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WASHINGTON (NewsNation) — The International Brotherhood of Teamsters volition not contented an endorsement successful the statesmanlike predetermination for the archetypal clip since 1996 and for lone the 3rd clip since 1960.
Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien said, “Neither large campaigner was capable to marque superior commitments to our national to guarantee the interests of moving radical are ever enactment earlier Big Business.
“We sought commitments from some Trump and Harris not to interfere successful captious national campaigns oregon halfway Teamsters industries — and to grant our members’ close to onslaught — but were incapable to unafraid those pledges,” O’Brien said.
The Teamsters endorsed President Biden during the 2020 predetermination and has consistently supported Democratic statesmanlike nominees successful caller predetermination cycles.
Harris run spokesperson Lauren Hitt noted successful an emailed connection that much than 3 twelve retired Teamsters spoke past period successful Chicago astatine the Democratic National Convention, having endorsed Harris. Their pensions were saved done the 2021 transition of the Butch Lewis Act that President Joe Biden and Harris championed.
“While Donald Trump says striking workers should beryllium fired, Vice President Harris has virtually walked the picket enactment and stood beardown with organized labour for her full career,” Hitt said. “The Vice President’s beardown national grounds is wherefore Teamsters locals crossed the state person already endorsed her — alongside the overwhelming bulk of organized labor.”
The Teamsters said Wednesday that interior polling of members showed Trump with an vantage implicit Harris, a information that the Republican's run instantly seized upon by sending retired an email that said the “rank-and-file of the Teamsters Union supports Donald Trump for President.”
Trump called the Teamsters’ determination not to endorse “a large honor.”
“It’s a large honor," helium said. “They’re not going to endorse the Democrats. That’s a large thing.”
NewsNation affiliate The Hill and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
