Teamsters President Sean O’Brien stunned Tucker Carlson when he revealed Kamala Harris told his own union’s vice president: ‘I’m gonna win, with you or without you.’
The often combative union boss declined to endorse Harris or Donald Trump in November. He pointed out that he’d been given a platform at the Republican convention, but none at the Democrat convention.
O’Brien pulled many of the Democrat skeletons out of the closet in the interview with Carlson, describing an ‘arrogant’ Democrat nominee pushing them to step in line.
He spoke about a meeting his lieutenant Joan Corey had with Harris in June, before Biden dropped out of the race.
After she introduced herself and said she was with the Teamsters, Harris became demanding.
‘Teamsters? You better get on board. You better get on board. Better get on board soon,’ the candidate had told the union.
Later on O’Brien discussed a meeting his union leadership had with then-nominee Harris where she was refusing to answer certain questions they asked of every candidate.
‘Her declaration on the way out was: I’m gonna win, with you or without you.’
Teamsters President Sean O’Brien stunned Tucker Carlson when he revealed Kamala Harris told his own union’s vice president: ‘I’m gonna win, with you or without you’
O’Brien pulled many of the Democrat skeletons out of the closet in the interview with Carlson, mainly focusing on what he felt was the Democrat nominee’s arrogance
An incredulous Carlson at one point joked: ‘Damn. I thought I was arrogant. That’s really arrogant.’
O’Brien tried to speak with Marty Walsh, Biden’s former Secretary of Labor and now the head of the National Hockey League Players’ Association, and was similarly befuddled.
‘Let me ask you a question, Marty. Excuse my French. Who does this f***ing lady think she is?’
He also confirmed what many have believed of Joe Biden when he met with him, long after he’d initially asked and long after Trump had committed to the same process.
‘We had Biden in there and you could just clearly tell he was, not the man he was. It was kinda sad.’
He’d said Biden was good for the labor movement and saw him personally as: ‘A nice older man, a nice older gentleman.’
However, it was clear to O’Brien in his meetings with the president that he’d lost a step.
‘What they were doing to him, the Democratic Party, kinda looked like elderly abuse to me.’
An incredulous Carlson at one point joked: ‘Damn. I thought I was arrogant. That’s really arrogant’
O’Brien tried to speak with Marty Walsh, Biden’s former Secretary of Labor and now the head of the National Hockey League Players’ Association, and was similarly befuddled
He said his union gave 16 questions to each candidate and Biden would only answer five, whereas Trump and even the likes of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Cornel West would answer all 16.
O’Brien said that Harris only answered four before making her shocking and eventually incorrect declaration that she would win.
The Teamsters President has been a thorn in the side of the Democrats, who have usually counted on labor unions to roll over and endorse regardless of circumstance in national and local elections.
In October, O’Brien described himself to podcaster Theo Von as a Democrat but believes the party may no longer be the right one to represent the working class.
‘I’m a Democrat but they have f***** us over for the last 40 years and for once we’re standing up as a union saying what the f*** have you done for us?’ O’Brien said in scathing remarks.
‘I’m getting attacked from the left you know and since I’ve been in office over two and a half years we’ve given the Democratic machine $15.7 million.
‘We’ve given Republicans about $340,000 truth be told, so it’s like you know people say the Democratic party is the party of working people, but they’re actually bought and paid for by big tech,’ O’Brien explained.
‘Now you’ve got the Republicans who are now saying “Hey we want to be the working class party!” and okay you’ve got a great opportunity right now to do that.
Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien is seen meeting with President Joe Biden in April 2022. The union membership was a fan of Biden but appears to be less keen on Harris
Sean O’Brien is seen on stage on the first day of the Republican National Convention in July. He was not invited to speak at the Democrat convention
‘As for the Democrats, if 60 percent of our members aren’t supporting you the f*****g system is broken and you need to fix it. Stop pointing fingers at the Teamsters Union and look in the mirror,’ he said bluntly.
Earlier in the podcast O’Brien explained how he believed the sands might be shifting with the GOP now vying to be the party to represent workers.
‘It’s funny you know, before you always had Democrats fighting for working people and now we kind of see a switch where working people feel like they’ve been left behind by the Democratic Party and the Republicans say they want to be the party to represent the working class,’ O’Brien said.
‘They have an opportunity to do it but you know I think we’ve got a huge opportunity to organize. We’ve been exposing them and we’ve been fighting. And you know our biggest our biggest opponent right now is Amazon and we’re gonna crush them.’
The powerful union elected not to endorse either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris for president, in a stunning blow to the Democrats.
The move came just weeks after O’Brien spoke at the Republican National Convention, and days after Harris met with union leaders.
A letter from the union’s executive board revealed there was a split in the membership, and that there was erosion in support for the Democrats after Joe Biden dropped out in July.
‘President Joe Biden won the support of Teamsters voting in straw polls at local unions between April-July prior to his exit from the race,’ the statement said, pointing to polling data of members.
Teamsters boss Sean O’Brien has blasted the Democratic Party describing how he believes the party has ‘f****d us over for the last 40 years.’
‘But in independent electronic and phone polling from July-September, a majority of voting members twice selected Trump for a possible Teamsters endorsement over Harris’
‘The union’s extensive member polling showed no majority support for Vice President Harris and no universal support among the membership for President Trump.’
That left the leadership of the union that includes truckers and a range of other professions with the difficult position of selecting a candidate who didn’t have strong backing from its own membership.
The union, which is more conservative than many other unions that align with Democrats, hasn’t backed a Republican since 1988. It similarly did not endorse in 1976 or in 1996 during Bill Clinton’s reelection campaign.
It is the only one of the nation’s top ten unions not to back Harris.
According to data released by the union, rank-and-file picked Trump over Harris by 60-34 percent.
The Teamsters also hit both candidates for failing to pledge to back them on core issues.
‘After reviewing six months of nationwide member polling and wrapping up nearly a year of rank-and-file roundtable interviews with all major candidates for the presidency, the union was left with few commitments on top Teamsters issues from either former President Donald Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris—and found no definitive support among members for either party’s nominee,’ it said.
