The Republican standard-bearer was the first GOP candidate to be interviewed for an endorsement earlier this year.
President Joe Biden, center left, talks with Teamsters union President Sean O'Brien after he spoke about strengthening the supply chain with improvements in the trucking industry on April 4, 2022, on the South Lawn of the White House. | Andrew Harnik/APMILWAUKEE — One of the nation’s largest unions has yet to endorse a presidential candidate as its leader makes history Monday by speaking at the Republican National Convention.
The Teamsters typically back Democratic presidential nominees, and Biden has touted himself as the most pro-union president in history, even walking picket lines with United Auto Workers during their strike in Michigan earlier this year.concluded that the diminished support for Clinton in 2016 may have been enough to account for her losses in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan — swing states that factor heavily into Biden’s reelection bid.
“He was the only candidate that got a chance to speak in our lobby with the thunder and lightning that that emblem means for the Teamsters. He was the only one that got that chance,” Richard Hooker Jr., of local 623 in Philadelphia, said in an interview. “And when you start to play around with something like that, it seems that you are validating his candidacy.”
Palmer believes there’s not been enough education from the Teamsters leadership explaining policy differences between Biden and Trump, such as in National Labor Relations Board appointments and Biden’s signing into law the Butch-Lewis Act, which saved some member pensions. The board member also acknowledged that an endorsement does not necessarily dictate how rank-and-file members will vote.
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