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Hillary Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook disputed the turnout at Bernie Sanders' rally Wednesday in New York City's Washington Square Park, which the Sanders campaign said was as high as 27,000. | AP Photo Clinton campaign manager questions Sanders crowd size

Hillary Clinton’s campaign on Thursday dismissed the brouhaha over Bernie Sanders' mega rally in Washington Square Park that sparked a reported turnout of 27,000 people on Wednesday.

Campaign manager Robby Mook remarked that the only crowd that matters is the crowd of Democratic voters who cast votes Tuesday in New York, where Clinton currently leads by double digits in an average of recent state polls. He also questioned whether Sanders’ rally was as large as he claimed.

“Well, first of all, the park service is saying it was significantly smaller than that. I think they’re actually saying it might have been as small as a third of the number that the Sanders campaign is quoting,” Mook told CNN. “But again, what matters in this race is the voice of the voters, and Hillary Clinton is overwhelmingly winning this primary contest.”

Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon earlier credited the Vermont senator for bringing more people into the election process but downplayed the significance of his crowd.

“That’s a good thing overall for the party. We tip our cap to him in terms of the enthusiasm that he’s generating,” Fallon said. “But we’re concerned with one crowd measure, which is who shows up to vote, and in the highest turnout elections that we’ve had throughout this primary process, that’s where Hillary Clinton actually tends to win.”

“Crowd size is nice,” he added, “but when it counts next Tuesday, we think we’ll come out on top.”

Sanders’ campaign manager Jeff Weaver, phoning into CNN later Thursday during a break in debate prep, hailed the senator’s gathering as a sign of his momentum while also knocking the “rather small and modest rally the secretary was holding at the same time uptown.”

“It was an incredible, incredible experience. You know, a lot of people who've been in politics for a long time in New York can't remember anything like it,” Weaver said. “So I think that there is a lot of momentum on Sen. Sanders that may well push him over the top. But we're certainly gonna do very well regardless, and we're certainly on a path to the nomination.”