Teamsters president offers blunt assessment of Dems 2024 loss [Video]

Teamsters President Sean O’Brien said one reason the Democratic Party lost so decisively in the 2024 presidential election was because it “lost touch” with working-class voters.

O’Brien, a fourth-generation Teamster, told Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto on “Your World” the 2024 race turned out to be an “economic election.” The Democratic Party, he argued, “wanted to talk down” to working-class voters instead of listening to their concerns about gas, housing and food prices.

“Instead of embracing and trying to find a solution to the problem, the Democrats took a position that their opinion mattered, and that’s all that mattered,” O’Brien said on Tuesday.

“You know, social issues are important, but at the end of the day, it’s putting food on the table, being able to afford a home, and despite, you know, the rhetoric of ‘this is the best economy ever,’ you know, it really hasn’t been. So that’s what I believe it came down to. It was an economic decision.”

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