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Karen Battaglia for IL Senate District 32

This page ran 11 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 4 September 2026 and 26 October 2026. Meta reports $39.7–49.5K of spend, which makes it the 1,404th largest advertiser of the 24,034 pages in our data. Advertiser type: Candidate. Most of its spend took no side. Race: State.

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 ↗

11

ads

$44.6K

reported spend, range $39.7–49.5K

0.0%

of spend on federal races

$1.7K

median spend per ad

Spend by week the ad started

7 Sep
5 Oct
 Spend still counting
2 Nov

Tone

Attack
18%
Promotional
82%

Share of the 11 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.

Most attacked

  • Craig Wilcox$2.5K

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

Topics

Corruption & governance
73%
Candidate profile
36%
Security, crime & immigration
27%
Jobs & youth
18%
Electoral process & turnout
9.1%

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.

  • Karen Battaglia has served our community as a frontline healthcare worker. Now she’s ready to serve again in the State Senate. Karen will fight for term limits and get dark money out of politics. It’s time to elect someone who cares about us.

    4 September 2026 · Karen Battaglia for IL Senate District 32 · $15–20K · 800K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • Karen Battaglia will fight for term limits for State House and Senate leaders and ban politicians from working as lobbyists right after they leave office.

    4 September 2026 · Karen Battaglia for IL Senate District 32 · $8–9K · 350K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • Karen Battaglia will fight to get dark money out of politics because government should work for working families, not powerful insiders.

    4 September 2026 · Karen Battaglia for IL Senate District 32 · $2.5–3K · 100K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • Craig Wilcox tried four times to pass a law to protect domestic abusers.

    21 October 2026 · Karen Battaglia for IL Senate District 32 · $2–2.5K · 125K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • You may have seen a mailer questioning whether I care about the safety of families. I wanted to answer it myself, and I wanted to share something I have never said publicly. Please watch, and please vote on or before November 3rd.

    26 October 2026 · Karen Battaglia for IL Senate District 32 · $1–1.5K · 175K+ 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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Karen Battaglia for IL Senate District 32: political ads on Facebook and Instagram before the 2026 US midterms · Vipima