It looks like a family holiday card except that the woman and children posing with Republican Derrick Anderson are not his wife or his offspring.

Anderson, who running in a close race for Virginia’s seventh congressional district, was seen in another image seated around the dining table with the same woman and three girls.

The images came to light in an article by The New York Times, headlined “G.O.P. Candidates, Looking to Soften Their Image, Turn to Their Wives,” which reported how “male Republicans struggling to appeal to female voters concerned about their records on reproductive rights are unleashing their spouses to make the pitch on their behalf.”

However Anderson, who is childless, engaged to be married and lives alone with his dog, sought to borrow the wife and children from a longtime friend in an apparent effort to appear as a family man.


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  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    These idiots don’t understand that the internet is a thing that exists despite using it constantly.

    “No one will ever find out that I don’t actually have a family.”

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      They also don’t know how photographs, cameras, video and audio recording works. They still have a VCR that blinks 12:00 plugged in. O_o

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      Best and brightest.

      Republicans have to continually poke fingers at others to detract from their own significant shortcomings.

    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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      The problem isn’t that people will find out. It’s that 99% of their voters are too stupid to think critically about the people they vote for.