Female Candidates Breastfeed Children In Campaign Ads
The campaign ads represent one way that women are increasingly willing to break the mold of the standard candidate, in a year with record numbers of women running for office.
by Danielle Kurtzleben
Mar 23, 2018
2 minutes
In recent years, candidates have tried all kinds of strategies to make attention-getting campaign ads. Throwing a large rock into a pond. Assembling a gun blindfolded. Talking to donkeys.
In two new political ads, however, candidates try something decidedly more commonplace: Breastfeeding their children.
One ad opens on Maryland Democratic gubernatorial candidate Krish Vignarajah breastfeeding her baby and talking about the lack of women in
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