http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/clinton-trump-romney-wealth-223712Clinton gives Trump the Mitt Romney treatment
The attacks on Donald Trump have a familiar ring to them.
By Gabriel Debenedetti
05/31/16 05:19 AM EDT
He’s too rich and out-of-touch to understand the problems facing average Americans. He’s hiding something in his tax returns. He’s a cold-blooded capitalist predator — and there’s a recording to prove it.
If the Hillary Clinton campaign’s attacks on Donald Trump feel a little familiar, it’s because they appear to be straight from Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign against Mitt Romney.
That push was successful, as Clinton’s allies are quick to point out. But it also runs the risk of being a little too conventional for a candidate as unconventional as Trump, leaving some former Obama operatives and Never Trump Republicans eager for reassurance that the Romney approach isn’t the only arrow in the quiver.
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