Washington (CNN) Hillary Clinton is "bringing the same-old, same-old to the table" in her just-launched presidential campaign, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus says.

The GOP head compared Clinton's tactics -- kicking off her bid for the Democratic nomination with a cross-country minivan trip from New York to Iowa -- with her first solo political campaign, the 2000 New York Senate race.

"There's nothing new with Hillary Clinton's campaign. It's the same exact thing that she did -- what, now, 15 years ago," Priebus told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Monday. "So there's nothing new there to see."

The RNC chief's comments preview a contrast that several Republican contenders -- particularly Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, the trio of freshman who have officially entered the race so far -- are trying to draw with the 67-year-old Clinton.

There's an age gap -- but Clinton's decades in the public eye has also left her with baggage that short-tenured Republicans don't have to carry.

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