Kamala Harris was blind-sided by one brutal surprise that changed everything just weeks before Election Day

Kamala Harris thought that she was going to be able to glide on through to Election Day with no trouble.

But something massive happened that threatened to upended all of the heavy lifting the media has been doing for her.

And Kamala Harris was blind-sided by one brutal surprise that changed everything just weeks before Election Day.

East coast ports shut down due to strike

Big Labor has been dumping millions of dollars into Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign for President.

But one union handed her a brutal October surprise that stood to be the biggest disruption to Americans’ way of life since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Every single port from Maine to Texas shut down on October 1st, marking the first major port shutdown since 1977 due to a dockworkers strike

The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA), took 45,000 dockworkers at ports along the East Coast and the Gulf of Mexico offline, shutting down 36 individual ports due to their controversial demands for an even juicier new contract.

ILA Union Brass seemed to know that they may not ever again hold so much leverage if Donald Trump is elected in November and resumes measures to return America to manufacturing dominance and lessen the country’s dependence on imported goods from China and other nations overseas.

They also knew the Biden-Harris administration would have a hard time crossing their Big Labor allies and breaking the strike so close to Election Day – a move that would almost certainly cause many Harris-supporting unions to withhold funds and the ready-made army of foot soldiers crucial who’ve always been the lynchpin of Democrat Get Out the Vote efforts.

So they threatened to hold America hostage unless the group representing port facility management, the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX), agreed to their exorbitant demands.

The President of ILA, Harold Daggett, had promised to shut down all of the ports should the USMX fail to agree to his terms – which included a whopping 77% pay increase.

“Mark my words,” Daggett threatened. “We’ll shut them down October 1 if we don’t get the kind of wages we deserve.”

Daggett, who commands a mind-boggling $900,000 annual salary, was accused by federal prosecutors in 2004 of becoming head of the ILA due to a conspiracy by the mob to install him in the position.

He was eventually acquitted, however, after one of the co-defendants – a potential state’s witness – mysteriously disappeared during the trial, only for his body to be found inside the trunk of a car in New Jersey.

Fox News reported the co-defendant, “a reputed Genovese family captain named Larry Ricci, disappeared mid-trial and was later found dead in the trunk of a car outside the Huck Finn Diner in Union, New Jersey, 20 miles west of New York City.”

Ahead of the strike, Vice President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce John Drake predicted that Daggett’s threats were not mere bluster.

“This is very different from most of the other negotiations that I was involved with over the last three years,” Drake explained before correctly predicting the strike would happen. “At this point in time [a strike] will happen.”

Drake was right.

The USMX however quickly caved, and the ILA tentatively agreed on Tuesday to a 62% pay increase over six years.

Due to a combination of government regulation and even ownership of port facilities and federal labor law, port facilities and unions operate under near monopoly conditions.

Which is why Dockworkers’ pay is already significant, with a current base salary around $81,000 annually even before the 62% raise. In fact many earn six figures, and some even upwards of $200,000, with overtime under their existing contract, according to multiple reports.

The impact of Daggett’s strike

The strike effectively shut down the ports within the Gulf of Mexico and along the East Coast, starting a massive backlog that could have lasted months, causing immense damage to American supply chains.

A recent analysis from JPMorgan Chase determined that the strike cost $5 billion per day in losses for the economy.

50% of all goods coming into the United States, including goods from cars to fruit, travel through ports impacted by the strike.

While the shutdown has been paused until January, the impact of just the few days ports were shuttered isn’t even unwound yet.

National Retail Federation Vice President Jonathan Gold warned, “A one-day shutdown takes three to five days to recover from.”

If the strike had continued into November, the disruptions would have threatened holiday season shopping, causing massive shortages on days that usually draw high demand for consumers, such as Black Friday.

President Joe Biden has the ability to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act. Had he done so, it would have forced an 80-day “cool-down” period in which the ILA would be forced to return to work.

But a White House spokesman noted that Biden refused to consider that as an option.

“We’ve never invoked Taft-Hartley to break a strike and are not considering doing so now,” the White House sharply responded when asked by Reuters.

Instead the Biden-Harris administration allowed the ILA Brass to hold the country hostage in order to help their Big Labor pals exact concessions unheard of in the real world – concessions many understand are certain to make their way to the pockets of everyday Americans already struggling from rampant inflation under the Biden-Harris administration.