Schumer: I work out with Sessions, but I won’t vote for him

Published January 4, 2017 8:49pm ET



Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., signaled he would likely vote against Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., for attorney general over his support for placing more constraints on immigration and his opposition to some elements of the most recent Voting Rights Act renewal.

“As one of the leaders of immigration reform, I go to the gym and we’re on the bikes together with Sen. Sessions, we’re very friendly,” Schumer told reporters Wednesday. “But he has been more anti-immigration than just about any other single lawmaker I can think of.”

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