New Delhi: An American politician is being called out for excluding his Indian-origin wife from a fundraising ad on X. Brandon Gill, the US representative who is running for re-election in Texas’ 26th District, received sharp backlash after a screenshot of the ad went viral.
“You can call me any name you want. I just want my children to grow up in a country that they recognize. Every parent & grandparent needs to read this,” read the post.
The ad was a response to critics calling Brandon racist after he advocated more ‘deportation, denaturalisation, and remigration’. The accompanying photo featured him holding his two children, but his wife, Danielle Gill, was notably absent.
“Hiding your Indian wife in campaign ads is crazy work,” wrote content creator Jared Shult in a quote retweet on 6 July.
Danielle (31), daughter of Right-wing commentator Dinesh D’Souza, is an author and commentator. Her bio on X reads: “On an American adventure with the love of my life @repbrandongill and our two little ones.”
D’Souza was born in Mumbai and received his BA in English from Dartmouth College. In 2014, he was sentenced to five years of probation, with eight months to be served in a community confinement centre, after he pled guilty to making illegal contributions to a US Senate campaign in the names of others.
Danielle married Brandon in 2017.
You can call me any name you want.
I just want my children to grow up in a country that they recognize.
Every parent & grandparent needs to read this.
— Brandon Gill (@realBrandonGill) July 2, 2026
A Christian MAGA patriot
Brandon clarified that he had uploaded three posts on the same day, but his critics highlighted the only one that did not feature Danielle.
But it’s not the first time Danielle has featured in criticism against the Texan politician. When the politician called NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani ‘uncivilised’ for eating rice with his hands and asked him to “go back to the Third World”, people on X pointed out that Brandon had married an Indian-origin woman.
“Your wife is South Indian. She grew up eating rice with her hands,” wrote X user Karthik.
Danielle was quick to distance herself from her heritage.
“I did not grow up eating rice with my hands and have always used a fork. I was born in America. I’m a Christian MAGA patriot. My father’s extended family lives in India and they are also Christian and they use forks too,” she wrote.
People replied to the post with photos of her parents eating Indian food by hand.
Earlier this week, British-American journalist Mehdi Hassan also attacked Brandon by posting a photo of him with his wife and in-laws after the representative called for deportation and remigration.
Do we start with your wife and in laws? https://t.co/CXQoy5aQmg pic.twitter.com/5WuFcs5D50
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) July 1, 2026
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