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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    • @fine_sandy_bottom
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      22 months ago

      You must be new here 🤩

      Someone said “people treat childless people as less-than”, and I rebutted them. It doesn’t matter that I may have made some valid points, I didn’t explicitly and breathlessly agree that childless people are treated unfairly, so it’s going to be unpopular.

      Seriously though, almost all of my posts get at least 2 downvotes within 5 minutes. I’ve often wondered if I have a bot following.

      • DominusOfMegadeus
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        12 months ago

        You too?!?! Mine is only one downvote, but it’s on like 75% of my stuff. I thought someone had a vendetta against me, and a lot of free time. Then again, I am a childless cat man, so what do I know? 😂