From our premium politics newsletter, The Blast: A new ad from Rep. Caroline Harris Davila raises eyebrows in what increasingly appears to be a competitive race.
  • sp3ctr4l
    70•30 days ago

    Ok so now that’s two instances I’ve seen of Republican candidates pretending to have a family to signal to their base this election cycle.

    Stop the Post Truth Future ride, please, I want to get off.

    • @[email protected]
      14•30 days ago

      We get a guy with mental illness playing his alternative reality card for 8 yrs and now this thing that is a mental illness trait has normalized the associated behaviors (though not the belief) for everyone else. How fucked up is that?

      Living in the fevered alternative reality dream of a narcissistic personality disorder for 8 yrs twists everything up.

    • @BrianTheeBiscuiteer
      15•30 days ago

      It’s totally normal to stand among a group of kids and even pick one up and look at them adoringly. I’m not weird, YOU’RE WEIRD!

  • Billiam
    23•30 days ago

    So is she a childless cat lady, or does she think her children aren’t white photogenic enough?

  • @RapidcreekOP
    14•30 days ago

    So I guess the next question would be if the kids are real or AI…

  • Optional
    9•30 days ago

    That’s another thing republiQans do. Now. Apparently.

  • @WoahWoah
    6•30 days ago

    I mean, the video shows her talking at them like a politician. I know it’s important to criticize republicans, and she did pick one up, but this one didn’t seem as obviously misleading as that Virginia guy. She’s talking about what she’s “done” to protect kids, and she has kids in the ad. I don’t think any political ad that has kids in it that aren’t the politicians’ own means they’re pretending to have kids.

    There are plenty of political ads showing politicians hugging kids or interacting with kids that aren’t theirs – Biden and Walz quickly spring to mind. There’s an entire academic journal article on the topic. I think it’s just the super weird Virginia politician thing makes people think otherwise. I don’t think anyone would have blinked about this if it came out before the “can I borrow your wife and kids and take a picture in front of a residential home” thing happened.