Derrick Anderson is running for office in Virginia. He's using a video of himself posing with a family for his campaign. The family isn't his.

The sentiment in Republican politics that childless Americans are — as JD Vance put it — disorienting and disturbing has become so prevalent that one GOP candidate has taken to borrowing his friends’ wife and children for photo ops.

Derrick Anderson, a special forces veteran who is the Republican nominee in Virginia's 7th congressional district, was recently caught using his friend's family as props in campaign footage. The New York Times reported Friday that there's actually more to an image of Anderson circulated by the National Republican Congressional Committee that