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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton are leading the race to become their parties' nominee for president.

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Now that Donald Trump officially has won the Republican nomination for president of the United States, the following reasons I believe is why he will win in a landslide in the general election in November against Hillary Clinton:

First it's fair to say that voters tend not to vote for the party incumbents after 8 years. The other two reasons are: Donald Trump is so much like Ronald Reagan, and Clinton's scandals will also seal a Trump victory decisively.

Trump and former president Reagan have more in common than you think:

Reagan/Trump both are/were Washington outsiders.

Reagan/Trump both are/were dismissed as a serious candidate.

Reagan/Trump both were attacked by the establishment as being extreme and naive.

Reagan/Trump share/shared "passion" for what each believes in.

Reagan/Trump both have/had similar views on illegal immigration

Reagan/Trump both are/were straight talkers.

Reagan/Trump both are/were TV stars.

Reagan/Trump both began as Democrats before becoming Republicans.

The Clinton scandals will ramp up through November, and I feel that the following will be mentioned in the presidential campaign should Trump become the Republican nominee. They are as follows:

The Clintons have been accused of hiring private investigators to not only dig up dirt on perceived adversaries - such as Juanita Broaddrick, the woman allegedly raped by Bill Clinton, and other abused women such as Gennifer Flowers, Kathleen Willey and Paula Jones - but to stalk, scare and threaten them. Hillary claims she is for women's rights!

Huma Abedin, who served as Hillary Clinton's longtime deputy chief of staff and has worked with her for nearly 20 years, has known ties to the Muslim Brotherhood - a group bent on "destroying Western civilization from within" - and other Islamic supremacists.

Clinton gave 55,000 emails from her private email account to the State Department in December. On March 10, Clinton announced she had deleted 30,000 emails she considered personal. She was warned by Congress way back in 2012 against using a private email account for government business - and her response? Silence. This alone makes her unfit to be the next president.

On Sept. 11, 2012, while Clinton was secretary of state, Islamic militants attacked a U.S. special mission in Benghazi, Libya, and murdered U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and U.S. Foreign Service Information Management officer Sean Smith. Two CIA contractors, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, were also killed.

Several months leading up to the attack, Clinton's State Department cut security in Libya. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., accused her of "dereliction of duty" that led to the deaths of the four Americans.

Clinton's scandals, Trump being so much like Ronald Reagan, I feel makes him an excellent candidate to be the next president of the United States.

KEVIN STANLEY

JERSEY CITY