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Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, accompanied by his wife Jane, arrives to speak to reporters, Friday, April 8, in New York. | AP Photo Jane Sanders: Clinton will fall short of pledged delegates

Hillary Clinton will not walk into the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia this summer with enough pledged delegates to secure the party's nomination, Jane Sanders said Thursday, adding that she expects her husband, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, to be short as well. But she suggested he would emerge as the nominee with enough superdelegates to win.

"So if we keep on going with this momentum, we can cut them and cut them," Sanders said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," addressing the margin between Clinton and her husband in pledged delegates. "I don’t think anybody’s gonna get the amount of pledged delegates they need when you walk into the convention. And if that happens, then I would expect that people would be looking and saying who’s the stronger candidate, and every poll says that Bernie’s the stronger candidate against all of the Republicans, and that’s only going to get better.”

Asked point-blank whether Clinton would have enough delegates to clinch the Democratic nomination, Sanders said the former secretary of state would be "just short."

"Going into the convention, I think she'll be just short, and we'll hopefully be just short, and I think then we'll have a discussion about the best way to go," Sanders said, remarking of the superdelegates, "Well, they haven't voted yet. They haven't voted yet."

As to whether the Democratic primary process is "rigged" because of the use of superdelegates, Sanders declined to characterize it as such but voiced her own concerns.

"I don't know that I would call it a rigged system. I don't — every state has its own rules. I think it's crazy. We're running a national election, we should have same-day registration, open primaries and caucuses and allow the people to vote," Sanders said. "We have — a lot of those — probably a lot of those people out there in the crowd — hopefully a small number comparatively — are not even able to vote in this election because they didn't change their registration to Democrat last October when they hadn't even heard of Bernie Sanders."

New York is a closed primary, meaning that only registered Democrats can vote on April 19. Sanders has tended to fare better in open primaries and caucuses, taking advantage of his appeal to independents.

"We're bringing more people into the party, and the party is shutting the door on them. That seems counterproductive to the long-term goals," Jane Sanders added. "But I think — we're very hopeful. I guess what we've done is keep a very positive outlook and looking forward to changing the system. If he is the president and the head of the Democratic Party, we'll be changing the system to make it more democratic."