Chuck Schumer: “The Tea Party wouldn't let [the immigration bill] pass…”

“I wrote a bipartisan immigration bill that would bring a path to citizenship for 11 million people, with John McCain hardly a big liberal, but The Tea Party wouldn't let [the immigration bill] pass because they were anti-immigrant. anti immigrant. So Trump, the things he says, he may say them a little more flamboyantly, but it resonates with that hard right group that votes in the primaries.” (07:46–07:51)

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