A looming strike could disrupt the economy just before the election. It’s mostly up to one fiery union leader.

A looming dockworkers strike threatens to shut down East Coast ports and snarl the national economy.

The decision to strike is largely in the hands of the head of the dockworkers union.

Harold Daggett , a native New Yorker who’s been accused of having mob ties, has been critical of the Biden administration.

The strike could be injected almost immediately into the presidential campaigns because it would begin the same day as the vice presidential debate.

Peter Bergen : Port union leader seems to be distancing himself from people who might seem like his allies.

He disses Biden for how he helped avoid a strike last year on the West Coast , Bergen writes.

Bergen says Biden administration has never used Taft-Hartley Act to prevent a strike in the U.S ..

The White House and Maryland Gov. Wes Moore ’s office both rejected this version of events.

Daggett has been dogged by allegations that he benefited from mob support in various ways.

Two decades ago , federal prosecutors in Brooklyn accused him of benefiting from a mob conspiracy to elect him head of the ILA .