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The three Democratic super delegates who endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders were some of the last to remain uncommitted in Sanders' home state. | AP Photo Sanders picks up three super delegates in Vermont

Sen. Bernie Sanders picked up a trio of super delegates in his home state of Vermont on Tuesday.

Vermont Democratic party chairwoman Dottie Deans, Democratic Party vice chairman Tim Jerman, and Vermont Secretary of State Jim Condos endorsed Sanders, the campaign confirmed.

Both Jerman and Condos said they wanted to throw their support behind whoever did best in the Vermont Democratic primary on March 1. Sanders won the primary with 86 percent of the vote to Clinton with just below 14 percent. Condos said both the Sanders and Clinton campaigns had been encouraging him to endorse since the beginning of the year.

"Actually both sides had talked to me, I would say back before the first of the year," Condos told POLITICO Tuesday afternoon. "They understood where I was."

The three Democratic super delegates were some of the last to remain uncommitted in Sanders' home state. Most of the big-name Democrats in the state, like former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin and Sen. Patrick Leahy, have endorsed Hillary Clinton.

While the endorsements are helpful for Sanders, Clinton has a huge lead in super delegates, 461 to Sanders' 22, after the three he picked up on Tuesday.