Anthony Constantino — who survived one of the nastiest House races in upstate New York by “being authentic” and standing by the president — is poised to become one of the GOP’s most outspoken voices in the minority.

The CEO of custom printing company Sticker Mule, who burst onto the political scene in 2024 by putting a huge “Vote for Trump” sign on the roof of his factory in the city of Amsterdam, spoke to The Post Thursday after declaring victory in his midterm race — one of the few bright spots for Republicans in an election where Democrats seized control of the House and Senate.

“I stood by the president. I stood by him doing good things,” he said, when asked about his survival strategy. “I just try to be authentic, be honest. I’m authentic. I’m not just trying to sell them a line of BS in order to win a seat.

“President Trump was right to say if he was on the ballot and if other people fought, stood by him more aggressively, we would have better outcomes.”

Constantino’s brand of political confrontation included ripping reporters as “a–holes” and “scumbags” in his victory night speech and partnering with political “prince of darkness” Roger Stone, who helped persuade him to run.

“I give him a lot of credit. He saw me as a person that had no political experience and but built a great company,” Constantino said.

Asked why he teed off on a pair of TV reporters during his moment of triumph, Constantino explained: “They deleted two of my interviews, put up a fake transcript, and then when I started, you know, criticizing the guy crossed his arms and tried to stare me down … I have to be mindful of security in an event. And just because you’re a reporter doesn’t mean you’re not an unstable person.

“You are an a–hole if you’re going around calling other people a–holes for no reason,” he continued, blasting an article about his affiliation with Stone. “I think the biggest drag in the race was the evil media.”

Constantino defeated Democratic challenger dairy farmer Blake Gendebien by about 6,000 votes, 51-49, in the 21st Congressional District that Trump carried by 20 points when his predecessor Rep. Elise Stefanik was on the ballot. Gendebien conceded Friday.

Constantino self-funded his race, spending $17 million out of his pocket. But he doesn’t know if he’ll self-fund a 2028 re-election campaign.

He spoke about his decision to hire private eyes to investigate his opponent, initially to chase down an unconfirmed allegation, then to chase a rumor of illegal dumping.

“So we originally did a drone flight to look for, you know, look for dead cows, and then we found this giant dump site,” he said of Gendebien’s farm. Gendebien denied the allegation and said he was cleared by the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation.

Constantino blasted Republican gubernatorial nominee Bruce Blakeman, who ended up getting trounced by Gov. Kathy Hochul, despite earlier hopes of peeling away disgruntled Democrats downstate.

“They just go to political dinners with other political people and they talk to high propensity Republicans,” he said of party officials. “Bruce Blakeman should have done what I did: go out and meet regular people … But he just went to political dinners. All they want to do is go to dinner, and pat each other on the back and eat food with donor money.”

He said his advice to Blakeman went nowhere.

“I gave him advice and they told me they don’t want to listen to me,” he said – on a day Blakeman unloaded on Stefanik for failing to “lift a finger” to help other Republicans after she ripped his campaign.

Blakeman slammed Constantino, who had online compared him to a “headless chicken.”

“Anthony Constantino was by far the worst candidate I ever encountered. I ran way ahead of him in his District and if it weren’t for me he wouldn’t have won. See you in two years, pal,” Blakeman posted on X.

Constantino said Stefanik would have performed better: “She’s very smart, and she would run a different race. And I think you know I think she would have done better.”

He said he plans to ask Republican leaders to put him on the House Oversight Committee, where Democrats are already warning unnamed targets to “lawyer up.”

With fellow New Yorkers — House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer — set to assume leadership when Constantino is sworn in alongside self-described New York socialist Darializa Chevalier, the MAGA warrior said he’ll focus on trying to persuade his Democratic opponents rather than simply attacking them.

“I can talk to anybody. I don’t even mind talking to them and telling them why their ideas are bad,” he said of incoming socialists.

By – https://nypost.com/2026/11/07/us-news/constantino-says-standing-by-trump-spared-him-dem-wave/

“If there’s one thing I’ve learned in politics, it’s that when you win, it’s never as good as it seems.” Rogan O’Handley (DCDraino on X).

Half the country is doing an end-zone war dance, the other half is scratching its weary head. That was some election! But you know what? The numbers are a little. . . queer. I mean queer in the old-school sense. Peculiar. Puzzling. Kind of. . . fishy. . . maybe statistically impossible?

What I think happened: Democratic Party election ninja Marc Elias knocked himself out for two years registering new voters by the bale, as in manufacturing them. . . illegal aliens. . . homeless junkies. . . straight-up fictitious persons. . . in order to flood the zone with fake mail-in ballots, that is, in-your-face fraud. And the reason these finaglers did it was so that when the fraud was detected and announced, they could run the next play — which I have laid out in several previous blogs — namely their well-planned color revolution.

That is, to dare the president to do something about the in-your-face fraud, and when he does, to activate riots, which the president would respond to, and when he does, declare him to be illegitimate, a tyrant, and attempt to transfer federal authority to a panel of state governors. That’s their play, declared overtly and explicitly by a gang of Dem Party aligned NGO capos on recorded Zoom calls this past year. They are all remnants of the defunct USAID, the very officials who carried out color revolutions for years against Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, and other sovereign states.

The reason that the Democrats went all-in on yet another national election fraud is because the party had evolved into nothing more than a criminal enterprise, a colossal racketeering operation and the ongoing cover-up of their activities was unraveling badly. For instance, a most blatantly obvious case, Minnesota, where Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan was implicated in assisting Governor Tim Walz’s involvement in Somali public health fraud, as well as running a Signal chat comms group that coordinated anti-ICE riots in Minneapolis last winter. On Tuesday, Flanagan defeated challenger Michele Tafoya by ten percentage points for a seat in the US Senate, where she will join the Trump impeachment crew. She should be in a federal court with Mr. Walz, charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States. 

Many Dem partisans are guilty of serious crimes and are liable for prosecution. They are desperate to capture as many government positions as possible to block any path leading to that outcome. Since the Constitution assigns election management to the states, it was crucial for the color revolutionists to gain control of the states’ election apparatus in this midterm election. Of course, under the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution (Article VI, Clause 2) federal law can override conflicting state laws or constitutions. This has been litigated all year long, especially in the DOJ’s demands to inspect state voter rolls, which several blue states refused to submit to. The question had not been settled before the midterms.

Wouldn’t you suppose that the DOJ will use AI (or SI) to match all the new voter registrations to actual persons who cast ballots? This is the kind of tedious and exacting task that used to take human workers months to accomplish, but can now be done in a day’s work. We’ll know soon enough just how fake the election was. The Democratic Party (and not a few RINOs) will denounce the discovery as “election denialism,” like they did the last several cycles. It’s not going to stick this time. Too many Americans are alert to their shenanigans. When that tactic fails, they’ll call out the Antifas and the jihadis to make a giant ruckus, and that’s when the main act of the color revolution plays out.

Make no mistake about it, a color revolution will amount to an insurrection. And under the Insurrection Act of 1807 (10 U.S.C. §§ 251–255) the president can deploy the armed forces (or call the National Guard into federal service) to restore civil order. President Eisenhower deployed the 101^st Airborne in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957 to desegregate the schools. President Kennedy invoked the Insurrection Act three times during the Civil Rights unrest of 1962-63 in Alabama and Mississippi.

It is looking a little bit as if the president set a trap for these birds, daring them to try another rigged election. He has acted like Mr. Conviviality since Nov. 3, offering best wishes to the winners as the final numbers slowly spool out. Mr. Trump is a well-seasoned actor, of course, and his role for the moment is Cheshire Cat.

Stand by to see if this battle is joined — I think it will be. We’re entering an exceptionally sketchy several months of US history ahead. The Democrats have been flamboyantly talking shit about how they will punish and persecute anyone ever associated with the president. I think they will be most ruefully disappointed. Their primary target for the moment is Secretary of War Hegseth, for the obvious reason that he directs the armed forces. They won’t succeed in taking him off the game-board. And they won’t win the game, either.

One overlooked highpoint of Tuesday’s midterm elections, was the victory of Anthony Constantino in New York’s 21st Congressional District. Constantino will now succeed Rep. Elise Stefanik to represent the largest Congressional District in the state of New York.

From day one of his campaign, Constantino has cemented himself as a champion of President Trump’s Make America Great Again agenda. The Sticker Mule CEO’s first major public foray into the political arena was erecting a massive “Vote for Trump” sign atop his tallest factory building in upstate New York.

Constantino was endorsed by President Trump, who wrote:

“It is my Great Honor to endorse America First Patriot, Anthony Constantino, who is running to represent the wonderful people of New York’s 21st Congressional District. Anthony has been such a Great Supporter that he actually put up a somewhat “controversial” sign, against strong opposition, in my honor. The sign is still there!”

On Monday, Vice President JD Vance hosted a rally in his district, urging Republicans to vote for him, stating that he will “make a great Congressman for the 21st District.”

Democrats fought hard to stop his victory, dumping millions of dollars to push his hand-picked radical Democrat opponent.

Constantino entirely self-funded his campaign, making his slogan “Nobody’s Man But Yours” all the more fitting.

In a recent Economist/YouGov Poll, conducted from October 23 to October 26, Democratic respondents said they prefer socialism over capitalism when asked which is the better economic system.

Breitbart reports that when respondents were asked to identify what they believe is a better economic system, capitalism or socialism, 38 percent of Democrats chose socialism as the better economic system, compared to 25 percent who chose capitalism.

In contrast, the wider public strongly favored capitalism, with 51 percent selecting it as the better system, 20 percent choosing socialism, and 29 percent unsure, according to Newsweek.

Opinions varied drastically along party lines with 79 percent of Republicans saying capitalism is better, compared to five percent who said socialism.

The survey of 1,440 respondents, comes as Democrats are dealing with an internal war between “moderate” Democrats and those who openly identify as socialist, including members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).

Democrat candidates are proudly displaying the socialist banner with Colorado Democratic congressional candidate Melat Kiros claiming there is actually nothing more American than socialism.

In an interview on PBS’s Firing Line with Margaret Hoover, Kiros stated:

I don’t think there’s anything more American than subscribing to an economic philosophy that, as the evidence shows, is the only one that’s actually capable of delivering things like life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

When pressed on whether socialism delivers on the values of the Declaration of Independence better than capitalism does, Kiros answered with an emphatic “Yes.”

A separate CBS News/YouGov Poll conducted earlier in the year, from August 12 to August 14, 2026, showed a similar partisan divide regarding favorability with 58 percent of Democrats saying they viewed socialism positively, while only 32 percent viewed capitalism positively., according to The Hill.

In addition, a Fox News Poll published on October 31, 2026, highlighted shifting economic perspectives among younger demographics with 48 percent of Americans aged 18 to 34 viewing socialism favorably, driven largely by economic concerns regarding affordability and the rising cost of living.

Breitbart reports that there has been backlash to the socialist ideals and leftist extremism in other areas of the U.S. with Detroit City Council member Mary Waters telling MS Now  there is a “disconnect” in the Democratic Party as they embrace socialist ideals.

Waters said, “Democrats really don’t even understand black people. They are allowing the socialists, the Democratic socialists, to run this party — to run it and to ruin it.”

By – https://amgreatness.com/2026/11/03/survey-more-democrats-say-they-choose-socialism-over-capitalism/

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