Trump touts support from nearly 60% of Teamsters members: 'Nobody ever expected' this to happen

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, for the archetypal clip since 1996, is not endorsing the Democratic statesmanlike nominee aft a canvass showed astir 60% of its members enactment erstwhile President Trump.

"They're going to, I guess, stay neutral. But that was benignant of a large event. Nobody ever expected thing similar that to happen," Trump said connected "Gutfeld!" Wednesday successful his archetypal in-studio quality connected the deed late-night show.  

"They really took a canvass of the Teamsters, of the people, the workers, the radical that truly bash the job. And they're good. I've had galore of them enactment for maine with the factual stuff, you know, the frames, they enactment up the frames, they thrust the trucks, truthful they conscionable announced they're not going to enactment the Democrats." 

"We had a tremendous vantage with the people," said Trump. "It's been many, galore years since they supported a Republican oregon did this."

DNC APPARENTLY SNUBS TEAMSTERS PRESIDENT FOLLOWING HIS HISTORIC RNC SPEECH

A New York City national authoritative and erstwhile Democrat joined "Fox & Friends" Thursday to explicate wherefore helium cannot enactment VP Harris.

"For everything that's gone connected successful the past 4 years. An unfastened border, inflation, state prices, oil, owe rates. I mean, I tin spell connected and on. The immigrants conscionable getting into neighborhoods, similar the vicinity I grew up in… These are wherever radical worked hard each their beingness to bargain a location successful a bully neighborhood, and present it's destroyed by amerciable immigrants," said Bob Bartels, concern manager of Steamfitters Local Union 638.

In a merchandise titled "Union Workers Support President Donald Trump," the run highlighted the erstwhile president's much than 25-point borderline implicit the vice president successful some online and telephone surveys of Teamsters.

Trump run nationalist property caput Karoline Leavitt argued successful a connection that "the hardworking members of the Teamsters person been large and wide — they privation President Trump backmost successful the White House. These hardworking men and women are the backbone of America and President Trump volition powerfully basal up for them erstwhile he’s backmost successful the White House."

The almighty national has implicit 1 cardinal members successful the U.S. and is profoundly connected to working-class voters successful the cardinal Midwestern wide predetermination battlegrounds and successful different plaything states crossed the country. Until now, it had endorsed the Democratic campaigner for president successful each predetermination since 1980.

Asked if the determination by the Teamsters volition impact the election, Trump said, "I deliberation it will. Yeah, I deliberation so. The Teamsters transportation a batch of weight."

In explaining the reasoning for declining to endorse a 2024 statesmanlike campaigner Wednesday, the national said successful a statement, "The union’s extended subordinate polling showed nary bulk enactment for Vice President Harris and nary cosmopolitan enactment among the rank for President Trump."

Teamsters General President Sean O'Brien said, "Neither large campaigner was capable to marque superior commitments to our national to guarantee the interests of moving radical are ever enactment earlier Big Business."

Vice President Kamala Harris and erstwhile President Donald Trump. (AP Photos)

The Harris campaign, successful a connection to Fox News aft the national opted to stay neutral, pointed to endorsements from "many Teamsters locals and fertile and file."

"While Donald Trump says striking workers should beryllium fired, Vice President Harris has virtually walked the picket enactment and stood beardown with organized labour for her full career," Harris run spokesperson Lauren Hitt said.

"The vice president’s beardown national grounds is wherefore Teamsters locals crossed the state person already endorsed her — alongside the overwhelming bulk of organized labor. As the vice president told the Teamsters connected Monday, erstwhile she is elected president, she volition look retired for the Teamsters fertile and record nary substance what due to the fact that they ever person been and ever volition beryllium the radical she fights for."

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Fox News' Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.