The wife of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersKenosha will be a good bellwether in 2020 Biden's fiscal program: What is the likely market impact? McConnell accuses Democrats of sowing division by 'downplaying progress' on election security MORE said she and her husband will support party front-runner Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonWhat Senate Republicans have said about election-year Supreme Court vacancies Bipartisan praise pours in after Ginsburg's death Trump carries on with rally, unaware of Ginsburg's death MORE if she secures the nomination.

Jane Sanders told The Daily Beast that if Clinton beats her husband to win the nomination, she'd encourage the Vermont senator's followers to back Clinton.

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Similarly, she said she hopes Clinton and her supporters would vote for Bernie Sanders if he wins.

During the interview, Jane Sanders said the superdelegate system is unfair, but said she thinks some superdelegates will switch their support to her husband.

She also slammed the New York primary rules, calling it "crazy that in New York anybody who wanted to vote for Bernie had to make a change last October to say they were in the Democratic Party."

She added her husband is "trying to reinvigorate the party" and is bringing "many, many more people in across the country."

On Thursday morning, Jane Sanders said in an interview on MSNBC that she thinks Clinton will be "just short" of the pledged delegates needed to secure the party's nomination ahead of the convention. She said the superdelegates who are supporting Clinton could end up supporting her husband.

Clinton has 1,289 pledged delegates and the support of 469 superdelegates, according to The Associated Press. Sanders has 1,038 pledged delegates but is backed by just 31 superdelegates.