WASHINGTON -- Virginia GOP congressional candidate Derrick Anderson has issued a warning to his Democratic opponent, Eugene Vindman, over campaign ads accusing Anderson of trying to pass off someone else's wife and three daughters as his own family.

Anderson, who is unmarried and has no children, made national headlines in September after The New York Times discovered his campaign was using footage of him posing with the woman and children in what could easily be mistaken for a family photo shoot, except it turned out to be a friend's family.

One video featuring Anderson with the woman and girls was shared on Anderson's YouTube channel and posted on a website paid for by the National Republican Congressional Committee. In another video his campaign filmed for a possible ad and that was posted on the NRCC-run website, Anderson is shown sitting around a dining room table with the same woman and girls.

On Thursday, Anderson used that footage of him sitting with the woman and her daughters in a new campaign ad focused on abortion. They appear around the 20-second mark.

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