735: Building a Stronger America - Ryan Binkley's Presidential Vision

Brian Nichols  
Americans are as divided as ever. And this man is running for president to help bridge some unity. Let's talk about that. Instead of focusing on winning arguments, we're teaching the basic fundamentals of sales and marketing and how we can use them to win in the world of politics, teaching you how to meet people where they're at on the issues they care about. Welcome to The Brian Nichols Show. Hey there folks trying to cut you Tom, The Brian Nichols Show. And thank you for joining us on a for another fun episode. I am as always your humble host. Joining me live from our end Studios here in lovely Eastern Indiana and today, we are talking presidential politics with a presidential candidate joining us here on The Brian Nichols Show GOP presidential candidate Ryan Binkley over The Brian Nichols

Ryan Binkley  
Show. Well, thank you, Brian. It's great to be with you today. I'm so excited to share with you and your your audience about what's in my heart. So thank you for having me. Well, thank

Brian Nichols  
you for joining us, Ryan. And I'm looking forward to digging into finally a GOP president who's not named Trump or DeSantis. So thank you for joining the show. And let's do things here. start things off with you introducing yourself to the audience. Ryan, why are you running for president united states?

Ryan Binkley  
Oh, fantastic. Well, thank you. So I'm Ryan Binkley. I'm a business owner from Dallas, Texas. We do we have a company does business consulting there mergers and acquisitions, middle market, strategic consulting, and also my pastor. So my wife and I started a church about 10 years ago. So we've been doing both we have five kids in life and, and life has been busy. But this passion I ran for run for president came to my mind several years ago to just keep coming back. And I'm running for President because as you said earlier, in your introduction, our country has never been more divided in my lifetime than it is right now. We are incapable I think of solving some of the biggest problems we face until we unite on some key areas and how we're going to solve our financial crisis that we're in, I would call it healthcare crisis, even the border crisis we have and what's happening in urban America, there's so many things that we're really struggling with the next generation that we have to connect to. So I want to unite our country really to solve these biggest problems. And really, it's a spiritual problem and an economic problem. It's both and so we've kind of lost our way. And I think we need to find it.

Brian Nichols  
So looking at your website, I know one of the top things you mentioned with the divided government right now is seeking bipartisan solutions. Now I'm gonna put your feet to the fire. First question there, Ryan. And that is because a lot of Americans look at the problems we're facing, and they say, bipartisan solutions. I think these are bipartisan problems. So how do we get away from a lot of the problems that the two parties have actually helped create?

Ryan Binkley  
Wow. So you know, when we think about uniting our country, first of all, I think we got to do two things. One, we have to have a leader that speaks to the importance of it. Right now we've got leaders in place that are actually stoking division. And so this is what happens when you get to the place where we are right now, when leaders have no thought that we even have anything to unite on or in fact, they want to divide us even further to get political points or to get fans that are rather base up. That's not going to help us accomplish anything. And that's why every major President passes one piece of legislation, then after that, it's what 350 executive orders because they can't get anything done legislatively. And that's not who we are, as an American, we are a republic, we're supposed to be a nation of laws. And we actually have to do what Reagan did, which is transcend the party and connect to other people to pass laws, we have to speak to it. The other thing we have to do is pick a few things that we can unite on that are not Republican, or just democratic issues, but our American issues. The budget problem we have is an American issue. It's about your children, my children. The problem, we're having a healthcare, these are American issues, the border crises, these are American things. And I want to talk about what do we got to do to fix these because our country is at stake?

Brian Nichols  
Yeah, well, let's talk about one of those use raised up and that is the $31 trillion elephant in the room, our national debt. I remember I worked in a congressional campaign in 2012. I think we were around like 10 trillion or so and even then it was completely mind boggling. Now we times three, and now we're over $30 trillion in debt. How did we get here and how does the Ryan Binkley administration deal with this this debt crisis?

Ryan Binkley  
Well, I okay. So great question. You know, nobody's asked me that question. How did we get here? I think we really got here by by the Republican Party losing its and diluting its message of who we really are. You know, our message has really always been a message of freedom. Well, the freedoms that we have are really built on us being to be financially free. It's so hard to tell people you can live your dreams and you can do and become all you're supposed to be You. And by the way, we're saddled with so much debt that you can't do that because we're right now when this happens, you have bank failures. bank failures won't be loaning to companies as much for entrepreneurs, you can't buy a house, you can't do the things you want to do. So I think we got here because the Republican Party has not held its ground, we need to go back to being that party of Reagan being what Newt Gingrich did when He just held the line on going we've got to balance the budget, you know, it's been 30 years since we've had a balanced budget. So what do we need to do this 31 trillion, you know, we had both parties celebrating, what just a week ago that we came up with this bipartisan agreement to raise the debt ceiling for more trillion, and then in the next two years, so by the time I'll speak positively, here, I'm inaugurated, we're gonna be $36 trillion in debt. So what does this mean to our kids in the future? Well, it's detrimental, because about 8% of our current budget is paying interest on this debt today. And pretty soon, next five or seven years or so that could be a trillion dollars or more. And we don't have the money for that. So as we look at infrastructure, we look at strategic investing, we look at keeping our defense up, we look at even things that we're doing, we cannot continue at this pace. And this is I really feel this way, if we don't fix this now. This our generation will be known as the one that prospered the most was sacrificed the least, and will actually set up our children and our grandchildren and future with likely the weakest economic foundation since the Great Depression. So we have to fix it. We have to have a balanced budget, we have to stick to it and put together a 20 year plan 15 year plan to pay off pay off this debt. One of

Brian Nichols  
the main topics of conversation when I was on that said congressional campaign in 2012 was the the passage and then the point it was really focus on repealing. And I think we also talked about replacing Obamacare. And really since 2008, in the passage of that massive bill in 2009, a lot of our health care costs have skyrocketed. You've seen quality of care plummet. So Ryan, what would be a Binkley administration's approach to helping fix our broken health care system?

Ryan Binkley  
Well, first of all great points, because since that time, what we've done is we we didn't intend I think or verbally, the Republican Party, I tried to not make this socialized medicine. But really what we've done is we've already done that to a large degree. And this is what this is what we've done. This is the only thing that you and I in American people buy as a whole today in our economy, that we no longer walk into a doctor's office or a clinic or hospital and go, How much does it cost for me to be here today. And when that happens, when we no longer care, or we no longer know what X ray is, what an MRI is or what a doctor's visit is, then all of a sudden, we've lost control, we've lost the ability, the incentive, the influence, to shop properly, to even, you know, to see what things matter, the patient is not in control any longer. And so I'm going to recommend an actually transformation of healthcare because it's become a system of monopolies in every single state. I would call it an oligopoly where you have too few competitors in the insurance world, too few competitors in the healthcare providing world. And of course, we have some patent laws that need to be changed when it comes to pharmacy, pharmaceutical drugs that we have to change but and that since we have to bring in competition with healthcare exchanges. Right now. There's an old, old law out there that we need to repeal that does not allow insurance has to compete across state lines, competition will improve will help. And this is what we need price transparency, service visibility, knowing what the services are, are they related to a patient outcome or not? If they're not, we don't need them. I think you said it. We're number one in cost. We're not even the number of we're not even in the top 20 in developed countries with patient outcomes per dollar. And so we have to fix this. But it can be done through competition and price price transparency, primarily.

Brian Nichols  
Ryan Bigley, you're running for president here as a Republican and one of the main conversation points that Republicans like to focus on is energy independence. And I also hear some of our friends. On the other side, I'll talk about energy independence, but they do so through the lens of subsidies for solar and wind. But I think there might be some alternatives that you'd bring to the table. I'm hoping nucular is one of them. Ryan, what are your thoughts?

Ryan Binkley  
Of course, I mean, we need to be energy independent, we need to be exporting energy. We don't need to be importing energy. I tell people I was in Iowa this past week. Obviously, I am for every available form of energy right now that is cost effective. And it has less government involvement in it. So I can understand the reason for some incentives a little bit as things get started. But at the end of the day, we need to we need to go with the energy that we have. I'm trusting that American energy companies, we're going to do it better and more efficiently than Iran and Russia are and as long as we can agree with that we need to make sure that we're doing and we're expanding regardless whether that's out ethanol. But that's only gas, natural gas, certainly, nuclear, and we're just expanding it everywhere we can when we lead this way across the nation, and across the world, we will become stronger as a nation will lead stronger from a diplomatic standpoint, and a greater position of strength because when we're strong economically, then all of a sudden China and Iran and Russia began to listen to us all the more.

Brian Nichols  
Let's talk about what helped Trump actually get into the White House back in 2016. It wasn't the lock her up or by her emails, but rather it was build the wall. Immigration 2023 Here we are fast forward. Nine years later, almost it's hard to imagine. And still we are facing unprecedented immigration crisis at our southern border, but also up in my home state of New York, the northern border, it's as porous as ever as well. So, Ryan, what would be a Binkley administration's approach to dealing with our immigration crisis? Does it include in fact building a wall or actually finishing a wall?

Ryan Binkley  
Absolutely, it does. I really feel like this. This is where I think we as a country have to recognize something that we have had a out call just to kick the can strategy here on the border on the wall along with immigration for 50 years now. or longer. You could go back how come we have never been able to secure this border? Why is that the case and, and even President Trump when he had the House and the Senate, he had the right idea. But he's he didn't secure any resources, no money to do it. He told us he was gonna get Mexico to pay for it. And, and I heard they declined. So this is this is nothing that is, is going to happen unless you get bipartisan support on it. So I think we could we could dream that we could do this without money. But the reality is, it's going to take a barrier, it's going to take technology, and it's going to take people and when we can recognize and all those three things, you're going to acquire resources and money into the billions of dollars 10s of billions of dollars, maybe more, but it's worth it. And the reason it's worth it is because right now, as you know, two to 300 young people a day are dying of fentanyl. This is the equivalent of a large jumbo jet falling to the ground every day and US ignoring it, we have to do something about it. We've got human trafficking at an all time high right now we have to stop that. In addition, we've got just other crimes happening so much because of this porous border. So we have to seal it. But I actually think this, I would love to do that. If I could get all the funding, we could take care of it. But we still have another problem. We've got 1520 We don't know exactly how many millions of immigrants, they're here that many came across here illegally. And what are we going to do with them here? We actually have a worker shortage problem in many areas, whether that be in hard positions, whether it be landscaping, or construction or farming or manufacturing. And we have to decide what would we as a nation do about them? And what should we do? And right now, none of my other Republican friends are even communicating that this is a problem. But right now we have 20 million plus people, we have no idea who they are in our country. And I think it's time we bring them out of the shadows, we make them registered. The reason they're here is because we have companies offering them jobs. And we need to hold those companies accountable. I think we offer some sort of visa registration process for the jobs that we need, send people back that shouldn't be here send people back that, that we don't need them here or if they committed any sort of crime. But if we actually need jobs here, us to identify those and create a work visa program, not citizenship, but some sort of legal way to work here. I think if we do that, we can actually get the funding for it.

Brian Nichols  
So since February of 2022, up to today, 100 plus billion dollars have been sent from US taxpayers over the Atlantic to Ukraine to help Ukraine fight back against Russia. And I know I formerly hail from Philadelphia. I was there for seven years and I'm watching now is bridges are literally collapsing due to truck fire. So you're seeing right now whether it's Philadelphia or Flint, Michigan, still having their water crisis, American infrastructure at an all time low, while hundreds of billions of dollars of US taxpayer dollars going overseas to countries like Ukraine. So from a Binkley administration standpoint, what would be our approach to handling the Ukraine Russia conflict? And also how would that overall impact your foreign policy perspective, dealing with other countries like China, for example?

Ryan Binkley  
Right. So to me, they're all related, first of all, stems from finance with a few problems that you mentioned your infrastructure here in our country, that's happening not just because this Ukraine war that was happening, it's been happening for decades, right. So this is broken and will continue to be broken because we're spending too much money. Our government has never seen a tree that needs to be pruned. It hasn't cut a cost of anything in effect when it comes to defense defense spending. It has pretty much remained flat over the last 20 years, whereas every other social era spending from Medicare to Medicaid to Social Security even even all sorts of spending. We have is gone through the roof. And so we've got to learn to start stop spending so much money figure out what how are we going to buckle our belts a little bit. Now that said, getting back to Ukraine, I would do every when we're strong financially here, which when we solve the budget, we will be when we start getting our ducks in order, every other nation is going to start listening to us again, China will not even take our phone call today from the President of the United States. 20 years ago, I had a chance to go to China with business school leaders and some business leaders and they were inviting investment for us. They were just wanting us to partner on different issues. And now they won't even they won't listen to us at all. And the reason is, they're doing trades, and they're doing loans, because they're stronger financially from a debt perspective with Brazil, with Eastern Europe with Africa. And we're not at the table. So they're ignoring us today. When it comes to Ukraine. I believe this I believe in freedom. But I would I would resolve to end this diplomatically and relationally with strength with Putin right away, we have to stop it. In the meantime, though. I don't like the idea if we just walk away. And would we let Putin just, you know, clamor all over Ukraine? Do we think he would stop there, I have no reason to think he would stop there. So I liked the idea of defending freedom, but I would hold NATO accountable, make them pay their fair share right away. And we would end this war quickly.

Brian Nichols  
Let's go back to that city of brotherly love where I live for seven years, Philadelphia when I left Philadelphia back in the beginning of 2022, I looked around and I understood the city was a city in just absolute decline. And I unfortunately realized that Philadelphia was not indicative of just one city, but rather a lot of major urban areas across the country, whether that's Philadelphia, San Francisco, New York City, or all those blue cities in between. So, Ryan, how would a Binkley administration help foster and promote saving or helping restore some of those cities and the problems they're facing today?

Ryan Binkley  
Well, it's great that you mentioned Philadelphia, my ancestors actually came to Philadelphia. So I think it was 1763, they actually came right and settled in Lancaster, then they move on from there. So I have that place near and dear to my heart as well. But there is so much opportunity, I really think for the Republican Party, to have a message and to have a solution in the heart of urban America that really clarifies who we are as America and help solve them big problems. And this is what it is if I outline the current status of the Republican Party. First of all, we have lost 46 of the top 50 cities by population in the last election. We're not even there at the table with them. I'm from Texas, we lost Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Austin and for the first time in 65 years Fort Worth. So first of all, we have to we have to decide, do we want to ignore urban American? I'm saying absolutely not. We need to have inroads in there. But this is what we have to do. We have to recognize that much of urban America, they're receiving this socialism message that, hey, the Democrats, they're gonna take care of you financially, they're gonna give you free health care for you tuition. And that's actually a fourth if we're thoughtful. And we consider the poor people that don't know where next week's coming from, actually a socialist message is actually and can be very compelling. And so what we're trying to do is come up with another message that hey, freedom is the message. smaller government is message us paying for your health care paying for your tuition is not in your best interest, particularly long term. We've got to show them how, but I believe this, we have the best opportunity because we can show them right now the socialism doesn't work. Look what's happened to our banking system. Look what's happened to inflation, the American Dream is hardly achievable. When you can't get a loan, or you can't go to college today, because it's so expensive. You can't get an apartment because it's so expensive. College students even today, their dream was just to be financially independent, you know, get an apartment, get a car, get a job, all three of those are harder today than they've ever been before. So this is what I'm recommending, though. If I believe that small government is the way and the government, big government is not the answer, then we've got to go in there. So what what is the answer? I'm going to ask businesses, corporations, individuals, churches and charities, not the federal government to own your city. Would you consider developing community programs, community schools, after school programs for kids, and job training trade centers, we have to reinvest privately back into urban America and show them that a free economy is the best path with them. Let them look us in the eye because we're spending time volunteering, helping them get new jobs, helping them be trained, help them learn how to set up a bank account for their business. And I want to do this with education. If I can pivot, help them see that we care about them. Because I think when we start to educate minorities in urban America at a higher level, we can help in the cycle of poverty. I'll stop there for a second but I believe these are the answers for urban America.

Brian Nichols  
Perfect. And one of the last questions I had here for today was focusing more related towards not just your your faith, but also towards where a lot of conservative Americans have found themselves maybe on the winning side for the first time in decades. And that is the argument of pro life. And we saw, you know, the Roe v. Wade being struck down by the Supreme Court, this conversation is now being pushed towards the states. So what would a Binkley administration do to help continue that conversation to help continue a pro life agenda?

Ryan Binkley  
Well, first of all, everything that I'm going towards is how do we unify our country to solve the biggest issues and so this is one, obviously, I am pro life. And so I believe life matters at every stage of life. And so, I do believe this though. Nobody's hearts changed whenever Roe v. Wade was overturned. So if you're pro life, you're still pro life. If you're pro choice, you're still pro choice. In fact, I would like to think the number of abortions gone down in America since Roe v. Wade was overturned, but I'm really not sure. Because there's abortion pill, women can just take that pill. So unless we change people's hearts, this is not really going to change a lot. I don't think so. I would like to change the culture of life in America, I'd like to help everyone see that. So when I start thinking about this, I started thinking about what could we do to help alter that, and two things came to my mind. One, I think we can help educate and be more readily available and be more of a resource to young people today that could find themselves in an unplanned pregnancy? And what are the resources in the that they have today? Many women that might be in a moment of crisis, you know, a lot of times there's not a parent there, there's not a father there, there's not a husband there. Many times there's not been a friend there, you know, can we be more available and letting them know that there's resources there to help them financially, I had a chance to visit with a young man who was on the board of a crisis pregnancy center in Dallas. And, and it was a Christian alternative one, and, and he was telling me if there was more funds available, so many more women would choose a life because so many of them are concerned about how they're going to do it their first year, I think we can be their hands and feet more. The other thing I think we can do to change the culture of life, is to start an adoption movement that's easier, more affordable and accessible for people to adopt today, as well as honoring all those that have helped with foster care. But also recognizing there's 10s of 1000s and hundreds of 1000s that that ended up not being adopted through foster care, many aged out through the system, and they end up being in a poverty cycle. But what if we, we adopted not just them to infants, but also 10 and 12 year old kids that are waiting on a family today? I think we can do more. I think this will help change the culture of life. So if there is an unplanned pregnancy that many women would see over time, well, I know I have options. And I also know that if I wanted to get my child up for adoption, there's a lot of loving families available. I think we can do more.

Brian Nichols  
Ryan, this show we talk about sales and marketing and how we can bring it to the world of politics. So in sales, not only are we trying to solve problems, but more often than not, we're trying to differentiate our solutions. So unfortunately, that means you have to differentiate between a lot of other candidates who've already tossed their hats into the ring and to focus on pretty much the top two people in the GOP race right now. Obviously, former President Donald Trump and uh, Florida's governor Ron DeSantis. So right, how would you differentiate your campaign and where you would see a Binkley administration in 2024 leading versus a Trump or DeSantis? Administration?

Ryan Binkley  
Okay, there's four things that I'm talking about that I've not heard either one I'm saying at all. Balanced Budget is number one, I have not heard one of them say, We want seven half trillion dollars in debt under Donald Trump. I don't think our nation could afford that. Again, I've not heard DeSantis mentioned a thing. In fact, I've heard him talk about expanding the office of the presidency. And I think that means because he knows he can't pass any legislation. Number two, I'm not hearing one of the mentioned about we have a problem with healthcare, healthcare inflation is 40% higher than regular inflation. And if we don't solve that it is eating away our economy, we'll never have a chance. The third is an urban renewal and education system. And this is what I'm asking. The Republican Party lost 70% of the college vote to Joe Biden in the last election. And we're not even at the table at college campuses. And this is what I would like to do. I'd like to start a volunteer movement, think of the Peace Corps in the 60s and 70s. But asking young people, and I'm calling it serving and volunteering and education, save as the acronym. What if we could begin to start a volunteer movement asked young people to volunteer five or 10 hours a week, and help tutor a third grader, a fifth grader, an eighth grader to get their reading levels up at the right level. Only 15% of minorities are at eighth grade reading level as they should be. It's only about 60% of even anybody in suburban America. We can change education. And I want to do that through a volunteer movement. I want to teach Americans show America that you know what we can we can unite by serving again and believe in each other again and I want to unite our entry, both or other top leading candidates are leading by division. I think DeSantis is trying to help Trump Trump. I don't think that's going to work. We need to unite our country to solve these biggest problems. And that's what I want to do.

Brian Nichols  
Ryan Binkley it has been an absolute pleasure. I know we're hard pressed for time here. So that being said, I think it'd be great if you could do us a favor and let folks know where they can go ahead and support your campaign and also following on social media they want continue the conversation.

Ryan Binkley  
Well, thank thank you very much Binkley 2020 four.com is our website address that's Binkley 2020 four.com. Obviously find us on Facebook and Instagram. We are sharing this message all the time. We're heavy in Iowa have a strong Iowa New Hampshire strategy. We're being heard out there. We had a chance to be at the Georgia GOP convention this last weekend. It was an honor to be there. And I think this we just need to get on this debate states and share a more limited government but a freer government a united party. I see the Republican Party reaching out into urban areas more we need to broaden the Republican Party tent. We only won 46% of the vote in the last two general elections. It's not going to happen on either the platforms DeSantis and Trump are running arm we have to expand our reach when it's time for the Republican Party to reach out to young people in urban America again, we want to do that by uniting our country and we actually need 40,000 unique donors to get on the debate stage that can be just $1 If you liked this message you want to hear it on the debate stage would you go to the Donate side donate $1 even it can be of course more but but that will help us and thank you very much I look forward to sharing the message all the more please follow us and share

Brian Nichols  
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