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Congressional correspondent, New York Times. Co-author of the NYT besteller "Mad House.” https://t.co/65LGhXtS9F

Sep 27, 2024, 5 tweets

Wives are hitting the airwaves across the country.

via me and ⁦@CatieEdmondson⁩

And at least one candidate is even filming footage with family-like tableaus and holiday card poses with women and kids who not their relatives… nytimes.com/2024/09/27/us/…

None of these people are related to the candidate in a tight Virginia house race, Derrick Anderson.

There’s also this.

A spokesman for Mr. Anderson criticized The New York Times’s decision to focus on the footage and said that “Derrick’s opponent and every other candidate in America are in similar pictures and video with supporters of all kinds.”

The spokesman said the video simply showed Mr. Anderson “with female supporters and their kids.”

More here, including a cheeky twist on a Wife Ad, where a husband who has reached his limit for hearing his candidate wife talk about taxes, hurls himself out of a moving car.

nytimes.com/2024/09/27/us/…

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