Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz mocked the 'chaos' in the GOP today and insisted that comparisons to her own party's bitter battle over the White House are erroneous.

Bernie Sanders has accused the national party of stacking the deck against him at the convention, and many of his supporters say they will not vote for Hillary Clinton in November if she's the Democratic nominee.

Yet Wasserman Schultz told reporters on a press call, 'I'm not at all concerned that we are going to have a divisive fight at our convention. At our convention we are headed towards unity.'

Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz mocked the 'chaos' in the GOP today and insisted that comparisons to her own party's bitter battle over the White House are erroneous

The DNC head's stated purpose for holding the call was to warn lawmakers and Republican Party leaders they can run from Donald Trump's inflammatory statements but they will not be able to hide in November.

'The irony is that Trump’s impending nomination is the result of years of the Republican Party elevating extreme voices, and using divisive campaigns that sought to exploit unfounded fears for political gain,' she said. 'They’ve made their bed, and now they’re lying in it.'

Trump's status as the presumptive nominee 'ensured his party’s problems won’t be limited to convention chaos -- he’s going to force GOP races big and small across the country to own his ugly, divisive and dangerous rhetoric all the way to the general election,' she argued.

As reporters pointed out the division within Wasserman Schultz's own party, exemplified by Sanders' assault on the DNC, and the possibility of a food fight on the convention floor in Philadelphia this July, the leading Democrat argued that it's not the same at all.

A House Speaker refusing to support his party's nominee is 'unprecedented' she said as she discussed Paul Ryan's meeting tomorrow with Trump on Capitol Hill.

Additionally, past Republican nominees and presidents are boycotting their party's convention over Trump, she noted.

'The Republicans are in unprecedented division and chaos, and frankly they've acknowledged that they are,' she argued.

That's not to say that Democrats are all rowing in the same direction at present, either, though, she admitted.

'Towards the end of any campaign, primary or general, you're gonna have more pointed language used and the candidates are gonna make sharper distinctions with one another,' she said.

The Democratic Party official candidly stated, 'I've cautioned both candidates and their campaigns and their supporters to be mindful of the tone that they use, especially at this point, because in short order we're going to need to be able to reunify.'

'And while I'm confident that once our candidates, once they sit down at the end of this primary, that they will be able to come together, and they'll set the tone for their own supporters, we have a lot of passionate people on both sides who support our party's candidates and we want to make sure that we're not making it harder for them... to unify either.'

Bernie Sanders has accused the national party of stacking the deck against him at the convention, and many of his supporters say they will not vote for Hillary Clinton in November if she's the Democratic nominee

Wasserman Schulz brought up 2008, when Clinton faced off against Barack Obama, as an example of her party's historic ability to come together after a bloody primary.

'The contest was actually closer in terms of the votes that each candidate had earned and the delegates they had earned,' she said, 'and it was much more divisive in terms of tone.'

She said, 'Ultimately we easily came together, there were some people that were resistant, and we have a process in place that made the majority of them comfortable, and we were able to elect Barack Obama.'

Sanders is upset with Wasserman Schultz and the DNC for appointing just three of his supporters to 75 slots on convention committees that will determine the rules and platform.

He last week sent a letter to the DNC that said, 'If we are to have a unified party in the fall, no matter who wins the nomination, we cannot have a Democratic National Convention in which the views of millions of people who participated in the Democratic nominating process are unrepresented in the committee membership.

'That sends the very real message that the Democratic Party is not open to the millions of new people that our campaign has brought into the political process, does not want to hear new voices and is unwilling to respect the broader base of people that this party needs to win over in November and beyond.'

His campaign said in a statement that if the slots are not 'fairly allotted one result could be floor fights.'

'If the process is set up to produce an unfair, one-sided result, we are prepared to mobilize our delegates to force as many votes as necessary to amend the platform and rules on the floor of the convention,' Sanders warned in his letter.

Clinton is the favorite to win the Democratic nomination as she leads in both votes and delegates. Sanders could play the spoiler for her in November by refusing to send his supporters her way over differences with the Democratic Party, though

The DNC has denied the charges, and Schultz today argued the Democratic presidential candidate has a 'fundamental misunderstanding' of how the committee appointment process for the convention works.

Each of the three standing committees has 180 members, she said. The DNC has the power to select 25 each. The rest are allotted proportionally to the campaigns based on their vote totals.

She said she did not understand how that could 'by anyone's definition...be perceived as a committee being stacked.'

'So no, I don't think that Senator Sanders' concern is valid or warranted, and the rules already cover that the candidates will proportionally earn the representation based on a statewide vote,' she said. 'So no, that is not a valid concern.'

Clinton is the favorite to win the Democratic nomination as she leads in both votes and delegates. Sanders is seeking to make a comeback in the race by taking her by surprise in New Jersey and California on June 7.

His pathway to victory was already narrow and took another hit today when his California state director quit over differences with the campaign in terms of strategy.

The progressive senator's last chance to impact the race will come at the convention, when he and his supporters put their energies toward shaping the party platform.

He'll also have a choice, as Clinton did in 2008, of giving a speech that brings his supporters into the Democratic Party fold and directs them to his former opponent's corner.

Sanders has said he'll get behind Clinton if she beats him but has not detailed the extent of that support.

His fight with the DNC over committee assignments is unlikely to be his last attempt at leverage.