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Melissa Hurtado

This page ran 70 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 5 May 2026 and 26 October 2026. Meta reports $53.7–68.9K of spend, which makes it the 1,088th 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 Valley Families for Melissa Hurtado for 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 ↗

70

ads

$61.3K

reported spend, range $53.7–68.9K

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
27%
Promotional
73%

Share of the 70 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.

Most attacked

  • Guillermo Gonzalez$20.4K

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
73%
Infrastructure & energy
56%
Health
17%
Agriculture & food
10%
Jobs & youth
7.1%
Social protection
5.7%

Spend by race: State 100%.

Spend by ad language: English 95%, Spanish 5.0%.

The costliest ads

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

  • Data center companies are all in for Guillermo Gonzalez. $510,000 and counting.

    6 October 2026 · Melissa Hurtado · $8–9K · 1M+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • Hurtado fought to reduce child hunger, expand Medi-Cal, crack down on price gouging — and opposed every gas tax hike.

    20 May 2026 · Melissa Hurtado · $7–8K · 700K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • State Senator Melissa Hurtado took on her own party to oppose any increase in the gas tax, because filling up your truck should not be a luxury.

    21 September 2026 · Melissa Hurtado · $3–3.5K · 600K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • State Senator Melissa Hurtado is leading the fight to upgrade our water infrastructure, because clean water should not be a luxury.

    21 September 2026 · Melissa Hurtado · $3–3.5K · 600K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • State Senator Melissa Hurtado working to expand affordable health care and clean water.

    5 May 2026 · Melissa Hurtado · $2.5–3K · 200K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • Guillermo Gonzalez dice que más centros de datos en el Valle sería muy bueno. Sería muy malo para las familias del Valle.

    22 October 2026 · Melissa Hurtado · $2–2.5K · 200K+ impressions · Attack · Ad LibrarySpanish

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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Melissa Hurtado: political ads on Facebook and Instagram before the 2026 US midterms · Vipima