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Antonio Caracciolo is a member of the Teamsters local 282 in New York. He supports Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and is part of the Teamsters For Trump movement.
A group that traditionally votes Democrat, teamsters are overwhelmingly flocking towards Donald Trump in this election.
In an interview with NPR, when asked why he is supporting Trump, a Anthony said:
“Because he’s putting skin in the game, as the old saying is. He is writing the check. If someone crashes your truck or something and you own the business, you have to pay the bills. Well, he is – right now, he’s paying the bills for himself. None of the other candidates can say that. Except close to him is Bernie Sanders. But Bernie’s traction is losing.
You know, in the Home Depots in Long Island and New York City, the immigrants hang out there for day labor. And when they – they chased them out of Alabama. They don’t hang out there as much anymore. And know the state of Arizona and Alabama, where they were challenging people for citizenship, the illegal immigrants left the states. The jobs become more available. When there’s less people, there’s other jobs available. The employers who were employing those illegal immigrants, they have to turn to more-skilled workers. As less people are available for the workforce, the individuals who are hiring have to pay more.
When Arizona started acting tough on illegal immigrants, we saw Arizona license plates in New York and Long Island because they left that area.”
Though the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which says it has 1.4 million members, has not made an endorsement, groups have popped up pledging their support for Trump online. Unions such as the Teamsters normally support Democrats, but the truckers’ union famously endorsed President Ronald Reagan in 1984. Trump, hoping to build on his appeal to white working class Republicans, would love to pull off a similar coup.
Trump has earned the endorsement of at least one prominent union: the National Border Patrol Council.
Back in March, the federal employee union representing more than 16,500 workers made an endorsement for the very first time, praising Trump for his statements border security.
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