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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Michael Sainato and Helen Sullivan

Teamsters decline to endorse election candidate – but claim majority backs Trump

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Sean O’Brien speaks at the RNC in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on 15 July 2024. Photograph: Jeenah Moon/Reuters

The Teamsters International, a powerful US transportation workers union that represents over 1.3 million workers, declined to endorse a candidate ahead of November’s presidential election – but released data suggesting most of its members backed Donald Trump over Kamala Harris.

Polling conducted before Joe Biden, who in 2023 became the first sitting president to join a picket line, dropped out of the race, showed that the union’s members preferred Biden to Trump, 44.3% to 36.3%, according to the Union.

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