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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.

  • tal@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
    451·
    2 months ago

    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
      541·
      2 months ago

      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??

    • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
      18·
      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
      133·
      2 months ago

      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
        61·
        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).