Teamsters president Sean O’Brien raged in a podcast interview that Democrats “f–ked us over for the last 40 years” — after a poll showed rank-and-file union members planned to overwhelmingly back Republican Donald Trump in the Nov. 5 election.
“I’ll be honest with you, I’m a Democrat, but they have f–ked us over for the last 40 years,” O’Brien told comedian Theo Von on Monday’s episode of the “This Past Weekend” podcast.
“And for once, and not all of them, but for once, we’re standing up as a union, probably the only one right now, saying, ‘What the f–k have you done for us?’” O’Brien added.
“And I’m getting attacked from the left and we’ve given — since I’ve been in office, 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 the working people. They’re bought and paid for by Big Tech.”
O’Brien, whose union typically endorses Democrats, spoke at the Republican National Convention in July.
The Teamsters chose not to formally back a candidate this year, despite releasing poll results showing members supported Trump by a margin of nearly two-to-one
Last month, the union said an electronic poll of members found 59.6% backed Trump, the populist former president, while just 34% preferred Vice President Kamala Harris. A phone poll of members had nearly identical results.
“If 60% of our members don’t support you, the f–king system’s broken. You need to fix it, stop pointing fingers at Sean O’Brien, stop pointing fingers at the Teamsters union. Look in the mirror,” O’Brien told Von.
“Before, you always had Democrats fighting for working people, and, you know, Republicans, now, we kind of see a switch where working people feel like, number one, they’ve been left behind by the Democratic Party. Two, you know, the Republicans say they want to be working-class [and] represent the working class. They have an opportunity to do it.”
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