Taking a cue from baseball great Yogi Berra, Jane Sanders said of her husband’s campaign: “It’s not over until it’s over.”
In an interview Monday evening with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, the senior Sanders campaign adviser said, “neither Hillary nor Bernie will get the requisite number of pledged delegates to be able to wrap the nomination before the convention, so we go the convention.”
“The fact is, it’s not over until it’s over,” she said, a nod to Berra’s famous “Yogi-ism” in 1973 “it ain’t over ’til it’s over,” which he said before his baseball team, the New York Mets, came back from a poor start to win a division title and earn an appearance at the World Series, where they lost to the Oakland Athletics.
Jane Sanders echoed her husband’s defiant tone from the day before at a press conference in Washington, D.C.
“It is virtually impossible for secretary Clinton to reach the majority of convention delegates by June 14 with pledged delegates alone. She will need superdelegates to take her over the top at the convention in Philadelphia. In other words, the convention will be a contested contest,” the Vermont senator told reporters Sunday.
Sanders trails former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by a large margin, going into the final stretch of the primary season. According to the latest tally, Sanders has 1,357 delegates to Clinton’s 2,165. However, Sanders hope to peel away some of Clinton’s trove of 520 unpledged superdelegates. Sanders has 39 superdelegates.
“Everywhere we go, people, ‘say please keep fighting for us, please you’re our voice. Don’t give up,'” Jane Sanders said. “We owe it to the people that have been part of this movement to take it all the way to the end and to work really hard. Everybody knows anything can happen in politics.”
Sanders has been campaigning in Indiania, where he hopes a victory in Tuesday’s primary will build momentum for the final month and a half of the primary season.
