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AP Photo Sanders campaign manager: There won't be violence in Philadelphia

Bernie Sanders' campaign manager unequivocally said on Tuesday that there would be no violence or serious conflict at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in July, while also describing the chaos at last Saturday’s Nevada Democratic convention as an "aberration."

"There's not going to be any violence in Philadelphia, Wolf, I guarantee that," Jeff Weaver said in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "We hope for a fair and orderly convention. I think whoever the ultimate nominee is we want to unify the party on the back of the convention so we can all go out and defeat Donald Trump in the fall."

Weaver's comments come in the wake of a tumultuous state convention in Las Vegas over the weekend which Sanders supporters sought to derail the event out of frustration over the delegate allocation process. Some participants at the event focused their ire on Nevada Democratic Party Chairwoman Roberta Lange, posting her phone number online, which resulted in a flood of death threats.

"What happened in Nevada, I think, is an aberration in large part driven by the way that that party handled itself," Weaver continued. "We've been involved in conventions all across this country, in states from one end of the country to the other. Nothing like this has happened and so this is really anomalous, but this is really tied to what happened in Nevada itself."