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AP Photo Sanders campaign's messaging is all over the place

Just hours before polls closed in the five "Acela corridor" primary states on Tuesday, members of Bernie Sanders' inner circle were making pretty different statements on the direction of the campaign.

Polling has shown former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with large leads in two of the five states —Pennsylvania and Maryland— and a strong chance to do well in Connecticut, Delaware, and Rhode Island, further extending her delegate and total vote count lead.

That's prompted Sanders chief strategist Tad Devine and Jane Sanders to give contrasting statements on what's next for the campaign (although both stressed that Sanders would stay in the race). The difference was when there would be a reassessment of the campaign's path.

"If we are sitting here and there’s no sort of mathematical way to do it, we will be upfront about that," Devine said, according to The New York Times. "If we have a really good day, we are going to continue to talk about winning most of the pledged delegates because we will be on a path toward it. If we don’t get enough today to make it clear that we can do it by the end, it’s going to be hard to talk about it. That’s not going to be a credible path. Instead, we will talk about what we intend to do between now and the end and how we can get there."

Asked about Devine's comments during an interview with MSNBC, Jane Sanders said there wouldn't be some kind of big reassessment coming up.

"No, no. We assess on an everyday basis," Jane Sanders said on MSNBC. "Even if he had a string of wins, like eight in a row or he's won states by landslide victories, nobody in the media and certainly not The New York Times has ever said he has a chance to win. That's not right and it's kind of crazy that you don't understand that what he's offering and is resonating among young people is an alternative future. We are talking about transforming this country, transforming America."

Jane Sanders went on to say that "since Iowa we have been asked at every election 'are you getting out now?' No, the answer is no. We're in until the convention. And after the convention if Bernie is the candidate or if Bernie isn't the candidate the political revolution, trying to transform this country, will go forward.'"

It isn't the first time Sanders' aides haven't seemed on the same page. After Sanders suffered a big loss in New York last week, campaign manager Jeff Weaver said the Vermont senator was planning to go all the way to the convention and fight to flip superdelegates.

Devine, however, was less bullish during an interview with the Associated Press, saying the campaign would “sit back and assess where we are” after the next round of primaries.