Dangerous Darren Bailey

This page ran 174 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 20 August 2026 and 23 October 2026. Meta reports $578.5–717.6K of spend, which makes it the 112th largest advertiser of the 24,034 pages in our data. Advertiser type: Candidate. Most of its spend was on the Democrats’ side. Race: State. Paid for by JB for Governor.

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 ↗

174

ads

$648.1K

reported spend, range $578.5–717.6K

0.0%

of spend on federal races

$1.2K

median spend per ad

Spend by week the ad started

7 Sep

5 Oct

Spend still counting

2 Nov

Tone

Attack

100%

Share of the 174 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.

Most attacked

Darren Bailey$648.1K

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

Topics

Candidate profile

47%

Education

39%

Health

36%

Security, crime & immigration

21%

Economy & cost of living

15%

Jobs & youth

9.2%

Corruption & governance

5.7%

Electoral process & turnout

0.6%

Spend by race: State 100%.

Spend by ad language: English 97%, Spanish 3.3%.

The costliest ads

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

Darren Bailey has some extreme ideas: Women are inferior to men, dinosaurs and humans lived at the same time, and there should be zero regulations when it comes to gun ownership. Darren Bailey is too extreme for our kids and he’s too extreme to lead Illinois.
10 September 2026 · Dangerous Darren Bailey · $60–70K · 1M+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Darren Bailey is nothing but red flags. He opposes abortion, even in cases of rape and incest, and he’s against gay marriage. Swipe left on Darren Bailey.
9 October 2026 · Dangerous Darren Bailey · $30–35K · 1M+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Yes, he really said that. Instead of fighting for the women of Illinois, Darren Bailey compared abortion to the Holocaust. Darren Bailey is too extreme for Illinois.
21 August 2026 · Dangerous Darren Bailey · $25–30K · 1M+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Illinois sigue avanzando, pero Darren Bailey quiere hacernos retroceder. Bailey es simplemente demasiado extremo para Illinois. Apoyó prohibir libros en las escuelas, se opuso a poner límites en los costos de cuidados médicos, y eliminaría las revisiones de antecedentes para comprar armas. Illinois merece líderes que mantengan a nuestro estado avanzando.
2 September 2026 · Dangerous Darren Bailey · $10–15K · 1M+ impressions · Attack · Ad LibrarySpanish
The school that Darren Bailey founded and operated teaches dangerous ideas about slavery. We can’t let Darren Bailey run our schools or our state. His ideas are way too extreme.
10 September 2026 · Dangerous Darren Bailey · $10–15K · 1M+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Darren Bailey opposes LGBTQ rights, women’s rights, and raising the minimum wage in Illinois. We deserve better.
9 October 2026 · Dangerous Darren Bailey · $8–9K · 1M+ impressions · Attack · 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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