Greg Murphy

would think

So, all right, well, let's move on to away from U.S. Senate and look at U.S. House and races to watch because they're tilting maybe a little bit different directions in Congress, including the Greg Murphy race.

Esther, you've been writing about Murphy's race a little bit lately.

Why don't you start us off?

Is this dude going to step foot, the president, not a dude, but is he going to step foot in any district that is anywhere close to competitive or that is traditional, even that could be competitive? This week, he's going to Park City, Kansas, right? Ron Estes' district to Trump 23.

Greenville, North Carolina, Greg Murphy's Trump plus 14, which, by the way, we had heard is actually close.

So maybe that counts, but it shouldn't count.

Clemson, South Carolina, Sherry Biggs district, where Trump won by a slender 43 points.

You know I went to Washington last year in, uh, March of twenty twenty-five.

And though this wasn't one of the acts that we actually rallied for, uh, or advocated for, this one is worth noting because on October ninth, last Friday, according to Janine Gleba, the advocacy manager who I've mentioned many times before, Bill H.R. one zero seven eight seven, the Access to Medical Supplies Act, was introduced to Congress by Greg Murphy, a Republican in North Carolina, and Representative Brad Schneider, rep from Illinois, Democrat from Illinois.

So I'm telling you here at the One Leg Up Alex Media Center, the Access to Medical Supplies Act is necessary because it provides a practical path forward to address the concerns central to our advocacy efforts for the CMS ruling that includes ostomy supplies in Medicare's competitive bidd-bidding system.

Rather than c-permanently exempting ostomy and urological supplies from competitive bidding, the legislation would argue, or would provide a five-year delay on competitive bidding for ostomy and urological supplies.

And we're seeing that borne out by the breaks we're seeing from the likes of Ashley Henson or Mike Rogers talking about this issue and the war in Iran and gas prices as well.

And you're also seeing it in some other places you might not expect, including in the district of Congressman Greg Murphy in North Carolina, who represents a district that Trump won by, I believe it was 14 points.

in 2024.

And Trump will actually be nearby when he travels to North Carolina next Tuesday.

He's out with a new ad talking about essentially the cost of living and these issues.

Listen.

I'm Greg Murphy.

I drive to D.C. and across eastern North Carolina all the time.

And I talked to Morgan about a number of these other races too.

Um, how do y'all overcome all of this? I mean, some people are trying to put Greg Murphy's district in play.

Yeah, I mean, uh-

Which I've-- And that, that will be a pretty good a sized wave if that occurs.

I'm not talking about these people.

I'm talking about the lesser-known bench riders like, uh, Greg Murphy here, who got in trouble last week when he, when he talked about, uh, uh, he's betting that the American people are willing to go through a little pain to get to, through to the good times.

He says that while Donald Trump is saying these are the good times.

This is the golden age.

So thank God we're doing this, and cleaning up, and getting rid of the garbage that's in our country.

And you hope that messaging gets out there, right?

Serious question, Greg Murphy.

Serious question.