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Ely Murray-Quick

Charleston, South Carolina realtor and constituent who approached Rep. Nancy Mace at a Mount Pleasant Ulta Beauty store on April 19, 2025, to ask about town halls; Mace's filmed expletive-laden response went viral.

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Ely Murray-Quick is a Charleston, South Carolina realtor and small-business owner. He operates the Murray Property Group and is affiliated with Highgarden Real Estate in Charleston. Murray-Quick, 32 at the time of the incident, identifies as a gay man. He is a member of the LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance. (Daily Beast, April 2025; The Advocate, April 2025; LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance member directory.)

Connection to the Nancy Mace record

On Saturday, April 19, 2025, Murray-Quick encountered Rep. Nancy Mace at an Ulta Beauty store in Mount Pleasant's Town Centre, in the congressional district Mace represents. Murray-Quick approached Mace in the skincare aisle and asked whether she would be holding any in-person town halls for constituents in the coming year. The exchange lasted under three minutes.

Murray-Quick later told reporters he maintained a distance of six to eight feet, "maybe even 10 feet", at all times and said there was "no physical confrontation" and "no aggression" on his part. Both parties filmed portions of the exchange on their phones; both posted videos to social media. The exchange included profanity by both parties.

Mace posted her video to X (formerly Twitter), characterizing Murray-Quick as "some unhinged lunatic" wearing "daisy dukes at a makeup store" and stating on Fox News: "I felt threatened and harassed." Her post was viewed more than seven million times. Murray-Quick responded on X: "I asked for a town hall, you threw a tantrum in Ulta." He also stated publicly: "A fire was lit ... a simple 'f*** you' from Nancy Mace isn't going to hurt me." (Daily Beast, April 2025; The Advocate, April 2025; Post and Courier, April 21, 2025.)

CNN subsequently aired Murray-Quick's own video alongside Mace's, with reporting describing Murray-Quick's approach as "calm", in contrast to Mace's characterization of the encounter. Murray-Quick told the Daily Beast that Mace "couldn't answer" his simple question and that she was "playing the victim card." He described himself in a public statement as "well-moisturized" and "tired of the circus."

Murray-Quick told reporters at the time that he was doing volunteer work for a Democratic candidate running against Mace.

No criminal complaint or charge arose from the incident. Maceopedia has a dispatch covering the encounter: Nancy Mace's Ulta Expletive Goes Viral.

The two videos

Both Mace and Murray-Quick filmed the encounter and posted their own footage. Both are playable below.

Mace's video, the one she posted herself, was viewed more than seven million times. She posted it to X with a caption calling Murray-Quick "some unhinged lunatic, a man, wearing daisy dukes, at a makeup store."

Nancy Mace's own video of the Ulta exchange, posted to her X account on April 19, 2025.

Murray-Quick's video, filmed from his side of the aisle, is the footage that CNN later aired alongside Mace's. CNN's reporting described his approach as "calm."

Ely Murray-Quick's own footage of the encounter, as aired by CNN (his name appears on screen). His original Facebook upload of the clip is no longer public; CNN's airing is the available copy. Watch it at CNN on YouTube.

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