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Brian Goldsmith for State Senate

This page ran 69 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 1 May 2026 and 26 October 2026. Meta reports $224.9–280.9K of spend, which makes it the 297th largest advertiser of the 24,034 pages in our data. Advertiser type: Candidate. Most of its spend took no side. Race: State. Paid for by Brian Goldsmith for State Senate 2026.

Data from the Meta Ad Library, pulled 4 November 2026. Election on 3 November 2026. · Every ad of this page in Meta’s Ad Library ↗

69

ads

$252.9K

reported spend, range $224.9–280.9K

0.0%

of spend on federal races

$1.7K

median spend per ad

Spend by week the ad started

4 May
1 Jun
6 Jul
3 Aug
7 Sep
5 Oct
 Spend still counting
2 Nov

Tone

Attack
8.2%
Promotional
92%

Share of the 49 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.

Most attacked

  • Donald Trump$18.7K

Targets as the ads name them, by spend; the spellings of Donald Trump are counted together, other names as written.

Topics

Candidate profile
49%
Corruption & governance
49%
Economy & cost of living
27%
Health
22%
Security, crime & immigration
16%
Infrastructure & energy
14%
Social protection
10%
Education
10%

Spend by race: State 100%.

Spend by ad language: English 73%.

The costliest ads

The highest-spend ad of each distinct text, as it ran.

  • Californians deserve common sense solutions, including housing and healthcare that first responders, nurses and teachers can afford. Sacramento needs more accountability. I’ll demand that we stop wasting money on failing programs so we can invest more in what actually works.

    18 September 2026 · Brian Goldsmith for State Senate · $25–30K · 1M+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • Brian Goldsmith is the leader we deserve who will fight for lower costs, safer communities, and better schools.

    16 May 2026 · Brian Goldsmith for State Senate · $15–20K · 1M+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • Redondo Beach Councilmember Paige Kaluderovic supports Brian Goldsmith because we need common sense solutions to the homelessness crisis. Redondo Beach has reached functional zero on homelessness. When Paige invited Brian to the city's homeless court, he came to listen and learn what's actually working. Brian will bring that approach to Sacramento: find the programs that get people housed, expand them, and make the state accountable for every dollar it spends on homelessness. "Brian is the on

    23 October 2026 · Brian Goldsmith for State Senate · $10–15K · 600K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • Californians need common-sense solutions and Sacramento needs more accountability. I’ll demand that we stop spending money on failing programs so that we can invest more in mental health and treatment and enforce public camping bans.

    18 September 2026 · Brian Goldsmith for State Senate · $10–15K · 400K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • I’m running for State Senate to stop Trump and fight for the common sense solutions that California families deserve. These are serious times. We are dealing with the most corrupt president in our history. We also face an affordability crisis that Sacramento is failing to confront.

    1 October 2026 · Brian Goldsmith for State Senate · $9–10K · 350K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • There’s a lot of understandable concern when it comes to data centers. That’s why in Sacramento, I’ll make sure to put the people of Southern California first rather than AI special interests.

    30 September 2026 · Brian Goldsmith for State Senate · $9–10K · 500K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

Figures cover domestic political ads paid in dollars, from 4 May 2026. Spend is the sum of Meta’s range midpoints; impressions above one million are reported as “1M+”, so impression figures are floors. Each ad counts in the week its delivery started, with its lifetime spend at our last pull; ads still running before the vote are counted as of 31 October 2026.

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