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The International Brotherhood of Teamsters will not issue an endorsement in the presidential election for the first time since 1996, and for only the second time since 1960.

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[–] tal 47 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

While 44.3 percent of union members polled between April 9 and July 3 backed Biden compared to 36.3 percent for Trump, polling in the wake of the Republican and Democratic Party conventions found the Teamsters members support Trump over Harris.

In a union-commissioned survey conducted by an independent third party between July 24 and Sept. 15, 59.6 percent of Teamsters members voted to endorse Trump, compared to 34 percent for Harris.

Teamsters members seem to have been dramatically more supportive of Biden than they are of Harris. Hmm.

Don't know if election models, like Five Thirty Eight's or similar, take endorsements as an input, whether that may affect their projection.

[–] ChocoboRocket@lemmy.world 53 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Damn, if I didn't know any better, the teamsters union hate the idea of being led by a woman.

Unless Kamala has a teamsters specific, anti-union agenda completely unique from Joe Biden I'm not aware of?

I'd love to be proven wrong, but Trump has only gotten worse and Kamala is significantly better than Biden - so what's up??

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)
  1. She
  2. Is a non-white
  3. Democrat.

Take your pick

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

I think it also hurts that she’s not from the labor wing of the democrats unlike Biden.

[–] protist@mander.xyz 18 points 2 months ago

Harris's weakness with non-college educated white men is well studied and discussed in the polling universe. She does way better than Biden though with young people, women, and all non-white groups

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The lack of an endorsement is a big blow to Trump, who invited O’Brien to be the first Teamsters leader in the union’s 121-year history to speak at the Republican National Convention in July.

Sounds like O'Brien knows that he went a step too far in assuming a Trump win was inevitable and kissing the diaper.

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

Listen to his speech. He doesn't kiss up he goes up at the RNC and talks about the real needs of the working class (against everything the modern GOP does).