Teamsters President Sean O’Brien told conservative host Tucker Carlson that Vice President Kamala Harris was arrogant and took support from organized labor for granted before her eventual loss in the November election to former President Donald Trump.
During an interview on Carlon’s show, O’Brien, who addressed the Republican National Convention in August, told Carlson that Harris said his union better “get on board” and that she was going to win the election with or without the Teamsters.
O’Brien told Carlson he was floored by the moment, saying, “Who does this fucking lady think she is?”
First, O’Brien told Carlson that his union had asked Senator Joe Biden and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to answer questions about issues that were important to Teamsters members before they dropped their presidential bids.
There were sixteen questions. Trump and Kennedy answered all of them, while Biden only answered five, O’Brien said. O’Brien told a story about the vice president after Harris was chosen as her party’s candidate.
The boss of the Teamsters said he sent a female vice president of the union to meet her at an event.
O’Brien said when the union representative identified herself, Harris responded, “Teamsters? You better get on board, you’d better get on board. Get on board soon.”
“Says that to my vice president, to her face. So she comes back, we have a meeting the next and she tells me this. So I call up Marty Walsh, who was 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*cking lady think she is?” Like, if I want support from any organization I am not going to point my finger in someone’s face and say “you’d better get on board or else.” But that’s the attitude of this whole party,” O’Brien added.
O’Brien claimed Harris also declared, “I’m going to win with you or without you.”
He later concluded, “I knew she was going to lose.”
Harris is not planning to “go quietly into the night” after she was thumped in the 2024 presidential election.
During a segment on CNN, reporter Isaac Dovere revealed that Harris privately tells backers she is considering running for governor of California in 2026 or president in 2028. Harris also reportedly does not want her “final act” to be certifying Donald Trump’s election victory over her.
“We haven’t seen or heard much from Vice President Kamala Harris since she lost the election last month,” CNN’s Manu Raju told CNN’s viewers. “But the Democratic Party still reeling from Trump’s victory.”
