United States 2026 · Every advertiser

David Bedey

This page ran 8 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 5 May 2026 and 26 May 2026. Meta reports $1.1–1.9K of spend, which makes it the 11,681st largest advertiser of the 24,034 pages in our data. Advertiser type: Candidate. Most of its spend was on the Republicans’ side. Race: State. Paid for by Bedey for Senate District 43.

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 ↗

8

ads

$1.5K

reported spend, range $1.1–1.9K

0.0%

of spend on federal races

$150

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
13%
Promotional
88%

Share of the 8 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.

Most attacked

  • MTGOP establishment and Art Wittich$350

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

Topics

Economy & cost of living
88%
Electoral process & turnout
13%
Corruption & governance
13%

Spend by race: State 100%.

Spend by ad language: English 100%.

The costliest ads

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

  • David Bedey will cut our taxes, balance Montana’s budget, and put Ravalli County first.

    5 May 2026 · David Bedey · $500 – $599 · 25K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • Since last October, almost 30 mailers attacking my voting record have landed in your mailboxes. Montana is at a political crossroads. Across the state, independent-minded Republican candidates like me are under attack by a MTGOP establishment that is no longer recognizable as being Republican. The results of the primary election will be telling. We can either deal a blow to extremists like Art Wittich, or we can submit to the hyper-partisanship that is destroying our country. It is time to choo

    25 May 2026 · David Bedey · $300 – $399 · 20K+ 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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David Bedey: political ads on Facebook and Instagram before the 2026 US midterms · Vipima