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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Are you sure this is not satirical? “The Daily Beast” sounds like something a satirical news site would call themselves.
Daily beast is a left wing american news source that can sometimes be somewhat sensationalist but is a genuine source.
I would not rely on them for high quality reporting, but they tend to be okay at getting the facts right.
It’s one of the very few times I’d agree if someone labeled it left. You know, unlike CNN or NBC or any network station.
It’s real:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/27/us/politics/republican-candidates-wives-ads.html
Derrick Anderson, who is running for an open seat in Virginia’s Seventh District, in a photo with the wife and children of a longtime friend.
It’s a center left Web 2.0 / Death of Traditional Journalism outlet, but still credible on a purely factual basis i.e. basic reported facts are probably accurate.
It’s brand of leftism would best be described as progressive Democrat, and their analysis and editorial choices should be understood as primarily coming from those sensibilities and culture affectations e.g. educated, middle class, and a socially/culturally left brand of neoliberalism.
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.
Yep. Pence is the one with lady blinders, like a horse, to protect him from seeing things that might scare and confuse him.
Pence isn’t allowed to be around women that are not his wife in a private setting.
Childless dogman…
It’s just another lying weirdo. How does the GOP find so many of them?
That’s so fucking weird. And bold. Like, even if it wasn’t picked up, wouldn’t people in his community recognize the family? Not one person that would furrow their brow and ask who’s that man with “(Insert Mom’s name) and the girls?”
