Counter Punch Article RatingTeamster President O'Brien Tacitly Endorses Trump, But Hundreds of Thousands of Members Defy O'Brien and Support Harris
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36% Somewhat Conservative
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35% ReliableFair
- Policy Leaning
50% Medium Conservative
- Politician Portrayal
-49% Negative
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
52% : But Teamster President Sean O'Brien has tacitly endorsed Donald Trump for president -- by attending and speaking at the Teamster convention, by ensuring that the union's executive board which he dominates voted no endorsement for U.S. president, and by releasing polls that claim a majority of the union's members back Trump.52% : In the poll ending Sept. 15, Teamsters selected Trump by 58 percent for endorsement over 31 percent for Harris."
49% : Trump, speaking at a rally, naturally claimed that the Teamsters had endorsed him
43% : The Teamsters then have hundreds of thousands of Black, Latino, and women members, and both documented and undocumented immigrant members, as well as LGBT members (about 7% of all U.S. adults identify as LGBT, some are Teamsters) all of whom must be aware that Trump -- and apparently O'Brien as well -- have no respect for them.
40% : But it's clear that many of the union's members -- hundreds of thousands of them -- reject O'Brien's no endorsement position and even more strongly the union's implicit endorsement of Trump.
38% : "What are O'Brien and the Teamster executive board thinking of when they claim no endorsement but actually help Trump?
31% : As one Teamster wrote in a discussion on X (formerly Twitter) "Union members voting for Trump is like chickens voting for Colonel Sanders.
26% : "It is not surprising that so many Teamsters would reject Trump.
20% : The Teamsters National Black Caucus has rejected Trump and voted to endorse Harris.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.