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As Super Tuesday approaches, ABC-7 takes a look at which candidates are spending time in El Paso

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The race is on for your vote. Several Democratic Presidential candidates are hitting the campaign trail in hopes of becoming the next President of the United States.

Several states, including Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, already held their primary elections. Bernie Sanders came out as the winner in two of the four states.

Texas' election, is a few days away. Ahead of Super Tuesday, several Presidential Candidates are trying to appeal to El Paso voters.

Senator Bernie Sanders made a stop in El Paso for his rally last Saturday.

"We can win the Texas primary, we can win the Democratic nomination, we can defeat Donald Trump and we can transform this country, let's do it," Sanders said on stage.

ABC-7 was the only English-language station to speak with Sanders one-on-one.

With immigration being the top issue in Texas, ABC-7's Julio Cesar-Chavez asked how he would handle the migrant crisis at our border.

"What we will do is hire hundreds more administrative judges so that we do not continue to have the incredible backlog that we have right now," Sanders said.

At the end of January, former New York Mayor and billionaire Mike Bloomberg kicked off the El Paso Adelante part of his campaign: The Path Forward.

"I'm running to defeat Donad Trump and put the united back in the Unites States of America," Bloomberg said.

Bloomberg explained his Latino-focused policies like immigration, saying he would create a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants already in the U.S.

Bloomberg has been the only candidate to open a campaign office in El Paso and has spent $1.9 million of his own money on television ads in the El Paso market, according to El Paso Matters.

"You have to advertise and I'm not working at this for years where everybody else has been. I've been working for only a couple months," said Bloomberg.

Presidential candidate Tom Steyer spending $30,000 here in El Paso and Sanders spending $170,000, also according to El Paso Matters.

ABC-7's Mauricio Casillas spoke one-on-one with Styer in a satellite interview.

Mayor Pete Buttigieg made an effort to mobilize El Paso voters.

Saturday, dozens of volunteers set up shop at Starbucks and made calls to hundreds of El Pasoans .

Some even went door to door, hoping to sway the vote in Buttigieg's direction.

Former Vice President Joe Biden sent his sister to El Paso for an interview Sunday.

"I think that the character of the country is on the ballot, not just Joe's character, but your character and the character of America," said Valeria Biden Owens, Biden's sister.

Several candidates have received endorsements from local and states leaders.

Mike Bloomberg: State Rep. Cesar Blanco, State Rep. Arthur Fierro, El Paso County Commissioner Carlos Leon, , Former El Paso Mayor John Cook, El Paso County Sheriff Richard Wiles, El Paso City Council Members Peter Svarsbein and Henry Rivera, among several others.

Joe Biden: Congressional Black Caucus members Eddie Bernice Johnson, Marc Veasey and Colin Allred, Congressional Hispanic Caucus members Sylvia Garcia, Filemon Vela and Vicente Gonzalez, Former HUD Secretary and Mayor of San Antonio Henry Cisneros.

Elizabeth Warren: Stated Reps. Mary Gonzalez, Joe Moody, Lina Ortega

You can vote during Texas' primary this coming Super Tuesday.

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Shelby Montgomery

Las Cruces native Shelby Montgomery is an ABC-7 reporter who also co-anchors Good Morning El Paso weekends.

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