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What the Teamsters Non-Endorsement Means
Labor Hedges on Harris Win
Kamala Harris was an easy pick for the United Auto Workers endorsement. Trump never had a chance at it. Harris has significant support among Labor Households.
Along comes the Teamsters Union and their dynamics is a little unlike the bulk of labor. Early sampeling of rank and file members seemed to break in favor of Trump. This was not at all surprising to me.
Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien had hinted that the union might decline to endorse. I suspect that the Teamsters leadership was not hering exactly what they wanted from Trump on one hand, but the rank and file prefered him. Harris likely has the bulk of Labor’s support elsewhere. The Teamsters see the Harris momentum and a faltering Trump campaign and simply did not want to clinmb on board a Trump campaign that could not cross the finish line, in spite of what the rank and file might want. Come the day after election, they don’t want to be reminded by a president elect Harris that they were with Trump.
The union has 1.3 million members. That said, gove the disparity between the two genders in this election, it is very easy to see many Teamster family where the wife may vote one way and the husband the other. Woman’s issues are forfront in this campaign. The Freedom to Choose is a front and center issue in the post Row world.
This has to be a big dissapointment to the Trump Campaign, but they have has a lot pf the recently.
