--- title: "Grill: Teamsters’ canvassing proved decisive in tight midterm election" description: The America’s Work Force Union Podcast is the nation’s premier daily labor program. Harry Grill of the Teamsters Department joined us on today’s show. image: https://awf.labortools.com/hubfs/teamsters%20red%20mic.jpg --- Season 3, Episode 230 # Grill: Teamsters’ canvassing proved decisive in tight midterm election [ awfblog ](https://awf.labortools.com/listen/author/awfblog) November 23, 2022 [America's Work Force Union Podcast](https://awf.labortools.com/listen/tag/americas-work-force-union-podcast) [Teamsters](https://awf.labortools.com/listen/tag/teamsters) ![Teamsters_Union_Logo.svg](https://awf.labortools.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Teamsters_Union_Logo.svg.png?width=440&height=545&name=Teamsters_Union_Logo.svg.png)   Guest Name: --- Harry Grill Guest Website: --- https://teamster.org/ Guest Social Media: --- [ Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/teamsters/) [ Twitter](https://twitter.com/Teamsters?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) [ YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/teamsterpower) [ LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/international-brotherhood-of-teamsters/) Supportive Documents: ---   Harry Grill, National Field Director for the [Teamsters Union’s Department of Political and Legislative Action](https://teamster.org/political-legislative-action/), joined the America’s Work Force Union Podcast and explained how the Teamsters’ political canvassing efforts helped Democrats prevail in numerous midterm election races. He recounted the importance of door-to-door canvassing during the 2020 elections and how those efforts contributed to President Joe Biden’s win. He then detailed political canvassing efforts on the part of the Teamsters during the recent midterm elections and how those efforts helped Teamster endorsed candidates win tight races in Nevada, Arizona, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania. Lastly, Grill discussed what the Teamsters are doing to help U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) in his campaign against Republican challenger Herschel Walker in the Georgia election runoff. Listen to the entire episode to learn more about Teamsters’ canvassing efforts: --- America’s Work Force is the only daily labor podcast in the US and has been on the air since 1993, supplying listeners with useful, relevant input into their daily lives through fact-finding features, in-depth interviews, informative news segments and practical consumer reports. 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