5-27-26 Morning Rush - A Chat With Congressional Candidate Elizabeth Dempsey Beggs
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Dave Neal
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🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Live in East Nashville, May 29th - go to https://www.rushhourwithdave.com/calendar for tix!
On this morning episode of The Rush Hour Podcast, we sit down with Virginia congressional candidate Elizabeth Dempsey Beggs for an honest conversation about what it really takes to run for office in today's political climate. From grassroots fundraising and media pressure to connecting with voters and balancing family life, Elizabeth shares the highs, lows, and realities of stepping into the political arena. We also discuss the growing frustration many Americans feel toward establishment politics, why more everyday people are considering public service, and how candidates attempt to break through the noise in a divided country. It's a candid, insightful conversation about leadership, ambition, and the personal sacrifice behind modern campaigns.
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| 0:00.0 | Our guest today on the Rush Hour podcast is running for office in Virginia's first district. |
| 0:04.9 | She's a veteran, a mother, and a foster mom. |
| 0:07.4 | Please welcome Elizabeth Dempsey Beggs. |
| 0:09.5 | How are you? |
| 0:10.3 | I'm good. |
| 0:10.9 | How are you? |
| 0:11.6 | I'm doing great. |
| 0:12.6 | I first became aware of you through your running videos on Instagram. |
| 0:16.6 | You've built quite an audience running for office and bringing community together. |
| 0:21.0 | So what's the process been like running for office in Virginia? |
| 0:25.5 | Well, if you follow Virginia politics, you would know that the last couple months have been |
| 0:30.5 | a little abnormal running for office in Virginia because we did have redistricting referendum. |
| 0:36.4 | We then had a lot of time, money, effort onto that |
| 0:39.1 | vote, which was then overturned by the Virginia Supreme Court. So every candidate kind of bounced |
| 0:43.8 | around their districts. I entered this race to turn it blue from Rob Whitman in Virginia's first |
| 0:49.0 | district. And that with the referendum, the first district essentially got dissolved and became a completely |
| 0:56.2 | new district. It moved the representative from the seventh, Eugene Vindman, into the first district |
| 1:00.9 | and moved me around, and then that got overturned. So I'm back in the original first district |
| 1:06.4 | to doing exactly what I entered this race to do, but it's made it a little crazy and chaotic, |
| 1:11.5 | but that's kind of the point in being a representative. The maps changed, the mission didn't it. |
| 1:15.8 | Yeah, you know, it's, it's been wild to follow. We've always known of gerrymandering in this |
| 1:20.7 | sort of arms race that's started this round by Texas and everyone's getting involved. |
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