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Hillary Clinton's campaign press secretary Brian Fallon said New York is a must-win for Sen. Bernie Sanders, and even with a win there, the Vermont senator would only delay the inevitable. | AP Photo Clinton campaign: New York is a must-win for Sanders

The morning after a resounding defeat in Wisconsin, Hillary Clinton's campaign emphatically rejected the notion that a Bernie Sanders victory in the April 19 New York primary would reset the race or lead to an open convention.

“No, I don’t think that’s true at all," campaign press secretary Brian Fallon said in an interview with MSNBC on Wednesday when asked about the prospect of Sanders' momentum preventing a clear-cut nominee before the Democratic National Convention.

For Sanders, Fallon said, New York is a "must-win," but even with a victory, "that only prolongs the contest, it doesn’t put him on the trajectory to overtake us in our pledged delegate lead."

"If you look at the reality this morning, even after his win last night, for which we congratulate him, he’s still down by over 200 delegates. And even if he repeats this trick in New York in terms of the margin — look at the delegate yield that he took away last night," Fallon continued. "It’s only a 10, right now it’s a 10-person delegate yield, doesn’t significantly erode our delegate lead. He needs to win by 60 percent or so in not just New York but in Pennsylvania, California and New Jersey."

The delegate math "only gets tougher for him" after Wisconsin, Fallon said, remarking that very few of the states still left to vote are caucuses, and all but three of the 16 remaining primaries are closed.

Sanders has normally performed poorly in states with closed primaries, while he has done much better in places where voters to not have to be registered as Democrats.

"We consistently outperform him when Democrats vote, when more diverse states vote," Fallon concluded. "That’s why we have a lead of over 10 million people in the popular vote.”

Fallon's comments as the Sanders campaign claims momentum after winning Wisconsin, the Vermont senator's seventh victory in the last eight contests. On Tuesday night, Sanders' campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, even warned Clinton not to "destroy the Democratic Party to satisfy the secretary's ambitions to become president of the United States," urging Democrats to unify behind the insurgent senator.

"Let's have a tough debate, let's talk about the issues," Weaver said on CNN. "There are sharp contrasts about the issues but let's not denigrate other people's supporters and tear the party apart."