The Trump campaign said Teamsters members are “loud and clear” in their support of former President Donald Trump and that polls show they overwhelmingly support him over Vice President Kamala Harris.
“While the Teamsters Executive Committee has not issued a formal endorsement, hard-working Teamsters members have been vocal in their desire to see President Trump return to the White House!” Trump campaign spokeswoman Caroline Leavitt said in an email.
“These hardworking men and women are the backbone of America, and President Trump will vigorously defend them when he returns to the White House,” she added.
Leavitt touted the rank-and-file support of his members on Wednesday, hours after the Teamsters union released a poll showing its members overwhelmingly support Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris.
The union's latest polling data, collected independently by Lake Research Partners from Sept. 9 to 15, shows that its members support the former president over Harris by 58 percent to 31 percent.
Despite their overwhelming support for Trump, the union chose not to endorse him this year.
“The Teamsters thank all of the candidates for meeting face-to-face with our members during this unprecedented roundtable discussion,” union President Sean O'Brien said in a statement.
“Unfortunately, neither major candidate was able to make a serious commitment to our unions to ensure that workers' interests always come first over big business,” he added.
While Trump has not received a formal endorsement, Harris' lack of one is disastrous because the Teamsters have supported Democratic presidential candidates in every election since 1996. Then-President Bill Clinton lost the Teamsters' support that year with the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Have In 1992, it announced its support. In 1996, the union did not endorse any candidate.
While the disapproval was for specific policies, this year's announcement resembles the union's rejection of 1988 Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis.
Instead, the carriage drivers Approved Republican presidential candidate George H.W. Bush.
Bush defeated Dukakis in the general election. Winner He won 426 electoral votes from 41 states, while Dukakis only won nine.
