Seems like GOP candidates realize they may have an issue with women voters, so they’re turning to their wives for help. You’ve probably seen their ads, showing off their trophy wives and children, promising to end “woke defund the police” policies and promising to keep YOUR families safe.
Well, it didn’t quite work out that way for one GOP congressional candidate in Virginia…
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The campaign of Derrick Anderson, a former Army Green Beret who is running in a competitive race for an open seat in Virginia’s Seventh District, has posted footage of him posing with a woman and her three daughters in what looks like a photo that might be used for an annual holiday card. In another scene filmed for potential use in a campaign ad, Mr. Anderson is seated around the dining room table with the same woman and three girls, chatting and smiling.
But the people are not relatives. They are the wife and children of a longtime friend. Mr. Anderson, who announced this month that he was engaged, does not have any children of his own. His campaign website says he lives with his dog and does not display any of the photos.
A spokesman for Mr. Anderson criticized The New York Times’s decision to focus on the footage and said that “Derrick’s 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 Mr. Anderson “with female supporters and their kids.”
The footage has not yet been used in any ad. It can be found on Mr. Anderson’s official YouTube page and is also posted on a website paid for by the National Republican Campaign Committee, where the organization provides resources for independent outside groups that are not allowed to communicate directly with campaigns but can use the information posted there to guide their paid media strategy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/27/...-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb (gift link)
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So am I the only here who thinks this is extremely insulting to voters/the public at large? Sure, the candidate may not be using this footage in any official campaign ad and they haven’t lied about their marital status…but they’re just gonna film this footage and throw it out there for the vicious PACs to use and claim “oh I had nothing to do with that”.
I dunno, I guess after George Santos, nothing should really surprise me anymore, but I’m disappointed that the GOP is proving to be entirely a party of charlatans.
Well, it didn’t quite work out that way for one GOP congressional candidate in Virginia…
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The campaign of Derrick Anderson, a former Army Green Beret who is running in a competitive race for an open seat in Virginia’s Seventh District, has posted footage of him posing with a woman and her three daughters in what looks like a photo that might be used for an annual holiday card. In another scene filmed for potential use in a campaign ad, Mr. Anderson is seated around the dining room table with the same woman and three girls, chatting and smiling.
But the people are not relatives. They are the wife and children of a longtime friend. Mr. Anderson, who announced this month that he was engaged, does not have any children of his own. His campaign website says he lives with his dog and does not display any of the photos.
A spokesman for Mr. Anderson criticized The New York Times’s decision to focus on the footage and said that “Derrick’s 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 Mr. Anderson “with female supporters and their kids.”
The footage has not yet been used in any ad. It can be found on Mr. Anderson’s official YouTube page and is also posted on a website paid for by the National Republican Campaign Committee, where the organization provides resources for independent outside groups that are not allowed to communicate directly with campaigns but can use the information posted there to guide their paid media strategy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/27/...-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb (gift link)
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So am I the only here who thinks this is extremely insulting to voters/the public at large? Sure, the candidate may not be using this footage in any official campaign ad and they haven’t lied about their marital status…but they’re just gonna film this footage and throw it out there for the vicious PACs to use and claim “oh I had nothing to do with that”.
I dunno, I guess after George Santos, nothing should really surprise me anymore, but I’m disappointed that the GOP is proving to be entirely a party of charlatans.