Adorable young Clinton fan asks if a female president would make as much as a man

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It's never too early to start asking the tough questions.

Hillary Clinton held a town hall event in Las Vegas on Tuesday, and one young girl proved she's wise beyond her years when it comes to the gender wage gap when the presidential hopeful handed her the mic.

"Do you think when you are president you will be paid as much if you were a male?" the young Hillary supporter asked.

The adorable moment, which was captured by Bloomberg Business, was received well from the room of Clinton supporters: the young girl received cheers and a hug from the former secretary of state herself.

"This is one of the jobs where they have to pay you the same," Clinton responded. "But there are so many examples where that doesn't happen, where women doing the same job are not paid the same."

An April report from the nonprofit organization National Partnership for Families and Women showed that women, on average, make 78 cents for every dollar that men make.

One of Clinton's campaign promises is to close the gender pay gap, and she's been throwing shade at her GOP rivals on the campaign trail about how their policies would only exacerbate the pay disparities between men and women.

"So as president, I'm going to do everything I can to make sure that not just the president is paid the same," Clinton said at the town hall, "but that every woman in every job gets paid the same."

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