Drawing a marked contrast to the presumptive Democratic nominee and perhaps one GOP hopeful, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus told a packed CPAC ballroom that the race for the Republican nomination in 2016 remains wide open.

“There will be no coronation in the Republican party,” he declared. “If you want to win the nomination, you’re going to have to earn the nomination.”

An obvious dig at Hillary Clinton — who is considered all-but-guaranteed to earn the Democratic nod — Priebus’s warning may have also been aimed at the legacy candidate in his own party, former Florida governor Jeb Bush, who’s considered the front-runner for the Republican nomination.

Jeb’s name has earned boos from this year’s CPAC audience at some points, and some conservatives would suggest a Bush nomination might amount to a coronation of the next prince in the Bush dynasty.

As a Wisconsinite and long-standing friend of Scott Walker, Preibus was perhaps trying to take some wind out of the sails of the Wisconsin governor’s chief 2016 rival.