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Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Snow Murday in this election.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Elspeth Snow Murday completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Snow Murday's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I'm an agronomist, not a career politician, but have political experience and success - I can put extra money in your pocket, reduce your bills, and force large companies to deal with people fairly.
I fought paralysis for about a decade. After the doctors gave up on me, I taught myself neuroimmunology while I struggled to read. The source of my medical problems is a genetic sequence which has never been found in any other person, living or dead, and which restructured my entire brain. As a result, I spent ten years walking in every other human being's shoes on the worst days of their lives.
I was the only candidate who registered to run a year before Jeff announced his retirement - eleven months before I found the final key to my recovery. I heeded the Call and my faith was rewarded. The rest waited for the attractive target of an empty seat. My decisions are not based on odds of personal gain but on necessity - saving my country is not optional.
God's greatest gift to mankind is the foundation of this nation's Constitution - free will. I can reforge our nation but you must choose me freely.
This election you do not need to settle for a lesser evil, Good is on the ballot.
You will get what you vote for.- Balance the budget, enact term limits & campaign finance reform, and end birthright citizenship.
- Monthly town halls - make transparency and accountability into an institution.
- Support our farms, rural communities, and traditional families.
America First
Balanced budget
Campaign finance reform
Conservation
Constitutional rights—ALL OF THEM
Criminal justice reform
Domestic manufacturing / economic independence
Election interference
Energy independence (esp. nuclear)
Fiscal responsibility
Healthcare reform (e.g. mental health, drug pricing, veterans care)
Immigration reform - end birthright citizenship
Lobbying reform
National defense
Natural resources & stewardship
Promotion of traditional families
Reduction of foreign home & property ownership
Tax reform (e.g. none on primary residence)
Technology (esp. social media, AI)
Integrity - morals, courage, accountability, transparency.
Competence - effective, results-oriented problem-solving followed by decisive action.
Wisdom - correct prioritization, strategic action, empathy, and humility born of self-knowledge.
Author necessary legislation.
Be a good role model.
Create opportunities for district.
Read legislation before vote.
Remain accessible.
Represent district's interests alone.
Seek out information independently.
Solve problems, don't just talk about them.
Take a stand when necessary.
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Campaign website
Murday's campaign website stated the following:
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My campaign promise is simple: monthly town halls.
One question or concern per county (you decide which to submit at a local level) which guarantees I will be forced to read and answer every single one without evasion. We’ll make accountability and transparency into an institution which survives my time in office. If I reliably show that real representation is possible, is a reasonable expectation, you’ll start to treat it like just a normal thing. Once it’s normal for you, you’ll start getting upset with other elected officials who don’t meet your expectations of transparency, accountability, and availability. Maybe you’ll even start voting them out. This is how we begin to reset the government.
If everyone knows where and when I will provide one source of firsthand information, people can begin to unplug from social media, and that whole cycle of polarization and mistrust. I can even keep a website with updates, videos, material from lobbyists, etc. where nobody needs to follow or pay for information. You and your family and neighbors will be able to share political opinions based on the same set of facts – like back when we all tuned into the same couple channels of nightly news. This is how we begin to reset the country.
Instead of working together to address these issues, we struggle to pass one bill per year. Our neighbors are not the enemy. Nobody has a monopoly on patriotism. We must remember that our identity as Americans is all that matters to hostile nations; they will take down the whole ship based on our essential values like capitalism and democracy. Some of our enemies are successfully engaged in economic and information wars against us. Some are gearing up for military conflict. Until we’ve faced modern existential threats and corrected glaring problems within our government, being Americans ought to be all that matters to us.
The government should be answering to the electorate alone. In South Carolina, buying one person’s vote is a felony—unless you do it with a Super PAC, and the one person happens to represent half a million voters. Right now, a foreign country can be funneling infinite money into a candidate’s campaign (and some of them are, using 501(c)(4) organizations.) Our elected representatives are quite literally for sale to every other foreign government. Campaign finance reform and election security must be addressed first, in order for other efforts to have any effect. Term limits need to be the next target, which is why I’ve promised to serve no more than four terms in the House. My first term in the House, I will introduce and gather support for a new Constitutional amendment with the aim of limiting foreign and corporate interference in the democratic process. We cannot allow an adversary, or a handful of corporations, to control our elected officials.
The wealth gap is growing, the middle class is shrinking, and class mobility has all but disappeared. Most of our manufacturing jobs have gone overseas. White-collar work is increasingly outsourced or performed by AI. People fortunate enough to have college degrees and full-time jobs are still struggling to support themselves; they can’t even consider children. Younger generations are increasingly anti-capitalist because they have never even seen a merit-based economic system. Corporate welfare has been out of control their entire lives. If we want Americans to be more traditional, capitalistic, and family-centric again, one salary earned by your mid-late 20s must support a household. Education must not cause debt, or must not be required to earn well. In 2022, the average age of a first-time home-buyer was 36. A first pregnancy after age 35 is “geriatric.” Younger generations haven’t lost the way—our government policies stopped prioritizing the American Dream. We’ve got to change that so young Americans get the chance to have families of their own.
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| —Elspeth Snow Murday's campaign website (2024)[4] | ||
Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on April 29, 2024
- ↑ LinkedIn', "Elspeth Murday," accessed June 4, 2024
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Elspeth Snow Murday's campaign website, “Platform,” accessed June 4, 2024
