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John Erickson for State Senate
This page ran 87 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 6 May 2026 and 17 October 2026. Meta reports $57.6–74.3K of spend, which makes it the 1,024th 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 John Erickson 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 ↗
87
ads
$66K
reported spend, range $57.6–74.3K
0.0%
of spend on federal races
$350
median spend per ad
Spend by week the ad started
Tone
Share of the 80 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.
Most attacked
- Brian Goldsmith$3.5K
- Big Tobacco and billionaire special interests$1.6K
- committees opposing West Hollywood City Councilmember John Erickson and supporting other candidates in Senate District 24$950
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 92%, Spanish 2.1%.
The costliest ads
The highest-spend ad of each distinct text, as it ran.
For a safer, more affordable California—for all.
18 September 2026 · John Erickson for State Senate · $6–7K · 900K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
Brian Goldsmith’s dad is trying to buy his son a State Senate seat. Heidi, a resident, breaks it down:
31 May 2026 · John Erickson for State Senate · $3–3.5K · 125K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
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30 May 2026 · John Erickson for State Senate · $2–2.5K · 35K+ impressions · Ad Library
John Erickson is a new kind of Democratic leader for State Senate: courageous and effective to protect our rights, lower costs, and meet the moment.
27 May 2026 · John Erickson for State Senate · $2–2.5K · 45K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
John Erickson is the Democrat endorsed by teachers, nurses, and firefighters because they know he’ll stand up to Trump, lower costs, and fight for working families in the State Senate.
14 May 2026 · John Erickson for State Senate · $2–2.5K · 80K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
Billionaires attacking me? We must be doing something right. #teamerickson
9 May 2026 · John Erickson for State Senate · $1–1.5K · 100K+ 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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