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Local Pastor Announces Presidential Bid

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Ryan Binkley | Image by Josh Carter/The Dallas Express

The Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center was decked out in red, white, and blue at The University of Texas at Dallas as local pastor and businessman Ryan Binkley announced his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election.

The Dallas Express and a crowd of more than 1,000 supporters were at the university campus on Sunday to hear Binkley’s announcement.

Binkley is the pastor of Create Church in Richardson. He is also the president and CEO of Generational Group, which focuses on business consultancy, mergers and acquisitions, and wealth advisory for business owners.

He told the crowd that the number one word describing America is “divided” and claimed that America would become unified under his leadership.

He calls his leadership “The Way to Freedom,” adding that it is time for America to believe and unite together again to create a brighter future.

“I’m running because God placed our country in my heart in a really strong manner. … He wants to unify our country and bring a message of freedom to every people group in our nation in a different manner than we do today,” Binkley told The Dallas Express following the announcement.

One of the first issues he would tackle as president is the federal budget.

“I want to balance the budget. It’s something we haven’t done in over thirty years, and we need to be able to have a budget that works for our country,” Binkley said. “We’re about $32 trillion in debt; 8% of our budget is paying the interest on that debt, and so we have to get our budget in line.

“And we have to do it prudently. We need a lot of care, and it’s going to need bipartisan leadership,” Binkley continued.

Binkley also addressed his concerns about the U.S. military. Although its armed forces are among the most technologically advanced and strongest in the world, the military is failing to meet recruitment goals.

In 2022, the Army fell short of its goal by 15,000 soldiers. That is a 25% shortfall, according to ArmyTimes.

The Army, Navy, and Air Force expect to fall thousands short of their recruiting goals in 2023, according to MilitaryTimes.com.

Binkley told The Dallas Express that he believes young people want to be a part of something, but “woke” policies are unappealing.

“I believe that when young people see a nation that is caring for others and giving back to others, that they want to be a part of it all the more. I think our message from our defense perspective is that we need to be up there championing the message of liberty, but we need to be doing [it] in a diplomatic way,” said Binkley.

“Our message needs to be that we’re bringing security, peace, … strength, and success everywhere we go, and I think a lot of young people want to be a part of that. The woke policies are keeping a lot of people from that.

“We would correct that. We would bring common sense back in our military,” Binkley said.

Binkley is just one of several Republicans running in the 2024 presidential election. The crowded field includes former President Donald Trump, who is favored to win the Republican nomination, and Nikki Haley, the first female governor of South Carolina in 2010 and U.S. ambassador to the U.N. during the Trump administration.

Larry Elder, a conservative talk radio show host who ran for governor of California, biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, and former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson have also thrown their hats in the ring.

Binkley told The Dallas Express that it is time to believe again.

“Let’s believe in God, let’s trust in each other, let’s believe in the greatness of America. I think if we can believe again, it can be contagious,” said Binkley.

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8 Comments

  1. ThisGuyisTom

    I admire those who honestly, altruistically wish to better conditions.

    However, most potential candidates and more than 90% of Americans are extremely uninformed about system fundamentals and history.
    Ironically, these same adults advocate for “education”, but they themselves refuse to thoroughly research topics of substance.
    Examples:
    How is money ‘made’, what’s the founding history of The Federal Reserve and who owns it?
    And while we view the inception of the Federal Reserve, some of those same elite players also hijacked the educational structure of America, and also hijacked and formed the medical-industrial complex.
    And so much more that is not in High School textbooks.

    The most trustworthy potential candidates will openly discuss these deeper fundamentals which prop up the problems which we face today.
    The most trustworthy journalistic endeavors will also discuss the deeper fundamentals with cited sources.

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  2. ThisGuyisTom

    “Operation Northwoods”
    How many candidates and voters are aware of this?
    How many want to know?…and that hits the crux.

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    • ThisGuyisTom

      It is the willingness to find out, the willingness to go down the rabbit hole of investigating.
      It is the willingness to look and seek out.
      If potential leaders can’t do it and voters can’t do it, then we will always have more of the same corruption.

      March 1962 – “Operation Northwoods” lands on Kennedy’s desk from the military top brass, signed by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Lyman Lemnitzer.   It called for a False Flag Event to justify invading Cuba (such as blowing up and killing Americans). Declassified 15 pages – https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/news/20010430/northwoods.pdf
      Of course, JFK did not sign it and then had Lemnister reassigned. Many CIA, FBI, and military leaders resented this.
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~
      There are many other examples.
      There are many, many extremely well documented historical events which should alarm the average individual or candidate, but most have not the fortitude to go there.

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    • R Reason

      The Northwoods Memo has no legs; it was debunked long ago; fascinating yes, but a ‘rabbit hole’, nevertheless.

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      • ThisGuyisTom

        You are absolutely incorrect about it being ‘debunked’.

        Reply
  3. ThisGuyisTom

    The following quote has broad implications because it strikes at the trait essence of most Americans.

    Tucker Carlson needed to be “silenced” because he represented too big a threat to the…
    “powers and principalities, institutions and agendas that seek an unenlightened uninformed semi lobotomized quasi retarded population that do not question, do not research, do not analyze but simply digest and follow instructions,”
    according to US counter-terror expert Scott Bennett.

    Ignore the Tucker Carlson or Scott Bennet characters.
    The message itself has legs because it is true.

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    • R Reason

      Zany, exaggerated definitions of the human condition and of the powers that be, absent of original insight, might be amusing but they are not helpful.  

      Reply

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