Childless GOP Candidate Borrows Family for Weird Photo Shoot
Source: Daily Beast
Updated Sep. 28, 2024 10:32AM EDT / Published Sep. 28, 2024 10:25AM EDT
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 Virginias 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.
A spokesman for Anderson criticized The New York Times for focusing on the footage and said that Derricks opponent and every other candidate in America are in similar pictures and video with supporters of all kinds. The spokesman said the video simply showed Anderson with female supporters and their kids.
However, comments by vice presidential candidate JD Vance making fun of childless cat ladies and a push by Republicans to roll back abortion rights have not been popular with the electorate. In 2022, Anderson praised the Supreme Courts decision to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision that provided women with abortion access, saying SCOTUS finally got it right. His decision to pose with a family that was not his own was widely mocked on social media.
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VA-7 is Abigail Spanberger's (D) seat. Over a dozen years ago (under different boundaries), it used to be Eric Cantor's (R) seat.
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New: Republican candidate for Congress Derrick Anderson posed for photos with the wife and children of one of his friends, apparently to appear like they are his family.
They are not his family.
https://nytimes.com/2024/09/27/us/politics/republican-candidates-wives-ads.html
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Dear @JDVance: You said that people without children dont really have a direct stake in our country. Do you think that applies to GOP candidate Derrick Anderson, who doesnt have children but is trying to mislead voters by renting a family in his pictures? Asking for a friend.
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None of these people are related to the candidate in a tight Virginia house race, Derrick Anderson.
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WhiteTara
(30,201 posts)Say anything, do anything to grab at the golden ring.
JustAnotherGen
(33,733 posts)Last edited Sat Sep 28, 2024, 04:08 PM - Edit history (1)
Like posting a fake family?
His opponent Eugene Vindman!
I don't care what Vindman's opponent's sorry assed excuse is - its fucking weird!
chouchou
(1,368 posts)I'd be so embarrassed, I'd hide my ass just for being an idiot.
Plus this "You...you want us to do what?"
not fooled
(6,092 posts)"We're just showing you artfully posed pictures of our candidate with what might be his wife and daughters. If you leap to that conclusion, it's on you. And, if you think his being married with children makes him a more appealing candidate, that's also on you."
GQPee claims to have no intent to pull off yet another con on voters.
Geez.
IronLionZion
(47,049 posts)in their fake version of what they consider normal.
Hekate
(95,066 posts)Grins
(7,921 posts)And they agreed to that? Thought that would not roll-back on them? On school age children?
BumRushDaShow
(143,528 posts)called them a "rented family".
Vinca
(51,165 posts)SupportSanity
(1,163 posts)SCantiGOP
(14,296 posts)He had a pamphlet titled Family Values the first time he ran for US Senate. It has a picture of Lindsey and who naturally were assumed to be his wife and two children.
When questioned, his staff said the picture was not misleading, since it said Family and it was his sister and her two children in the photo.
LeftInTX
(30,341 posts)Didn't he and his sister run the "Sanitary Cafe" together?
ETA: Looking it up again. He became his sister's legal guardian after his parents died. I guess this would be an acceptable photo in local elections, but for US senate maybe have an explanation about why they are in the picture.
SCantiGOP
(14,296 posts)But the picture was a result of his wanting to counter homophobic questions about why he had never married or had a girlfriend.
The S.C. Democratic Party has never used that in a campaign. The only time it has been raised was by super-MAGA types from other states angry over some of his more moderate stances.
NBachers
(18,169 posts)I sent Eugene Vindman a donation to help him get elected over this weird republican creep.
Hekate
(95,066 posts)Quanto Magnus
(1,024 posts)I wouldn't send any animals... they might eat them.
LeftInTX
(30,341 posts)FakeNoose
(35,914 posts)Also he's got a dog, the dog could have certainly appeared in the photo.
LudwigPastorius
(10,963 posts)he doesn't have to spend the day watching football in his underwear and wolfing down Purina Bachelor Chow.