Republicans have taken offended by the idea that they are weird – especially when it comes to accusations of being weird towards people (usually women) who don’t have children.

The sentiment in Republican politics that childless Americans are — as J.D. Vance put it — disorienting and disturbing has become so widespread that one Republican candidate has borrowed his friends’ wives and children for photo ops.

This is evident from a Friday report from The New York Times, Derrick Anderson — a former Green Beret running for the Virginia House of Representatives — has repeatedly included a woman and her three daughters in campaign materials.

One photo shows the group posing close together in an image you’d probably find framed on a grandmother’s mantle, the kind of photo your parents let your uncle take with a DSLR camera because “we never take nice pictures together to make.”

In one campaign video, Anderson is seen walking side by side with the same woman. In another video, which appeared on the National Republican Campaign Committee’s website and on its YouTube channel, Anderson is seen speaking to the woman and the three girls as they sit in a home dining room.

According to the Times, the woman and girls are ‘an old friend’s wife and children’. Anderson’s campaign website does not list a wife or children, but notes that he “lives in Spotsylvania County with his dog, Ranger, a Dalmatian.” The Republican candidate recently revealed on social media that he is engaged to his girlfriend Maggie and posted photos of her. She is definitely not the woman seen in the photos and videos.

A spokesperson for Anderson told the newspaper Times that “Derrick’s opponent and every other candidate in America are seen in similar photos and videos with all kinds of supporters,” adding that the content in question simply showed “female supporters and their children.”

It’s weird, but so is the rest of the group.