The Case Against Greg Murphy

“Desperate to cling to their narrow House majority, North Carolina Republicans shoved through a sloppy gerrymander, unwittingly putting Greg Murphy on the chopping block. Murphy has grown far too comfortable ignoring his constituents and only looking out for himself. Those days are over. Raymond Smith is a proud veteran and longtime leader in the Eastern North Carolina community – people know him and they trust him. This November, North Carolinians are going to force politically-untested Greg Murphy into retirement and elect real leadership to Congress,” said DCCC Chair Suzan DelBene.

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To: Interested Parties
From: Madison Andrus, DCCC Regional Press Secretary
Date: March 3, 2026
Subject: The Case Against Greg Murphy

The race for North Carolina’s 3rd Congressional District is a choice between proven leadership and cowardly cruelty. 

A former member of the North Carolina House of Representatives and combat U.S. Army veteran, Raymond Smith knows the issues facing Eastern North Carolina families because he’s faced them himself. After spending his career fighting for and protecting American families, strengthening his community as an educator and football coach, and expanding access to health care and education in the North Carolina General Assembly, Raymond is ready to fight for his neighbors in Congress, where he’ll work to lower costs and make life more affordable – from health care to insurance to the grocery store.

For Greg Murphy, the cruel disregard for the people he claims to represent seeps through everything he does. Greg Murphy doesn’t serve the people of North Carolina’s 3rd Congressional District – he serves himself and his fellow wealthy D.C. buddies.

Murphy’s support for Medicaid cuts and inaction on cost-raising tariffs that are devastating North Carolina, coupled with the fact that Republicans’ gerrymander “came at the expense of Republican Greg Murphy, whose Third District has become more competitive,” NC-03 is solidly in play for Democrats this November.

Murphy: The Driving Force of North Carolina’s Health Care Crisis

There is no doubt that Greg Murphy has been disastrous for North Carolinians who desperately need affordable health care. Even as hardworking families in Eastern North Carolina faced skyrocketing insurance premiums of up to 350%, Murphy attempted to kill the bipartisan efforts to extend lifesaving ACA tax credits which helped keep health care costs low. What’s more, Murphy’s vote for the disastrous Big, Beautiful Bill not only threatened to kick more than 36,000 people in NC-03 off of their health insurance, but it also put nearly half a dozen rural hospitals in the state as risk of closing, forcing rural North Carolinians to drive up to an hour or more to get to the nearest emergency room.

Unlike Murphy, Raymond Smith worked to expand health care access in North Carolina. During his time in the state legislature, Raymond introduced legislation to expand Medicaid so hundreds of thousands more North Carolinians could access affordable health care.

Local Doctor Wishes Patients Would Stop Bringing Their Problems to His Office

Greg Murphy’s abandonment of North Carolina’s families doesn’t end in the halls of Congress, he takes his callousness with him into his doctor’s office, as well. When he was trying to convince his fellow Republicans to join him in gutting Medicaid with the largest cuts to the program in history, Murphy bragged that he personally didn’t believe that his own patients who relied on Medicaid were actually disabled and deserving of health care coverage. If it were up to Greg Murphy, there would be no affordable health care for his patients or his constituents.

As a leader in his community and his church, Raymond Smith knows North Carolinians are deserving of affordable health care and will fight in Congress to undo the impacts of Murphy’s cruelty.

Murphy is Another Rich Politician Who Doesn’t Care About Rising Costs

Greg Murphy is one of the wealthiest people in Congress with a net worth of almost $25 million, nearly 400 times the median household income in NC-03. So when working families in North Carolina have difficulty making ends meet, Greg Murphy certainly can’t relate – nor does he care to. Murphy voted TWICE to uphold the disastrous tariffs that are wreaking havoc on North Carolina’s economy and working families. These tariffs are costing North Carolina 8,000 jobs and nearly $8 billion – their price tag for North Carolina farmers alone is $700 million.

While working families worry about how they’re going to put food on the table with the cost of groceries like beef and juice up significantly, Greg Murphy is rolling in cash, having passed a tax break for himself and his wealthy friends in the Big, Beautiful Bill. And how did he pay for that tax break? With cuts to SNAP and Medicaid, harming the people of NC-03 for his own benefit.

North Carolina voters deserve a representative that cares more about the issues facing working families and less about padding his own wallet. 

While Murphy raises costs for working families, Raymond Smith has a record of streamlining the Wayne County government in order to put money back in taxpayers’ wallets.

WHAT THEY’RE SAYING

HEADLINE: ‘I Don’t Personally Think They’re Disabled’: House Republican and Doctor Questions His Patients’ Medicaid Eligibility [Mediaite, 03/25/25]

HEADLINE: Concerned constituents hold town hall to voice concerns to Rep. Greg Murphy

“On Monday night, over 30 residents from North Carolina’s 3rd Congressional District came out to voice their concerns at a constituents town hall hosted for Rep. Greg Murphy.

Murphy, who was invited, was not in attendance at the town hall saying he had an existing commitment.

“I’m disappointed that he’s not here,” Robin Terhorst, a Greenville resident said. ‘That he’s not here to listen to us and what our concerns are, so you know hopefully next time he will be here. It’s important in this very volatile time that we have community with our congressman.’” [WITN, 06/16/25]

HEADLINE: Protestors write letters, stand outside Congressman Murphy’s office demanding action [WNCT, 02/20/26]

HEADLINE: These NC Republicans voted for Medicaid, SNAP cuts that will hurt their districts most | Opinion

“Take North Carolina’s 3rd Congressional District for example, where 30% of the population is enrolled in Medicaid, according to a database from health research organization KFF. That district is represented by Rep. Greg Murphy, who is a doctor himself. Days before the vote, Murphy was hesitant to support the bill, saying he was “having a hard time getting to the point where I can support the Senate package,” largely due to the impact that it could have on funding for rural hospitals.
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None of that seemed to matter 24 hours later, when he supported the bill despite the impact it could have on his constituents.” [Charlotte Observer, 07/08/25]

PATH TO VICTORY: 
In their cynical ploy to dilute the will of Black voters, North Carolina Republicans inadvertently made NC-03 significantly more competitive by adding in key blocks of the Democratic base, Black voters and young voters. Black voters – who have routinely rejected Greg Murphy and who are souring on D.C. Republicans – now make up almost 30% of the electorate.

This new district is by no means the safe seat that Republicans thought they had. Governor Josh Stein won this district in 2024 and Roy Cooper nearly carried it in 2020. In an environment that is increasingly unfriendly to Republicans with voters abandoning them in droves due to their disastrous agenda, Raymond Smith is gearing up to defeat Greg Murphy.

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