Ryan Binkley
Ryan Binkley
TX-32 Republican nominee?
$39.3K
MAY 27, 2026Primary Election
Party selects its nominee.
Overview
Current roleBusiness executive
PartyRepublican
Political ideologyConservative Republican
GenderMale
LocationTexas
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BackgroundBusiness executive
EducationUniversity of Texas at Austin (BBA)
Notable personal detailsRyan Lee Binkley is an American businessman and pastor based in Richardson, Texas. He has served as president and CEO of Generational Group/Generational Equity, a middle-market mergers-and-acquisitions advisory firm. Binkley and his wife, Ellie, co-founded Create Church, where he has served as a lead pastor. He ran for the Republican presidential nomination in the 2024 election cycle and later filed as a Republican candidate for U.S. House in Texas's 32nd congressional district (2026 cycle).
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Positions
Economy & Taxes
The candidate supports cutting taxes and reducing federal spending, and favors removing regulatory barriers to promote economic growth. His campaign messaging calls for tax reductions and limiting wasteful spending to help families and small businesses.
Healthcare
Supports market-based changes to lower costs and increase competition in the health insurance market, including allowing more competition among insurers and providers across state lines and increasing transparency; criticizes the Affordable Care Act/Obamacare and proposes limiting or freezing federal spending on Medicare and Medicaid. Positions emphasize private-market solutions rather than creating a large new federal entitlement program.
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Immigration & Border
Supports stronger border security including physical barriers and technology, ending sanctuary city policies, stricter asylum/enforcement measures, and use of E-Verify and guest-worker/regularization mechanisms tied to border security. Policy proposals emphasize funding for barriers and ports-of-entry technology and prioritizing enforcement before broader legalization pathways.
Abortion & Reproductive Rights
Supports policies that restrict abortion at the national level but frames solutions around promoting a "culture of life," adoption, and state-level action. Has said he would be willing to sign national abortion restrictions while also emphasizing supporting adoption and state decision-making.
Climate & Energy
Supports American energy production and energy independence, including expanding oil, natural gas, and nuclear power, while opposing certain carbon-capture pipeline projects on property-rights grounds. Emphasizes energy independence and market-driven approaches rather than endorsement of aggressive emissions regulations or Green New Deal–style policies.
Public Safety & Guns
Supports strong Second Amendment protections, rejects assault-weapons bans as ineffective, and argues that gun-free zones can reduce safety; favors policies that prioritize law enforcement and public safety over new federal gun restrictions.
News
Ryan Binkley is in the news because he is one of nine Republicans running in the Texas 32nd Congressional District primary. The race is in a newly redrawn district that now leans more Republican, and it is expected to go to a runoff because no candidate is likely to win a majority. Binkley is part of a crowded field that also includes Paul Bondar, Darrell Day, and Jace Yarbrough.
Fundraising
Latest report: Cycle 20262026
LatestCycle 2026
Source: FEC
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