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"If I have more popular votes and more delegates, then I think it's pretty clear that — the people who turned out and voted — chose me to be the nominee," Hillary Clinton said. | AP Photo Clinton: I don't understand Sanders' superdelegate strategy

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday expressed skepticism about suggestions by the Sanders campaign that the Vermont senator can flip superdelegates to support him at the convention, even if he’s behind in the number of pledged delegates.

Clinton, who appeared in a town hall with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that will air Wednesday night, said she doesn’t “understand the argument.”

“Sanders' campaign this week has suggested that if heading into that convention, he is behind in the pledged delegates, and even if he's behind in the popular vote, that he will still try to win the nomination at that convention by persuading superdelegates to switch their allegiance to him at that point. Is that a legitimate, reasonable, ethical way to try to get the nomination?” Maddow asked, according to a pre-released transcript.

“Well, I don't understand the argument," Clinton said. "If I have more popular votes and more delegates, then I think it's pretty clear that — the people who turned out and voted — chose me to be the nominee."

The former secretary of state added that when the tables were turned in 2008, she wasn’t the one with the most pledged delegates and she didn’t fight the will of the people.

“I've been on the other side of this equation. I got slightly more in the popular vote in 2008, but not in the delegates. And so from my perspective, you know, this is about delegates. You have to have the right number of delegates to get the nomination,” Clinton said.

She predicted that she would be the Democratic nominee and made a plea for Sanders and his supporters to rally behind her the way she had behind Democratic nominee Barack Obama in 2008.

“I'm ahead. I'm ahead by a significant number. I believe I'm going to continue to add to that number. And I believe that I will be the Democratic nominee. And I certainly hope that Sen. Sanders and his supporters will join ranks, the way that I did — with President Obama,” she said.

Superdelegates are not officially pledged to a candidate and can switch their allegiances if they want. Currently Clinton has 1,712 delegates — that number includes 469 superdelegates — and Sanders has 1,011 delegates, 31 of whom are superdelegates.