As the 2016 presidential primary race comes to a close next week, many Democrats worry that their likely nominee, Hillary Clinton, is struggling in her campaign. Her Republican rival Donald Trump has seemingly changed the race and has many Democrats wondering if a more provocative campaign against him is needed.

Kathleen Dolan, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, said that she thinks the former Secretary of State and first lady should change tactics in her faceoff against Trump.

"I think the Democrats have to worry that they don’t panic too much," said Dolan.

However, she said that there are a lot of things known about how elections and campaigns work and getting rid of all the tried and true methods "just because it’s Donald Trump" might be a mistake.

"This is certainly going to be a different campaign than we generally see, but I don’t know that we can safely say that the only way to be successful is to do things completely differently," she said.

According to Dolan, Clinton isn't likely to be successful trying to engage Trump in a policy-oriented campaign.

"I don’t think you can get him on the issues. I think she has to decide what her strategy is and at some level, stick with it," she said. "I think she has to guard against being sucked down the road of some of the more salacious and more outrageous things he says."

Instead, Dolan said Clinton ought to articulate her own vision and articulate concerns about the kind of president that Trump could be and ask the American people to think about who we are as a nation.

She said that Clinton can't plan to influence Trump's campaign style.

"I don’t know that she is going to have much success in anything that will structure his behavior," she said.