The president of the Worldwide Brotherhood of Teamsters, will converse on the Republican Nationwide Conference (RNC) subsequent month in Milwaukee, former US President Donald Trump stated in a submit on his Reality Social platform on Friday.
Trump stated the Teamsters president, Sean O’Brien, had “accepted my invitation to talk on the RNC Conference in Milwaukee.” The 1.3 million-member influential labor union has but to endorse a candidate within the presidential election. It endorsed Democratic President Joe Biden in 2020.
Kara Deniz, a spokesperson for the union, stated O’Brien requested to talk at each the RNC and the Democratic Nationwide Conference, which shall be held in Chicago in August.
“The Teamsters are excited that former President Trump has prolonged this invitation, and we shall be equally excited if and when the DNC chooses to do the identical,” she stated. It might be uncommon within the present polarized political local weather for a person to talk at each conventions.
Earlier this 12 months, O’Brien met each Biden and Trump, and stated the union would conduct a whole lot of polling to decide on its endorsement, “most definitely after the (Republican and Democratic) conventions.”
Trump and Biden are each courting votes from rank-and-file members of organized labor, whose assist within the Nov. 5 election could possibly be essential in battleground states equivalent to Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Biden, who has described himself as probably the most labor-friendly president in historical past and who turned up at a picket line in Michigan through the autoworkers strike final fall, has already obtained important organized labor backing with early endorsements from the AFL-CIO and the United Auto Employees union.
Trump has been making an attempt to make inroads into Biden’s assist amongst organized labor heading into the overall election, as he works to win over extra blue-collar staff, who helped gas his 2016 victory.
The Teamsters is likely one of the nation’s largest unions and represents truck drivers, dockworkers, airline pilots, authorities workers and plenty of different sectors.
