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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (left) and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont (right) are both running for the 2016 Democratic nomination for president.

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TRENTON -- New Jersey's primary election Tuesday could be key in deciding the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

Clinton, the U.S. secretary of state, is trying to gather the final delegates she needs to secure the party's nod over Sanders, the U.S. senator from Vermont.

Clinton has 2,312 of the 2,383 delegates required heading into the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in July. Sanders has 1,545. Those figures include 544 super delegates for Clinton and 45 for Sanders.

Both FiveThirtyEight and the New York Times are predicting Clinton will clinch the party's nod over Sanders in the Garden State, where 142 delegates are up for grabs.

Clinton has already begun focusing on presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump in speeches. But Sanders has vowed to fight for every last vote.

Still, if Clinton wins New Jersey, Sanders' only hope for the nomination would then be to convince enough superdelegates to abandon Clinton at the convention and vote for him. Experts say that's unlikely.

Both candidates have made multiple stops in New Jersey over the last month.

Sanders, the self-proclaimed Democratic socialist who draws thousands of supporters to his rallies, held events in Piscataway and Atlantic City.

Clinton's campaign, meanwhile, has been blanketing the Garden State. She appeared in Camden County last month and Newark on Wednesday -- the latter alongside Jon Bon Jovi and U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.). Plus, her husband, former President Bill Clinton, and her daughter Chelsea Clinton, have appeared across the state to stump for her.

So, who are you supporting Tuesday in New Jersey's primary: Clinton or Sanders? Vote in the informal, unscientific poll below.

Brent Johnson may be reached at bjohnson@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @johnsb01. Find NJ.com Politics on Facebook.