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Jane Sanders also highlighted her husband's policy differences with Hillary Clinton. | Getty Jane Sanders: Bernie backers won't go for Trump

Jane Sanders on Tuesday rejected the notion that, as Donald Trump has suggested, independent voters supporting her husband's candidacy would switch to backing the real estate mogul in the general election.

“I tend to not agree with that," the Vermont senator's wife and top political surrogate opined on MSNBC. "There is agreement on trade and very strong disagreement with Secretary Clinton on trade," she offered.

Trump told Fox News' Sean Hannity on Monday night that "a lot of the young people" currently supporting Sanders "are going to come over to my side because they want jobs."

"They see what's happening. And Bernie Sanders and I agree on one thing: trade," Trump said. "That we don't know what we're doing on trade. The difference is I'll make great deals out of it, he doesn't know what to do. I mean, he's a socialist. He doesn't know what to do. I'll make great deals out of it."

But "across the board," Jane Sanders remarked simply, "no."

"I mean, foreign policy, as Secretary Clinton said, his ideas are scary," Sanders said, all the while touting her husband as the more reasonable alternative to both party's front-runners.

"On the other hand, when you look at who's the best commander in chief, you look at somebody with the judgment not to vote for the Iraq War, to do a number of the things that he did as senator," she continued, referring to Clinton's 2002 vote as a senator to authorize the war in Iraq, a continued point of emphasis for the Sanders campaign.

Sanders also said the campaign disagrees "with the military intervention stance and regime change attitude that Secretary Clinton has."

"So of the three of them, I believe, not surprisingly, that Bernie would be the best commander in chief and a lot of people agree with us," she said.