Republicans elevated culture-war issues alongside economic ones to siphon working-class support from Democrats in a way longtime Teamsters said was unprecedented.
Vice president of the Eastern Region of the Teamsters Bill Hamilton, Local 107 president and business agent, poses in the local’s office at the Philadelphia Regional Authority Administration Building Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024. Local 107 members were split 60/40 in favor of electing Donald Trump.
“Our own union was split over this stuff,” Hamilton said to members on Sunday. “We had brothers and sisters not talking to each other over this stuff.” “I didn’t like the whole thing about men being able to play in women’s sports,” said Farley, a father of two daughters, about the idea of transgender women and girls playing in women’s sports. He also took issue withthat demonized Harris for her support for transgender people. Several people mentioned one prominent anti-Harris commercial about gender-affirming care — called “sex changes” in the ad — for undocumented people in prisons.
Michael Sviben, a retired union truck driver from Camden, said he voted for former President Barack Obama in 2012. This year, he cast a ballot for Trump because he felt he couldn’t trust President Joe Biden or Harris. Conservative media and officials have attacked Harris, who was assigned the longer-term task of tackling the root issues of immigration, over border-control issues.increases to the federal minimum wage. He altered an impending Obama-era overtime rule by decreasing the income threshold for overtime workers, which“I was willing to take that risk and vote for that,” said Farley.
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