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Bernie Sanders picked up the support of Jean Lemire Dahlman, a superdelegate from Montana. | Getty Sanders adds another superdelegate

The Democratic presidential race is effectively over, but Bernie Sanders picked up another superdelegate over the weekend.

Jean Lemire Dahlman, a Montana Democratic National Committeewoman, plans to support Sanders as a superdelegate at the Democratic National Convention this summer in Philadelphia, both the Sanders campaign and Montana Democratic Party confirmed on Monday.

Dahlman had been waiting until Montana's June 7 primary to pick a candidate. Sanders defeated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton 51 percent to 44 percent in the Montana primary.

Dahlman is the only one of six Montana superdelegates to back a candidate. The others, including Gov. Steve Bullock and Sen. Jon Tester, have opted to stay neutral.

Dahlman's support won't make a huge difference. Clinton has beaten Sanders to the required number of delegates needed to clinch the nomination. According to the Associated Press delegate tracker, Clinton has a total of 2,784 delegates overall — a figure which includes 581 superdelegates — while Sanders has 48 superdelegates among his total of 1,877 delegates.

Sanders has argued that the more delegates and superdelegates he gets going forward, the stronger his hand at the convention.

"What we have got to determine between now and the Democratic convention, and by the way Chuck, we're going to have well over 1,900 delegates at that convention, is what kind of platform and what kind of agenda there will be if Secretary Clinton gets elected, if she wins the election," Sanders said during an interview with Meet the Press's Chuck Todd on Sunday.