"They lost the election fair and square. They got less votes. They won less states. They won less pledged delegates. They had less super delegates. They lost every single metric," he said. "There's absolutely no evidence whatsoever that the elections, and Senator Sanders has never claimed that the elections themselves, have been anything but absolutely valid and on the up and up." Phillippi volunteered for Wasserman Schultz's 2016 campaign but has never been a paid staffer for her.