Bernie Sanders’ wife defended her husband’s kid-glove approach to his Democratic rival, saying the campaign is about inspiring people — not tearing them down.

It’s an approach she hopes will lead to victory this coming Super Tuesday, she said on Boston Herald Radio’s “Morning Meeting” show yesterday.

“We are constantly being criticized for not being harder-hitting on (Hillary Clinton), but Bernie believes that we want to give the American people something to vote for, inspire them, encourage them to participate in the process, reinvigorate our democracy,” Jane Sanders said. “You don’t do that by playing politics as usual, which is artfully distorting the other person’s record.”

Responding to a Gallup poll that found people describe Clinton as “dishonest,” Jane Sanders disagreed. She said she thinks “public servant” when she thinks of Clinton.

“She’s been quite an effective leader,” she said. “I don’t think that her issues — the way that she sees the world at this point in time — is the way that we should move forward. We think that at this point in time Bernie’s progressive agenda … is what the American people need and want to see happen.”

Jane Sanders also spoke about her husband’s relationship with Massachusetts U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, noting “there’s been a lot of pressure for her to join her other women senators and endorse Hillary.”

But she is not concerned that the liberal firebrand hasn’t taken a side in the Democratic contest.

“(Bernie) is more interested in having the endorsement of the people, he’s focusing on the voters as opposed to endorsements,” Jane Sanders said.

She said she and her husband don’t even try to fit the mold for how a president and first lady are expected to look.

“We don’t try to appear that way,” she said. “We are who we are. But most New Englanders, they feel comfortable in their own skin and (have) nothing to prove. So, yes he is 74 but, my gosh, he runs circles around the twenty-somethings in terms of stamina, I mean endurance, running and not taking a day off.”

She also stressed her husband hopes to win the Massachusetts Democratic primary next week, plugging the state as a “progressive” battleground that “knows Bernie and knows the issues that he is concerned about.

“That is what the political revolution is about — getting people energized, invigorating our democracy and getting people to participate, not just on voting day but the day after the election,” she added. “Because if they vote for Bernie they’re signing up to work.”