by Adam Pack
Republicans still receive trade union support among the President of the Union of Teamsters Sean O’Brien repeatedly raising Democrats for alleged leaving the working class.
The International Brotherhood of Democrats Teamsters, Republican, Independent Electoral Education (Drive) PAC has published almost USD 70,000 on Republicans this year. Donations are the second cycle in a row, which Teamsters’ political arm has given to republican candidates after they contributed to Democrats only for about two decades.
“Our members work people whose interests limit the party lines,” said Politico spokesman, Politico spokesman who first reported the Drive Pac contribution. “And life in the bubble has no value … where you only talk to some people with exclusion of others.”
Teamsters’ political arm contributed to USD 5000 to the National Republican Congress Committee (NRCC), the arm of the House Republican campaign and a total of 62,000 to 22 to 22 Republicans from New York. Nicole Malliotakis, Andrew Garbarino, Nick Lalota, Mike Lawler, as well as New Jersey Reps. Jeff van Drew and Chris Smith on the occasion of 2025.
O’Brien was a fierce critic of the apparent failure of the Democratic Party, despite the fact that former President Joe Biden often advertises his one term as “the most proof” presidency in America’s history.
“Where the Democrats lost … They fell in love with their kidnappers. They fell in love with a lot of money. They fell in love with large technology. And they forgot who they really represent: people working. You know why? Because they are not in their communities, not in their neighborhood,” O’Brien he said On Tuesday “honestly from Bari Weiss”. “They don’t talk to the people they pay for.”
“Listen, all these choices for democrats were based on social justice issues, right?” Added O’Brien. “And it seemed that this narrative about the issues of social justice did not identify with our members. Our members identify with more money in their pockets, greater work protection, better pensions.”
The head of Teamsters was First President of the Union to talk At the Republican National Convention (RNC) in July 2024, during which O’Brien tried to build a closer relationship between the candidates from the Union and the Republican. Teams rejected To support the presidential candidate during the presidential election in 2024 after internal surveys, revealing that almost 60% of their members supported Trump over the former vice president of Kamal Harris.
Trump turned to vote during the political cycle in 2024, victorious Most non -cological voters from all racial environments and voters earning less than USD 50,000 per year in November last year.
Republican strategists are trying to preserve the support of the working class voters before the Democratic Group as a democratic group invest Tens of millions of dollars to recover the voice block.
“Hard -working men and women throughout the country are approaching Republicans up and bottom, because we are fighting for their work, their families and the future,” said NRCC spokesman Mike Marinella in a statement. “Democrats abandoned them for a deep, radical policy.”
“These voters are the key to maintaining and developing our majority and we plan to do everything in our power to get their support,” Marinella continued.
Teamsters’ political arm still financially supports the democratic candidates and causes. DRIVE PAC he contributed USD 200,000 for a democratic prosecutors’ Association and USD 100,000 for the Democratic Association of Governors in the second quarter of fund raising.
TeamSters spokesman did not immediately answer at the Daily Caller News Foundation request for comment
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Adam Pack is a reporter at the Daily Caller News Foundation. Caden Olson contributed to this report.
Photo “Sean O’Brien” by Ted Merriman. CC By-Sa 4.0.
