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The Teamsters president, Sean O'Brien, has shown an openness to former President Donald J. Trump, dividing the powerful union. Neither candidate will be the beneficiary of its considerable organizing muscle.
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 Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesKamala Harris suffered a blow to her campaign Wednesday when the Teamsters, one of the most influential labor unions with long ties to the Democratic Party, declined to make a presidential endorsement.
The announcement from the leadership of the 1.3-million-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters marked the first time in nearly three decades the union sat out a presidential election. In every presidential election since 1996—the last year the Teamsters did not endorse a presidential candidate—the union has endorsed a Democrat.
About two-thirds of the union's membership supports Donald Trump, recent electronic and phone surveys found. About a third supports Harris. Earlier this year, Joe Biden bested Trump in the organization's town hall straw polls.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 Ronda Churchill/ReutersA crowd assembled to hear Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance speak on Wednesday reacted strongly to a reporter's question about the Federal Reserve cutting interest rates by half a percentage point, booing as the journalist pointed out that the move would take the strain off Americans struggling with rising prices.
"Just on the Fed cutting—it's a very Wall Street Journal-y question, but the Fed cut the interest rate today by a half a percentage point," the reporter can be heard saying in footage of the Raleigh, North Carolina rally, "[that's] going to alleviate inflation for a lot of people. And so if you have any reaction to that?"
As the audience jeered, Vance replied, "Look, my reaction is… half a point is nothing compared to what American families have been dealing with for the last three years."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 Piroschka Van De Wouw/ReutersPolice responded to a "suspicious occurrence" near the site of a Donald Trump rally set for tonight in Long Island, Newsweek reported. Contrary to rumors that swirled on social media, no explosive devices were found.
The update comes amid heightened scrutiny of the former president and current Republican nominee's security after a suspected second assassination attempt against him two days ago.
"We did respond to a suspicious occurrence in the vicinity of the Nassau Coliseum, however there was no validity of an explosive device being found," a representative of the Nassau Police Department told Newsweek. "We're unsure where this information originated, but we can confirm that no explosives were discovered."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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