Hint- It's a rhetorical question...
So among a raft of GOP politicians attempting to incorporate their family into their campaign ads (and soften their image among female voters) this guy had a pretty bizarre solution in his personal case. He actually "borrowed" the wife and kids of a friend and pretended they were "his family"...
"Anderson, who is 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.”
This cracked me up. Checkout the part of the ad where he's sitting around the kitchen table with his "family"...
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It looks like a family holiday snap, except that the woman and children posing with Republican Derrick Anderson are not his wife or his offspring. Anderson, who is running in a close race for Virginia’s seventh congressional district, was seen in another image seated around the dining table with...
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