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Bernie Sanders' campaign has increasingly turned its strategy to picking up undecided superdelegates or those supporting Clinton. | Getty DNC official discounts contested convention

A top Democratic official on Wednesday downplayed the likelihood of a contested convention this July in Philadelphia and promised a united party, even as the primary between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders has grown more heated and the candidates have drawn closer in pledged delegates.

“Well I don’t think we’ll get to that. I think this will be settled long before the convention," Luis Miranda, the communications director for the Democratic National Committee, said during a segment on CNN's "New Day."

Miranda's comments are a direct rebuttal of the rhetoric coming from the Sanders campaign, which has begun talking up the idea of a contested convention. He also emphasized that 85 percent of the delegates going into the convention are pledged delegates allocated by caucus and primary victories and not superdelegates.

"So I’m confident that we’re gonna have a very exciting rest of the primary. There’s still a lot of the states to go, we’re well into it. But this is where it gets exciting," Miranda said. "It’s crunch time and the candidates are doing everything they can to get down this final stretch. But ultimately, we’ll get to the convention united, and we’re gonna come out pretty strong heading into the general election.”

Asked what would unify the Democrats, Miranda remarked that the 2008 primary "was actually much more heated."

"This has been a campaign that’s been respectful, it’s focused on the issues, it’s been substantive. I think that’s what we’ll see Thursday. I think it’ll be exciting," he said, referring to the Brooklyn debate on the same network. "You’re going to candidates obviously wanting to draw sharp differences. They obviously want to make a point and distinguish each other. But look, they’re arguing about degrees about how to better cover people in health care, how to better improve the economy."

"Even on this credibility debate, it’s which one of them is more credible and stronger, ultimately works to highlight that we have two pretty good candidates, two solid candidates who are much better positioned to be president in November and who are going to set up a really good contrast with Republicans, who have had a very ugly primary, who are going to have an ugly convention," he continued. "Already, they’re setting it up for a big fight, who frankly have focused on insults not just on each other but on the voters and the way that they’re handling themselves.”

The Sanders campaign has increasingly turned its strategy to picking up undecided superdelegates or those supporting Clinton. On Tuesday, Clinton press secretary Brian Fallon fired back at the notion that the primary process was "rigged," saying that if any candidate were trying to rig the system, it would be Sanders' team by trying to "flip superdelegates and get him to overturn the will of the people as expressed through who’s won the most contests."