Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is facing calls to step aside after Democrats were battered in the 2024 elections.

During an interview on Fox News with host Neil Cavuto, Teamsters International President Sean O’Brien called on Pelosi and New York Democrat Sen. Chuck Schumer to step aside after Republicans won back the White House and Senate and kept control of the House.

“I think that they lost — they lost touch with the working class people. It was clearly evident in the election results. And look, this was an economic election. I mean, we still have a lot of our members, we still have a lot of working class Americans that are hurt, and they felt the struggle at the pump, they felt the struggle at the grocery store. And 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. And they wanted to talk down to a lot of working class people. 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 came down to as an economic decision on this election,” O’Brien said.

Cavuto asked: “We’re told a majority — I’m sorry, Sean — we’re told the majority of your members favor Donald Trump over Kamala Harris. I don’t know the full details there. I do know that when you had the opportunity to endorse a candidate or your leadership that you chose not to this year, and that alone sent reverberations around the political world. Do you regret now, not endorsing Donald Trump outright?”

“No, we don’t have any regrets on the process that we went through. You know, the polling that we did was extensive. Obviously, it went towards President Trump, but we still got a large contingency that are still Democrat, vote Democrats. So that decision we made as a general executive board, and I’ll stand by it. The good news is, is that, you know, the Democrats have an opportunity to refocus and try and reclaim why they lost the working class. And the Republicans have been saying all along, they want to be the working class people. So it’s a great opportunity for both sides, especially the Republican to approve that. We’ve got a lot of issues that we need to get resolved in this country. And, you know, we’ve got to do it,” O’Brien declared.

O’Brien continued: “I think looking back now if they had to look back and assess, and hopefully the finger-pointing will stop and the assessment will happen, I think they’ll look back and say, we should have had one of the most powerful labor organizations represented the Democratic National Convention because the message would have been the same.”