During Hillary Clinton’s run as Secretary of State, she was using a private email server instead of the state government server. Confused? Her email address ended with @ClintonEmail.com instead of @State.Gov. When the Benghazi investigation was going on and emails were requested from the State Department it came to light that Hillary was using her own private server. Jackpot. More scandal and more legs to “Beghazi” plus another investigation. The FBI chose not to prosecute and called Hillary’s email set up, “extremely careless”. It left her open to be hacked, which there is no evidence every happened. It was just another scandal to create countless attack ads for 2016. The next Republican nominee should have plenty of talking points against Hillary around “Benghazi” and email servers. It should be simple for them to paint Hillary negatively and win the election if all goes as planned. Then Donald Trump happened.

When the primaries began no one believed Trump could get the nomination. There is no way the Republican party was going to abandon their own for someone like Trump who has dipped his toe in all corners of the political world. So what happened? Simple, every Republican nominee pooped the bed. Yes, I said it. Jeb Bush had some name recognition and was supposed to be the favorite. Trump bullied him and Bush looked meek and soft in comparison. Bye-bye Jeb. Rubio had the chance to be the young energetic “new blood” face of the Republican party, but he just couldn’t get any traction. Along with the strong hate that was brewing for Mexicans and Muslims, Rubio was too much of an “other” for the party to embrace. That left Ted Cruz to dethrone Donald. Nope, Cruz is just not a likable guy and everything about him screams “off”. He’s just got one of those faces that people just can’t trust. While Donald Trump masterfully said little to anything in any debate or speech, he was able to throw zingers left and right at the competition the entire primary run. Many decided not to fire back and some fired back too late. Trump was not shy to say outlandish things about his opponents. Actually about anything, really. It worked and now we have Hillary vs Trump for President of the United States in 2016. Hold on to your passports America, this is going to get ugly fast.