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

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The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, for the first time since 1996, is not endorsing the Democratic presidential nominee after a poll showed nearly 60% of its members support former President Trump.

"They're going to, I guess, remain neutral. But that was sort of a big event. Nobody ever expected anything like that to happen," Trump said on "Gutfeld!" Wednesday in his first in-studio appearance on the hit late-night show.

"They actually took a poll of the Teamsters, of the people, the workers, the people that really do the job. And they're good. I've had many of them work for me with the concrete stuff, you know, the frames, they put up the frames, they drive the trucks, so they just announced they're not going to support the Democrats."

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

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A New York City union official and former Democrat joined "Fox & Friends" Thursday to explain why he cannot support VP Harris.

"For everything that's gone on in the last four years. An open border, inflation, gas prices, oil, mortgage rates. I mean, I can go on and on. The immigrants just getting into neighborhoods, like the neighborhood I grew up in… These are where people worked hard all their life to buy a house in a