A union leader revealed that Vice President Kamala Harris stormed out of a meeting on the campaign trail, arrogantly telling him she didn’t need his support because she’d “win with you or without you” — just before her crushing loss to Donald Trump.
Teamsters President Sean O’Brien recalled the episode on “The Tucker Carlson Show” Monday as he discussed his union’s historic decision not to endorse a presidential candidate for the first time in nearly 30 years.
O’Brien said Harris finally agreed to sit with the Teasmstars for a roundtable after President Biden dropped out of the race, just to only answer a quarter of their 16 questions. Other candidates, including Trump, answered them all.
“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 told Carlson.
“And her declaration of the way out was, ‘I’m going to win with you or without you,’’ he recalled.
Carlson quipped, “Damn. I thought I was arrogant. That’s really arrogant.”
O’Brien said he contacted Biden’s former Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh to talk about the vice president.
“Let me ask you a question, Marty. Excuse my French. Who does this f–king lady think she is?” he remembered asking Walsh, who is now the head of the NHL Players’ Association.
The union president said he had met Biden before he ended his reelection bid and was concerned at his decline — saying the Democrats’ initial plan to run the 82-year-old for a second term “kinda looked like elderly abuse.”
“We had Biden in there and you could just clearly tell he was not the man he was. It was kinda sad,” O’Brien said, adding that Biden was a good president for workers.
Weeks before the election, O’Brien announced that for the first time since 1996 the Teamsters would not be endorsing a presidential candidate after years of a relatively reliable alliance with Democrats.
In fact, the union revealed its 1.3 million members overwhelmingly supported Trump over Harris 59.6% to 34%.
Before Biden withdrew, he’d held a steady lead of 44.3% to Trump’s 36.3%.
In fact, the union revealed its 1.3 million members overwhelmingly supported Trump over Harris 59.6% to 34%.
The Teamsters backed the Biden-Harris ticket in 2020 and endorsed Hillary Clinton over Trump in 2016.