US: Republican Candidate Posts Fake Family Photos To Win Votes

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.

The @NRCC has used this picture in ads and emails supporting DerrickforVA against Eugene Vindman!

But this isn’t his family. It’s the wife and kids of his friend. This means he is literally using a prop family for campaign ads.