Posted on 12/24/2024 8:58:06 AM PST by Signalman
Sean O’Brien, president of the Teamsters, recently revealed that during the 2024 presidential election season, Vice President Kamala Harris stormed out of a meeting with the union, telling O’Brien she’d “win with you or without you,” only to be crushed by President-elect Donald Trump in November. O’Brien recounted the incident during an appearance on “The Tucker Carlson Show” on Monday, during which he also talked about the union’s historic decision to pass on giving a presidential endorsement for the first time in three decades.
According to a new report from The New York Post, Vice President Kamala Harris agreed to sit down for a roundtable discussion after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race but ended up only answering 16 of the questions they had prepared. The other candidates in the race, including Trump, went the distance and answered them all.
“On the fourth question, one of her operatives or one of her staff slips a note in front of me — ‘This will be the last question.’ And it was 20 minutes earlier than the time it was going to end,” O’Brien said during the conversation with Carlson. “And her declaration on the way out was, ‘I’m going to win with you or without you.”
Carlson wisecracked, “Damn. I thought I was arrogant. That’s really arrogant.”
The Teamsters president then stated that he reached out to the president’s former Secretary of Labor, Marty Walsh, to discuss the vice president. “Let me ask you a question, Marty. Excuse my French. Who does this f–king lady think she is?” he asked Walsh, who now serves as the top dog of the NHL Players’ Association.
The union president said he had met Biden before he ended his reelection bid and was concerned at his decline — saying the Democrats’ initial plan to run the 82-year-old for a second term “kinda looked like elderly abuse.” “We had Biden in there and you could just clearly tell he was not the man he was. It was kinda sad,” O’Brien said, adding that Biden was a good president for workers. Weeks before the election, O’Brien announced that for the first time since 1996 the Teamsters would not be endorsing a presidential candidate after years of a relatively reliable alliance with Democrats.
The union soon revealed that the vast majority of its 1.3 million members supported Trump over Harris, with totals of 59.6 percent and 34 percent, respectively. Before Biden exited the race, he was ahead of Trump 44.3 percent to 36.3 percent.
During the 2020 race, the Teamsters endorsed the Biden-Harris ticket and, before that, backed Hillary Clinton over Trump in 2016.
Harris is the epitome of today’s liberals. If you question anything they say they go off the deep end and can’t handle it. They consider their entire construct to be perfect and it must be accepted in its entirety.
My theory is that they are in the grip of a quasi-religious experience, complete with sacraments, indulgences and condemnations of any deviation from their dogma.
I’m still surprised the imbecile KH got more than 10 votes. How could people be SO STUPID!
O Brian failed his constituents
His constituents wanted an endorsement of trump by almost 60%. He failed
He should be replaced. Someone who speaks for his constituents is needed.
Don't be absurd. If Dr. Jill is a doctor, you are a doctor.
By the powers invested in me (not much BTW), I confer on you the degree of Doctor of Conservatism.
“How could people be SO STUPID!”
They weren’t stupid, they were terrified. Trump was all Democrats talked about in conversations, they never even mentioned Harris. They could list every one of his “transgressions and crimes” in order, all “32” of them. They had them memorized like the Lord’s Prayer.
The attrition rate of Kamala’s staff only slightly exceeds the attrition rate from the Democrat party as a whole. Altogether, Kamala single-handedly probably gained more votes for Trump than all the efforts to contain fraud everywhere across the entire United States.
Not the most shining moment for the Democrat Party and those who put their heart and soul into their personal Trump Derangement Syndrome.
“Before Biden exited the race, he was ahead of Trump 44.3 percent to 36.3 percent.“
Almost unbelievable, despite a 4 year dumpster fire
Telling 1 million people...mostly males...what to do isn’t too smart.
“According to a new report from The New York Post, Vice President Kamala Harris agreed to sit down for a roundtable discussion after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race but ended up only answering 16 of the questions they had prepared. The other candidates in the race, including Trump, went the distance and answered them all.”
The author of this article — Michael — is so lazy that he can’t even plagiarize the NY Post correctly. According to the NY Post, the Teamsters provided all candidates with a total of 16 questions, but Harris only answered four — Not sixteen, as Michael reports.
In the very next paragraph, however, Michael correctly reports that Harris bailed out of the Q&A after four questions. Not only does he lack plagiarizing skills, but proofreading for internal consistency is obviously not one of his skill sets.
Yet, dispute this display of arrogance and ignorance, he still decided to ride the fence and not endorse Trump. Cowardly.
“With Or Without You”... Hey, I didn’t know Commie-La was a U2 fan.
“So why no Trump endorsement then”
card check
intimidation would bring in more $$$,$$$,$$$ than fair and secret ballot NLRB elections
Kamala too, likes to live dangerously.
“he still decided to ride the fence and not endorse Trump. Cowardly.”
He remembers the 2020 election, and Georgia, and Wisconsin, and Arizona...
Apparently, poorfreding is oberraded.
What, you think the leadership runs the union on behalf of the members?
How to win friends and influence people.
Don’t know where the revisionism is coming from.
Biden trailed Trump by about 2% at time of coup.
Biden’s internals tweaked turnout model very slightly to get him a tie, but he generally trailed at time of coup.
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs-harris the graph at July 21 is +2 Trump.
Harris replaced and pollsters all collectively decided to change their turnout models to add women and black votes to their target %s. Meaning:
No One In The Samples Changed Their Minds (only the pollsters)
Time passed. Surveys were taken to actually measure what the turnout model should be (Hello? You’re black? Will you be voting?) and found no more blacks and no more women were going to turnout than had planned to early July. Presto, the Harris “lead” began to disappear.
The MOE was about 3% for all of this stuff. Trump won popular vote by 2%, well within that MOE.
The polls were pretty damn good.
Please run again Kamala .
Your nation needs you to run again .
“”Not only does he lack plagiarizing skills, but proofreading for internal consistency is obviously not one of his skill sets.””
That’s what you get hanging around democRATS.
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