 Snyder was the chairman of the 2012 Virginia Victory Campaign and ran for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia in the 2013 United States elections where he failed to win the Republican nomination.Snyder declined to run for the Republican nomination for governor in 2017, instead chairing the campaign of Ed Gillespie.Snyder's early career included stints as the director of public affairs at BrabenderCox and the senior political director for Luntz Research Companies.