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Jane Sanders listens as her husband speaks during a campaign rally in Erie, Pa. on April 19. | AP Photo Jane Sanders: We're not trying to flip superdelegates

Bernie Sanders' campaign is not trying to flip superdelegates who are already decided in favor of Hillary Clinton, Jane Sanders said Friday, remarking that if her husband is able to draw closer or even top the former secretary of state in the pledged delegate count, they will come naturally.

"At the end, you know, we're not calling superdelegates and saying will you switch your vote?" Sanders said in an interview with CNN's "New Day."

POLITICO has reported that Sanders has personally called some undecided superdelegates to try to bring them on his side.

Jane Sanders, who is one of her husband's closest political advisers, addressed the campaign's thinking that a lot of Clinton's superdelegates are elected officials who swore their allegiance to her before Sanders entered the race last April.

"And we think they're smart people and they're going to see at the end if he has the momentum, if he has got the delegates neck and neck, even above Secretary Clinton and that's possible, then they will be looking at the general election and saying who is the stronger candidate against the Republican nominee," Sanders continued, referring to recent polls that showed the Vermont senator performing better against all Republican candidates than Clinton.

In addition, Sanders remarked upon a "crazy year" in politics. "Anything can happen in politics, and the convention is after the Republican convention. I don't know what's going to happen there," she said.

As far as the leading Republican candidate saying that Clinton is playing the "woman card," Sanders called it "ridiculous."

"Is he playing the man card?" she asked of Donald Trump. "He certainly seems to be, in the attitude that men are gruff ... he's being so sexist, and he wouldn't accept it if someone did that to him."