Jane Sanders, the wife of Sen. Bernie Sanders, argued Friday that her husband would have had a better chance than Hillary Clinton of beating President-elect Donald Trump in Tuesday's election.

Sanders told CNN in an interview Friday afternoon that the Vermont senator would "absolutely" have had a better chance to beat the GOP nominee, pointing to some of the states that Sanders won in the primary contest against Clinton that Trump took home on Tuesday.

"Absolutely. But it doesn't matter, the election is over," Sanders told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "What he has to do now is use his influence and work with people across this country to affect the change that they would have voted for had he been on the ticket and they did vote for in the primary despite all the irregularities.

"It's not about us," she added.

Blitzer asked the former presidential candidate the same question on Thursday, which he declined to answer, simply saying that it's not worth looking back at what happened.

"What good does it do now?" Sanders said.

Sanders is looking ahead to the new Congress and the future of the Democratic National Committee, having announced his support for Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison for the post.