Childless GOP Candidate Borrows Family for Weird Photo Shoot
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Anti-abortion Republican Derrick Anderson, who is running for Virginia’s seventh congressional district, appears to be trying to appeal to women using a bizarre tactic.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20282663

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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  • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
    591·
    5 hours ago

    Yeah seems legit, “party of family values” - let’s rent some women for your photoshoot. I wonder if they consulted Mike Pence’s binders to find them.

      • Hegar@fedia.io
        12·
        5 hours ago

        Yep. Pence is the one with lady blinders, like a horse, to protect him from seeing things that might scare and confuse him.

          • misterdoctor@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            6 minutes ago

            It always bugged me that we never talked about the fact that Pence wouldn’t be alone with non-wife women because apparently every single woman, given time alone with Mike Pence would be unequivocally down to clown. The only question was whether Pence would allow the alone time to happen.