Ned Ryun

Ned Ryun is an American conservative activist who is the founder and CEO of American Majority, a conservative organization that trains candidates and activists.

Education and background Ryun is the son of Jim Ryun, the former Republican congressman and distance runner.

Career in government and as conservative activist Ryun was a speechwriter for President George W. Bush. He is the founder and president of American Majority, a Virginia-based conservative political training institute allied with the Tea Party movement. The group was founded in 2008. of which Ryun was CEO. Ryun has been a board member of the American Conservative Union. During the 2011 Wisconsin protests against Republican Governor Scott Walker's proposal to restrict collective bargaining and organized labor, Ryun helped organize counter-demonstrations in favor of the legislation.

A career Republican Party operative, In 2016, Ryun was a long-shot candidate for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee.

Ryun is a staunch ally of Donald Trump. In 2017, Ryun critiqued the Republican tax proposal for not going far enough, accusing the bill of being "a grab bag of goodies for the uberwealthy globalists." In September 2020, after Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, Ryun pushed for Trump to fill the vacancy created by Ginsburg's death before the November 2020 presidential election. He pushed for Trump to nominate Amy Coney Barrett over Barbara Lagoa. In 2023 Ryun was listed as the Director of Over the Horizon Action, an organization linked to the Rockbridge Network, which has ties to the Trump administration.

Ryun has spoken in support of the second Trump administration; he has appeared on Fox News praising the administration for its efforts to reduce or eliminate federal grant money to universities and for the "somewhat punitive" tariffs that it has levied against some countries, and has said that critics and protesters of the Trump administration are "irrational" and called Trump derangement syndrome "an incurable disease".

Works Ryun is the author of three books:

The Adversaries: A Story of Boston and Bunker Hill (2021) Restoring Our Republic: The Making of the Republic and How We Reclaim It Before It's Too Late (2019) American Leviathan: The Birth of the Administrative State and Progressive Authoritarianism (2024)

In addition, he has co-authored two books with his father and twin brother, Drew Ryun: Heroes Among Us (2002) The Courage to Run (Gospel Light Publications: 2006),