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Joe de la Cruz for State Senate
This page ran 8 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 15 September 2026 and 23 October 2026. Meta reports $4.4–6.4K of spend, which makes it the 6,232nd 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 JoeforCT - Joe de la Cruz for 18th State Senate.
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
$5.4K
reported spend, range $4.4–6.4K
0.0%
of spend on federal races
$500
median spend per ad
Spend by week the ad started
Tone
Share of the 8 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.
Most attacked
- Heather Somers$2.3K
Targets as the ads name them, by spend; the spellings of Donald Trump are counted together, other names as written.
Topics
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.
As State Representative, Joe de la Cruz worked with both parties to raise the minimum wage, cut taxes for middle-class families, and bring funding home to local schools. He's running for State Senate to keep working across the aisle for Connecticut.
15 September 2026 · Joe de la Cruz for State Senate · $1.5–2K · 80K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
Connecticut said no to giant data centers. Heather Somers still backs tax breaks to bring them here. Who pays for the new power lines? You do, on your electric bill. Joe de la Cruz will put families before Big Tech.
23 October 2026 · Joe de la Cruz for State Senate · $1–1.5K · 60K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
I’m Joe de la Cruz—retired union tradesman, small-business owner, and avid bowler. I’ll lower healthcare and prescription costs, take on Eversource, and fund our schools— because everything costs too damn much. Let’s knock those costs down.
2 October 2026 · Joe de la Cruz for State Senate · $1–1.5K · 80K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
Heather Somers supports the Donald Trump MAGA agenda that has been driving up gas and pharmaceutical prices, threatening abortion rights, and forcing people to pay higher healthcare premiums. She shares the dangerous anti-vaccination stances of RFK Jr. and Trump’s health department that put our kids and public health at risk while cases of previously nearly eradicated diseases are on the rise. As an independent voice in the State Senate, Joe de la Cruz work with both parties to find commonse
2 October 2026 · Joe de la Cruz for State Senate · $600 – $699 · 30K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Republicans like Heather Somers are forcing families to pay higher healthcare premiums, with some paying twice or three times as much to see their doctor. I’m Joe de la Cruz. I’ll lower healthcare and prescription costs because Connecticut families already pay too much.
23 October 2026 · Joe de la Cruz for State Senate · $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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