Kamala Harris Told Teamsters VP ‘To Get On Board,’ Souring Relationship

 Before President Joe Biden dropped his re-election bid, Vice President Kamala Harris demanded the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union “get on board,” which didn’t sit well with the union’s leadership.

Teamsters president Sean O’Brien says that just before Biden dropped out, Harris was meeting with local union leadership when she simply demanded the union endorse Biden.

“Around June or May, one of my vice presidents, a woman named Joan Corey out of my local, she sits on our general executive board, was at an event with Vice President Harris,” O’Brien said in the interview with Tucker Carlson. “And they’re going through the line to get the picture and Joan introduces herself to Vice President Harris, says, ‘I’m Joan Corey, I’m on the general executive board for the Teamsters.”

“[Harris] goes, ‘Teamsters? You better get on board. You better get on board. Better get on board soon,’” O’Brien said. “Says it to my vice president.”

Carlson asked if Harris said that to Corey’s face, and O’Brien said she did, and that Corey told him about the interaction the next day.

“So, she tells me this. So, I call up Marty Walsh – he wasn’t the secretary of labor – but he was pushing hard for us to make the endorsement. I’m like, ‘Let me ask you a question, Marty. Excuse my French. Who does this f***ing lady think she is?’” O’Brien said.

“Like, if I want support from any organization, I am not gonna point my finger in someone’s face and say, ‘You better get on board or else,’” O’Brien continued. “But that’s the attitude of this whole party.”

 

After Harris became the nominee, O’Brien said, she finally agreed to a roundtable meeting with the Teamsters, but only answered four out of their 16 questions. O’Brien said other candidates, including President-elect Donald Trump, answered all of the union’s questions.

“On the fourth question, one of her operatives or one of her staff slips a note in front of me — ‘This will be the last question.’ And it was 20 minutes earlier than the time it was going to end,” O’Brien said during his interview with Carlson.

O’Brien said that when Harris left, she told the Teamsters: “I’m going to win with you or without you.”

Just weeks before the election, Harris became the first Democrat in decades not to be endorsed by the Teamster’s union, with a majority of members backing Trump instead, The Daily Wire reported at the time.

“The union’s extensive member polling showed no majority support for Vice President Harris and no universal support among the membership for President Trump,” the Teamsters announced at the time.

Harris went on to lose the election, including losing every battleground state.