Not a winning position.
Vice President Kamala Harris walked out of a campaign meeting, arrogantly telling him she didn't need his support because she would “win with or without you” – before her crushing loss to Donald Trump, a union leader has revealed. .
Teamsters President Sean O'Brien referenced Monday's episode of “The Tucker Carlson Show” when he discussed his union's historic decision not to endorse a presidential candidate for the first time in nearly 30 years.
O'Brien said Harris finally agreed to sit down with the Teasmstars at a roundtable after President Biden dropped out of the race, just to answer a quarter of their 16 questions. Other candidates, including Trump, have answered all of these questions.
“On the fourth question, one of her agents or one of her employees passed a note in front of me — ‘This will be the last question.’ That was 20 minutes before she was going to finish,” O’Brien told Carlson.
“And her announcement to the director was, 'I'll win with or without you,'” he recalls.
“Damn,” Carlson quipped. I thought I was being arrogant. This is really arrogant.
O'Brien said he called Biden's former Labor Secretary Marty Walsh to talk about the vice president.
“Let me ask you a question, Marty. Excuse me, French. Who do you think this Lady King is?” he recalls asking Walsh, who is now president of the NHL Players Association.
The union president said he met with Biden before he ended his re-election bid and was concerned about him backing down — saying Democrats' initial plan to run the 82-year-old for a second term “sounds like elder abuse.”
“We had Biden there and you could clearly tell he was not the man he was. “It was kind of sad,” O'Brien said, adding that Biden was a good boss.
Weeks before the election, O'Brien announced that for the first time since 1996, truckers would not endorse a presidential candidate after years of relatively reliable alliance with Democrats.
In fact, the union revealed that its 1.3 million members overwhelmingly support Trump over Harris, 59.6% to 34%.
Before Biden withdrew, he was leading steadily at 44.3% to Trump's 36.3%.
The Teamsters supported the Biden-Harris ticket in 2020 and endorsed Hillary Clinton over Trump in 2016.
