October 23, 2024 11:26 AM UTC

At Least She's Not Your Candidate Pretending to Have Children

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• by: Colorado Pols

In the latest edition of one of our longest-running features, “At Least They’re Not Your Legislator,” we take you to Texas, where a candidate for State Representative is only pretending to have children of her own.

As The Texas Tribune explains, incumbent Republican Rep. Caroline Harris Davila is doing something kinda gross:

For those who did a doubletake watching state Rep. Caroline Harris Davila’s campaign ad this weekend, no, those are not the Davilas’ kids.

The Round Rock Republican on Friday released an ad about protecting kids and improving school lunches, ending with Harris Davila and her husband, Darrell Davila, posing with four children. However, the kids are constituents.

In the ad, Harris Davila says she’s protecting “our future,” and she’s seen patting the smallest of four kids on the back while smiling and talking with the other three.

In the final shot, she picks up that boy while Darrell Davila puts his arm around the second-smallest boy, smiling for the camera.

The idyllic family shot puzzled Capitol watchers who were unaware of that Harris Davila nor Davila, the chief of staff to Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, had children. [Pols emphasis]

That’s because the Davilas do NOT have children of their own. A spokesperson for the Harris Davila campaign told the Tribune that the children featured in the ad are merely “constituents.”

As you can see for yourself, Harris Davila does not explicitly say that the kids surrounding her and her husband are, in fact, their own children. But any casual observer would assuredly come to that conclusion, particularly when one of the closing shots shows Harris Davila holding a kid in her arms.

Perhaps this is what Arizona Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake meant when she talked about “UVF” (instead of “IVF”) during a debate earlier this month. “Unknown Virtual Fertilization”?

We’ll leave the final word to this user on ‘X’ who commented on the Harris Davila ad: