BEND — As former President Bill Clinton was winding up a two-day trip to four Oregon cities to campaign for his wife Hillary, her campaign managers announced Monday that the candidate herself would visit Oregon Saturday in her pursuit of the Democratic presidential nomination.

Her campaign headquarters said she would visit Portland and Eugene, but released no other details.

In Bend and in earlier appearances in Portland, Salem and Medford, Bill Clinton stressed that Hillary Clinton would not bend to pressures to drop out of the race and concede the nomination to Barack Obama. Some in the party fear that if she stays in, the party will arrive at its convention in August badly divided and more vulnerable to the apparent Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain.

Bend was Bill Clinton’s last stop, where he spoke to about 2,500 people at Bend Senior High School in a part of Oregon that tends to vote Republican.

“This is an amazing race,” he said before launching into his stump speech. “You are going to have a say in it for the first time in 40 years, I guess. I don’t want to talk much about the politics of this race, but I will say this. Don’t you believe it when all those people in Washington say your votes don’t count and this race is over. If this race was over, they wouldn’t tell you that.

“Hillary believes this is a great thing. Every state ought to be able to vote. When it’s all done, we’ll know who the nominee should be. She trusts you to vote. She wants to know what you think. She thinks your vote should county as much as New Hampshire.”

Clinton pointed out local superdelegate Wayne Kinney, asking people if they know him to ask him to vote for Hillary Clinton.

“It’s just disgusting the way we’re fawning over these superdelegates,” Clinton joked. “I did offer to wash his car windows.”

Superdelegates are senior party members who can vote for whomever they chose, and in a close convention they could determine who is nominated.

If there is no winner on the first ballot, delegates are released from their obligations, which could result in a “brokered” convention, something the United States has not had since 1952.

The last time a candidate nominated at a brokered convention reached the White House was Franklin Roosevelt in 1932.

But Kinney did not show his hand. He told The Associated Press he remains uncommitted to a candidate.