The Teamsters president spoke at the RNC, but he doesn't speak for all Teamsters

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Trump was going to rebuild the American Dream; they heard "union jobs."
54% : In an election as close as this ... to platform Trump is really leadership malpractice.
48% : Smith spoke out against O'Brien's turn toward Trump on his show.
45% : He had already made the pilgrimage to "MAGA-Lago," took Trump into the union hall where Trump held a press conference in front of [the horses on the Teamsters' logo] Thunder and Lightning.
38% : Look at the general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board under Trump -- a guy named Peter Robb, who was instrumental in firing the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization workers back in 1981.
33% : Rick Smith is a longtime Teamster who says O'Brien is "normalizing" Trump by granting him a platform to appeal to union members, especially given Trump's poor labor record.
28% : Someone could argue O'Brien could be the guy who gets Trump to be less bad.
12% : Most other U.S. labor unions have endorsed President Joe Biden, and many Teamsters are upset with O'Brien's decision to engage with Trump.

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