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A number of Democrats responded in a single day to information that the Teamsters, beneath Common President Sean O’Brien, determined towards issuing a presidential endorsement.
“Sadly, neither main candidate was in a position to make severe commitments to our union to make sure the pursuits of working persons are all the time put earlier than huge enterprise,” O’Brien stated in a press release.
Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass. who, like O’Brien, hails from the Boston space, known as former President Donald Trump the “most anti-labor president we now have ever had.”
“It’s clear that these employees are misinformed or uninformed about Trump’s file on labor,” McGovern informed the Washington Occasions. “His allegiance isn’t towards working individuals.”
McGovern, the highest Democrat on the Home Guidelines Committee, stated it’s apparent that Trump helps “wealthy individuals” over the working class.
The Teamsters haven’t made a non-endorsement because the 1996 contest between former President Invoice Clinton and Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan. Their final GOP endorsement went to former President George H.W. Bush over then-Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis in 1988.
In the meantime, Rep. Steven Horsford, D-Nev., tweeted that Harris had forged the tie-breaking Senate vote to “defend Teamsters pensions.”
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Home Guidelines Committee rating member James McGovern of Massachusetts
Horsford shared that Nevada’s Teamsters councils had bucked the nationwide group and independently endorsed Harris.
“She’s preventing for us,” Horsford stated.
Sen. Catherine Cortez-Masto, D-Nev., echoed Horsford, saying the Silver State’s Teamsters “know that Kamala Harris is a fighter for our union employees.”
“I discovered it from my father who was a Teamster in Las Vegas: once we stand collectively, we win,” Cortez-Masto stated.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., the previous Home speaker, in the meantime, known as the Teamsters’ resolution “disappointing.”
“Donald Trump refused to assist a pension invoice for Teamsters. It was Biden-Harris and Democrats who saved Teamsters pensions within the Butch Lewis Act of our American Rescue Plan — with out one Republican vote,” she stated on X, previously Twitter.
Trump, nonetheless, known as the non-endorsement of Harris a “nice honor” for him.
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Rep. Steven Horsford, D-Nev., speaks with President Joe Biden. (Getty Photos)
“They’re not going to endorse the Democrats. That’s an enormous factor,” Trump stated whereas campaigning in New York Metropolis. The GOP nominee added that the inner Teamsters vote confirmed about 60% of nationwide membership assist his bid.
A number one progressive in Congress, Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington, known as the non-endorsement “unlucky” whereas including that the Evergreen State’s sub-council nonetheless helps Harris.
“I feel you’re going to see extra of that throughout the nation,” she informed the Occasions.
In a extra direct shot at O’Brien, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., claimed the nationwide chief has been “boosting Republicans all 12 months whereas supporting anti-worker, anti-choice Senate candidates.”
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O’Brien has reportedly reached out to some Republican lawmakers, like Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Mo. And JD Vance, R-Ohio, per the BBC, however it was the Sheet Steel, Air, Rail & Transportation union that just lately gave the conservatives their endorsement.
Two U.S. Senate candidates whom the union did endorse, nonetheless, are Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz.
A spokesman for Harris’ marketing campaign stated in a press release reported by a number of shops that Trump believes putting employees needs to be fired, whereas Harris “actually walked the picket line.”
“The Vice President’s sturdy union file is why Teamsters locals throughout the nation have already endorsed her — alongside the overwhelming majority of organized labor,” Lauren Hitt stated.
In that regard, a council representing 35,000 Teamsters in the important thing swing state of Pennsylvania ignored O’Brien’s non-endorsement and threw their weight behind Harris.
The board of Teamsters Joint Council 40, overlaying Pittsburgh, Erie, State Faculty and Washington, held a separate vote, the place they unanimously chosen Harris.
“She is the very best for our locals and greatest for our unions,” council president Carl Bailey informed the Pittsburgh Tribune-Overview.
O’Brien has additionally not been afraid to tussle with Republicans, as he and Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., almost got here to blows throughout a 2023 listening to during which Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., needed to intervene as Mullin rose from his chair — after the lads informed one another to “stand your butt up.”
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