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Recalling her 2008 campaign, when she was oft criticized for remaining in the race against Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that she wouldn't call for Bernie Sanders to drop out. Clinton: I'm the last person who would tell Sanders to walk away

Hillary Clinton feels strongly that she's going to win the Democratic nomination, but said it wouldn't be fair for her to call on Bernie Sanders to drop out.

“I'm the last person who would tell anybody to walk away from a campaign because I remember very well, and I think you commented on this quite a bit, people telling me not to go to the next contest, not to make my case,” Clinton said, referring to her 2008 run for the Democratic nomination, in an interview with MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Wednesday.

Clinton made the comments after suffering a bruising loss Tuesday night in Wisconsin. Sanders has won seven of the last eight nominating contests, but he's still badly trailing the former secretary of state in the delegate race. Also, the upcoming calendar gets rockier for Sanders because many are closed primaries that knock out independent voters.

In recent weeks, Clinton has appeared to become increasingly frustrated with the prolonged primary fight and the Sanders campaign's attacks upon her record.

But in the interview of Wednesday Clinton said its Sanders' choice on when to exit and she express gratitude for co-host Joe Scarborough's comments about her back in 2008.

Scarborough recalled how Clinton was beating back calls for her to drop out "when you were winning states by 30 points."

"That's the double standard in full flower, so I'm well aware of that. I appreciate it. Back in those days you were one of my biggest defenders, that if I wanted to keep going I definitely should,” the former secretary of state said. “So I feel the same way. I think it's up to Senator Sanders.”

Clinton also said she wasn't concerned about Sanders' stronghold on young voters and stated that she thinks they're attracted to the Vermont senator because they were “in effect protesting.”

“Look, I think it's exciting to be in effect protesting. I remember I did that a long time ago when I was in my 20s, and I totally get the attraction of this,” Clinton said. “And all the research that I have seen about who is supporting Senator Sanders, a lot of the young people like both of us, they really like me, they admire what I've done, what I stand for and they really, really like him.”

The former secretary of state didn't give Sanders a pass overall, attacking Sanders for his editorial board interview with the New York Daily News in which he struggled to answer exactly how he would break up the big banks — one of his primary policy stances.

“I think the interview raised a lot of really serious questions and I look at it this way. The core of his campaign has been break up the banks, and it didn't seem in reading his answers that he understood exactly how that would work under Dodd-Frank, exactly who would be responsible, what the criteria were," Clinton said. "That means you can't really help people if you don't know how to do what you are campaigning on saying you want to do."

But when asked repeatedly if Sanders was qualified to run for president, Clinton demurred.