Entrepreneur who lost millions for backing Trump now self-funding a campaign to succeed Elise Stefanik

Anthony Constantino believes publicly backing Donald Trump cost his company tens of millions of dollars.In fact, the founder and CEO of Sticker Mule told me an internal audit showed his custom printing company, based in Upstate New York, lost as much as $50 million in revenue after he endorsed Trump in 2024.But rather than be cowed by the backlash, it pushed Constantino to fight back harder.“This situation in America is never going to get better if somebody doesn’t power through on this and just not back down,” he said.Now the 43-year-old CEO is headed to the general election after clinching the Republican primary in the 21st Congressional District, which will be vacated by Elise Stefanik — and he is self-funding his entire multimillion-dollar campaign.“I want to be self-funding to be an independent-minded person … able to do everything that’s right,” Constantino explained of the decision to shell out millions on the congressional bid.That self-financing has allowed him to focus on the topics he cares most about — namely, reshoring American manufacturing.While Constantino is embracing politics now, that was never the plan. In 2016 he bought MAGA Christmas ornaments for his mother’s elderly neighbors in Florida.Because the purchase was treated as a campaign donation, a left-wing influencer publicized it.

Sticker Mule became, in Constantino’s telling, one of the first companies to face a full-scale cancellation over Trump support.“Tens of thousands of Democrats were writing us hate mail,” he recalled.“We just woke up one day and it was like all hell broke loose … You never had a day where 10,000 people tell you they hate you, they’re going to destroy your company.”That experience made Constantino more invested in speaking up; after the 2024 assassination attempt on Trump, he felt compelled to be more assertive — and sent an email to his company’s mailing list, endorsing the former president.“Donald Trump got shot.

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