“The attack ad in Virginia’s most competitive congressional race starts off like something out of a sitcom,” the Washington Post reports.
“An actor resembling Derrick Anderson, a Republican looking to flip Virginia’s battleground 7th district, comes home to greet life-size cardboard cutouts of a woman and three young girls. The stand-in Anderson eats dinner with the pictures, plays board games across the table from them and then joins them to watch a movie.”
“It was a biting callout to an image that has dogged the former Army Green Beret for the past month: Anderson, who recently got engaged and does not have kids, shot campaign footage this year that showed him posing with the wife and three daughters of a friend — a scene that critics pounced on as giving the false impression he was the patriarch of the nuclear family.”
