I don’t think the hildabeast expected an actual competitor for the job. It was probably prearranged that Yeb would be the sacrificial republican this time around.
Of course it was. Not only that, but Jebbie and the other Bushes are as incestuously intertwined with the Clintons as two octopuses copulating, meaning there would have been no way for him ever to raise any corruption and treason issues against the Witch. Thank God for Trump!!