"Equal pay — we shouldn't be talking about it in 2016. It is almost embarrassing," Clinton said.
Clinton heard workers describe their struggles with employers, home foreclosure and low wages. Clinton said it was "way past time that we have a raise in the nationwide minimum wage" of $7.25 an hour and said the nation should support cities and states like New York and California "that are willing to put a higher floor under low-wage workers."
On Sunday, she'll also hold a public "get out the vote" rally in the University of Bridgeport's Harvey Hubbell Gymnasium, which anyone can attend. That event begins at 2:15 p.m., and doors open at 12:15. You can RSVP here.
Clinton was here on Thursday as well. She held a gun violence discussion at the Wilson-Gray YMCA in Hartford in front of a crowd of about 300. On stage she was joined by a panel of locals touched by gun violence, including two people whose loved ones were killed in the Sandy Hook tragedy: Erica Smegielski, wholost her mother Dawn Hochsprung, the principal of Sandy Hook Elementary; and Nelba Marquz-Green, whose daughter Ana Grace was one of the first-graders killed. There were also three other people who have been impacted by gun violence in Connecticut, including a former gang member, a high school teacher who created the anti-gun group Mothers Demand Action, and a woman whose son was killed.
Clinton is ahead in Connecticut polls--according to the latest Quinnipiac Poll, she has 51 percent of the Democratic primary votes, compared to Sanders' 42 percent.
While Clinton has been threatened in the race by Bernie Sanders' unexpected success, she is still far closer to cinching the number of delegates needed to win the Democratic nomination. She has 1,930 delegates compared to Sanders' 1,191. A Democrat needs 2,383 delegates to win the nomination, and there are still 1,644 available in the remaining states. She needs just 453 of those votes, or 27.55 percent of the remaining delegates.
In Connecticut there are 71 delegates up for grabs on the Democratic side. Of those, 36 are district delegates that are given proportionally to candidates based on how they do in each district. Another 19 are given proportionally based on the results of the statewide election. Of the remaining delegates--superdelegates, as they're called--15 have pledged their votes to Clinton, and one remains undecided.
