During the Election Night victory speech of Rep-elect Anthony Constantino (R-NY), he repeatedly referred to present members of the press as “f**king a**holes,” while a young girl listened in-person near his podium.
Constantino, the CEO of Sticker Mule, invested $17 million of his own money to help win his race with President Donald Trump’s endorsement. In a night when Democrats overwhelmingly beat Republican candidates nationwide, Constantino beat his Democratic opponent, Blake Gendebien, by just 5,250 votes (or 1.9% of the total vote).
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“It should have been a 20- or 30-point victory,” Constantinto said during his victory speech, “but [the media] spent the whole time lying to the citizens of NY-21 about who Blake Gendebien [is], who I am, to make me spend $17 million of my own money. So, let me explain something to all of you. How would you like to spend $17 million, because you guys are a bunch of lying a**holes?”
“My consultants are a little stressed out right now,” Constantino continued. “They’re like, ‘We’ve never heard this before.’ It’s okay. It’s a new day in America. I’m somebody who gets results for people. The politicians often don’t get results. Donald Trump gets results. Elon Musk gets results. I’m somebody who gets results,” said Constantino
Trump’s endless Iranian war and expensive economy were widely blamed for Republicans’ losses during the national midterm. Musk, a white supremacist sympathizer, unsuccessfully spent $224 million in Texas to elect Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton and re-elect Gov. Greg Abbott — both lost their races by significant margins.
The satiric news program The Daily Show noted that a little girl was standing nearby during Constantinto’s speech.
Constantino has moonlighted as a rapper and stand-up comic. One of his comedic bits referenced supporters of failed Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris vomiting before and after he put his penis in their mouths, Mother Jones noted.
Constantino ended his victory speech by saying that the president should consider “freeing” the hip-hop star Sean “Diddy” Combs, who was convicted last year of trafficking women for prostitution.
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