Josh Hafner

USA TODAY

Hillary Clinton teed off on Bernie Sanders Wednesday, downplaying the Vermont senator’s victory in the previous day’s Wisconsin primary while characterizing him as unknowledgeable on his campaign’s key issues.

"I think that Sen. Sanders had a good night last night, and I congratulated him,” Clinton told CNN in an interview.

“But if you look at the numbers, I’m still considerably ahead in both the popular vote and most importantly the delegate count. So I’m feeling very good about where we are.”

Earlier that day, in an interview with MSNBC, Clinton slammed Sanders for a recent New York Daily News interview in which he struggled to specify how he would break up big banks — a key issue in his campaign.

“I think he hadn't done his homework, and he'd been talking for more than a year about doing things that he obviously hadn't really studied or understood,” Clinton said.

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Later, on CNN, anchor Chris Cuomo drew a comparison between Sanders’ momentum coming off his Wisconsin win and that of Barack Obama, the underdog senator who passed Clinton in her first presidential bid in 2008.

Clinton waved off the comparison.

“Let’s keep focused on what the facts are here,” she said. “I have a really considerable lead in the popular vote, and I have a considerable lead in the delegates.”

Clinton leads Sanders by 252 pledged delegates. She also has, however, 469 unpledged "superdelegates," party leaders and elected officials who have indicated they plan to support her.

The race’s next big primary showdown looms in New York, the state where Sanders, a Brooklyn native, was born. It’s also the state Clinton represented for eight years in the U.S. senate.

“I think I know the state a lot better,” Clinton told CNN. “I have a lot of recent experience.”

[h/t CNN]

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Bernie Sanders under fire for edit board interview