MAGA rapper’s $16M House bid teeters in district Trump won by 21 points

A Republican businessman who recorded a 20-track rap album praising President Donald Trump is struggling to keep a deep-red upstate New York House seat in GOP hands.Anthony Constantino, the 43-year-old CEO of Sticker Mule, is running to replace GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik in New York’s 21st District. Trump carried the district by 21 points in 2024, but The Guardian reported that Constantino’s lead has slipped to single digits in recent polls.One survey earlier this month showed him trailing by four points, according to the Guardian, and the Cook Political Report moved the race in September from solid Republican to likely Republican. In early October, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee added the district to its Red to Blue program. Constantino has dismissed unfavorable polling, pointing to an August J.L. Partners survey that showed him up 10 points.His Democratic opponent, dairy farmer Blake Gendebien, says Constantino is out of touch with a...