Teamsters in all states prefer Trump to Kamala: internal poll

While the Teamsters union has announced that it won’t endorse any candidate in the 2024 election, internal polling of its members across all 50 states has found that its members overwhelmingly support Trump, even in Democrat strongholds.

Trump saw the largest lead in West Virginia, where he received 86.3 percent support compared to 11.2 percent for Kamala Harris, a 75.1-point lead.



Trump saw a roughly 50-point lead over Harris in Tennessee; a roughly 40-point lead in states like Arkansas, Connecticut, Indiana, Virginia, and Montana; a roughly 30-point lead in states like Alaska, Hawaii, South Carolina, Ohio, Kentucky, Maine, and New Mexico; and a roughly 20-point lead in Texas, Utah, North Dakota, and Nebraska.

Trump led Harris in all 2024 swing states as well, leading 56.3 percent to 40.7 in Georgia, 59.9 percent to 37.3 in Nevada, 57 percent to 40.5 percent in Wisconsin, 61.7 percent to 35.2 in Michigan, 57.3 percent to 38.7 in Arizona, 65.3 percent to 31.4 in Pennsylvania, and 69.1 percent to 29.2 in North Carolina.

Members in states that are traditionally Democrat strongholds also preferred Trump over Harris, including California (48.8-46.4), Colorado (53.5-40.5), Massachusetts (63.3-33.3), Oregon (54.8-42.3), and New York (62.3-33.8).

Two outliers in the poll were Wyoming, where there was "no recorded participation by Teamsters in the state," and the District of Columbia, where 96.8 percent of its members voted for Harris and 0 percent voted for Trump or another candidate. In the 2020 election, Biden won the district with 93 percent of the vote.

The Teamsters Electronic Member Poll was conducted between July 24 and September 15, with over 35,000 union members responding. The electronic poll was independently managed by BallotPoint Election Services.

A press release from the union on September 18 revealed that the union would not be endorsing any candidate in 2024. "After reviewing six months of nationwide member polling and wrapping up nearly a year of rank-and-file roundtable interviews with all major candidates for the presidency, the union was left with few commitments on top Teamsters issues from either former President Donald Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris—and found no definitive support among members for either party’s nominee."