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PBD Disturbed As Teamsters Union Withholds 2024 Endorsement, Bucks Trend

On Thursday’s PBS News Hour, anchor Geoff Bennett seemed bugged that the large and influential Teamsters union (representing truckers) wasn’t falling in line with other unions and endorsing the liberal Democratic ticket of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

Anchor Geoff Bennett began: “One of the nation’s largest unions, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, says it won’t make an endorsement in the 2024 presidential election, choosing not to throw the union’s support behind either Vice President Kamala Harris or former president Donald Trump. It’s the first time the union has skipped an endorsement in a presidential race since 1996, having supported the Democratic nominee in each election since.” 

The PBS anchor interviewed Teamsters president Sean O’Brien and instantly took up for the Biden Administration.

O’Brien brought up Democratic-backed trucking deregulation from…

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