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A Close Landslide The road to the presidency was long for Ronald Reagan. His race to the presidency started in 1976; Reagan thought President Ford was too much of a moderate liberal and decided to run against him. The first few months did not go well; by March, he had lost five primaries in a row. The Republican National Committee wanted him out of the race and the campaign was in debt. Reagan and his aides were in a hotel room in Wisconsin and met to debate getting out of the race. The talks went back and forth before Reagan decided to borrow another hundred thousand dollars and declare he was running all the way to Kansas City and he did not care if he lost all the primaries. The day after the decision to continue the race, he won the primary in North Carolina. This illustrates Ronald Reagan’s strong will to win the presidency. This paper will show how that strong will helped Reagan win the election of 1980. Ronald Reagan was mentioned as a presidential candidate in every election since 1968; many republican rivals thought him too old to be a force in 1980. One of the first things Reagan did, when entering the run for the president, was establish a political actions committee. The committee collected and contribu