'Can't make this up': Cardboard cutouts used to mock GOP candidate over 'fake family' pics

A GOP congressional candidate in Virginia is the subject of a new ad featuring cardboard cutouts to ridicule “fake family” members he posed with in campaign footage made public last month.

“Don’t be fooled by fake Derrick Anderson,” the ad’s narrator says in the 30-second spot as an actor spoofing the Virginia House candidate is seen playing what appears to be a fake game of Monopoly.

The Democratic group House Majority PAC released the ad Thursday, according to Politico. It portrays Anderson living with cardboard cutouts as they sit at the dinner table, throw a frisbee in the yard and play board games.

Anderson, a former Green Beret who is engaged with no children, was exposed as posing with a woman and three children of a longtime friend in his campaign materials, according to the New York Times. The images appeared on his YouTube page and on the Republican National Committee website.

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“Hilarious!!!... Fake family guy Derrick Anderson does not reflect the values of Virginia's 7th district,” his Democratic opponent Alexander Vindman wrote on X.

Marc Broklawski, an official with the Democratic Party of Virginia, said in a social media post that the ad “is next-level hilarious.”

“Derrick Anderson’s ‘rent-a-family’ bit, complete with cardboard cutouts? It’s like something out of a sitcom, but sadly, it’s real life. Dude literally borrowed a family to hide his extreme anti-abortion views — can’t make this stuff up! Broklawski wrote on X.