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SoCal Daily Pulse

This page ran 101 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 6 May 2026 and 26 October 2026. Meta reports $200 – $10.2K of spend, which makes it the 6,362nd largest advertiser of the 24,034 pages in our data. Advertiser type: Media. Most of its spend took no side. Race: No specific race.

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 ↗

101

ads

$5.2K

reported spend, range $200 – $10.2K

0.0%

of spend on federal races

$50

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
51%
Promotional
24%
Informational
25%

Share of the 100 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.

Most attacked

  • Xavier Becerra$396
  • Gavin Newsom$198
  • Supervisor Katrina Foley$198
  • Tom Steyer$198
  • Becerra$149
  • Melissa Caldwell$99

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

Topics

Security, crime & immigration
42%
Corruption & governance
36%
Economy & cost of living
22%
Infrastructure & energy
19%
Education
14%
Health
13%
Candidate profile
12%
Electoral process & turnout
7.0%

Spend by race: State 5.7%, Local 24%, No specific race 70%.

Spend by ad language: English 99%.

The costliest ads

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

  • Mailers and texts are starting to hit Orange County ahead of the June 2 primary, and the first notable one out of the gate is the Democratic Party of Orange County officially endorsing Katrina Foley for Orange County's Fifth Supervisorial District.

    6 May 2026 · SoCal Daily Pulse · $100 – $199 · 7K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • Disturbing videos recorded near the newly-named Charlie Kirk Way in Westminster are circulating online, sparking backlash from viewers who say the content is deeply inappropriate. Many are condemning the clips as disrespectful, while critics are calling for accountability, saying the videos go too far.

    6 May 2026 · SoCal Daily Pulse · $100 – $199 · 20K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

  • Melissa Caldwell, a CUSD Area 4 candidate, is facing questions after her opponent, Marco Carralero, says an AirTag tracked one of his stolen campaign signs to her home. Caldwell did not respond to a request for comment. Read the full story at socaldailypulse.com.

    26 October 2026 · SoCal Daily Pulse · $0 – $99 · 100+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • Melissa Caldwell, a CUSD Area 4 candidate, is facing questions after her opponent, Marco Carralero, says an AirTag tracked one of his stolen campaign signs to her home. Caldwell did not respond to a request for comment.

    26 October 2026 · SoCal Daily Pulse · $0 – $99 · 100+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • Orange Unified’s school board voted 6-1 on Oct. 15 to extend a charter school’s facilities agreement through 2028. The agreement with Tomorrow’s Leadership Collaborative (TLC) Charter School referenced a prior amendment as “attached hereto as Exhibit 1.” But a screen recording of the five-page agreement showed only a cover sheet for Exhibit 1, without the underlying document. Under the agreement, TLC would pay the district $194,028.14 in the 2026-27 school year. It remains unclear whether tru

    26 October 2026 · SoCal Daily Pulse · $0 – $99 · 100+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

  • Orange Unified trustees voted 6-1 to approve a charter school facilities agreement worth nearly $200,000 annually, despite questions about a missing attachment. One trustee proposed delaying the decision, but the board moved forward.

    26 October 2026 · SoCal Daily Pulse · $0 – $99 · 100+ impressions · Informational · 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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