NEW HAVEN – Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton campaigned in New Haven on Saturday. At a round-table event, she discussed ways to raise wages, promot...





NEW HAVEN - Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton campaigned in New Haven on Saturday. At a round-table event, she discussed ways to raise wages, promote early childhood education and reduce the pay gap between men and women with some of New Haven's working families.

"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.