Trump Is Going After Hillary the Same Way He Went After Jeb--But Will It Work?

Donald Trump’s main rival is an extremely well-funded, life-long professional politician who has tied themselves not only to a previous president both in name and policy, but in scandal and weakness.
Trump Is Going After Hillary the Same Way He Went After Jeb--But Will It Work?
Republican Presidential candidate Jeb Bush watches as his brother, former President George W. Bush, speaks at a campaign rally on February 15, 2016 in North Charleston, South Carolina. The Bush campaign is seeking support in South Carolina, where George W. Bush is popular with the state's large military population, before the Republican primary on Saturday, February 20. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
5/24/2016
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5/24/2016

These all point to weaknesses in the Clinton campaign that are hard to overcome—just as Jeb found out, it’s hard to run from a name—and Trump’s tactics could work if Clinton ignores the imperfect legacy she’s come to embody and inherit. 

For Hillary, the biggest challenge in the coming general election is not how she’s going to get Bernie Sanders’s supporters in line—as NBC’s Chuck Todd has suggested—but how she’s going to avoid a similar fate as Jeb Bush.