Sanders mum on contesting Clinton nomination

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Sunday dodged a question about whether he would contest front-runner Hillary Clinton’s presidential nomination if she gets the required delegates before the Democratic convention.

{mosads}”Our plan right now is to win this thing, and again, I think we’re looking pretty good in New York, in Pennsylvania, in California, in Oregon,” Sanders said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “I think we have a real shot to end up with more delegates.”

Host John Dickerson asked the Vermont senator if he’d consider contesting a Clinton nomination like Ted Kennedy’s challenge to Jimmy Carter in 1980, claiming he “had a movement,” although he didn’t have the majority of delegates to “get a message across.”

The Sanders camp said last week that if Clinton fails to reach a majority with pledged delegates ahead of the convention, he will “100 percent, absolutely” challenge her for the nomination.

“The way the math is right now, it is very, very unlikely that either candidate will arrive at the convention with enough pledged delegates to win the nomination,” Sanders’s campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, said in an interview with ABC News.