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Spotlight Delaware

This page ran 8 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 1 May 2026 and 1 August 2026. Meta reports $1.6–2.4K of spend, which makes it the 10,332nd largest advertiser of the 24,034 pages in our data. Advertiser type: Group or campaign. Most of its spend took no side. Race: No specific race. Paid for by Local Journalism Initiative.

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

$2K

reported spend, range $1.6–2.4K

0.0%

of spend on federal races

$250

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
25%
Informational
75%

Share of the 8 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.

Most attacked

  • Greenwood's town government$450
  • Wilmington Mayor John Carney$450

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
38%
Education
38%
Corruption & governance
25%
Security, crime & immigration
13%
Social protection
13%
Health
13%
Infrastructure & energy
13%

Spend by race: No specific race 100%.

Spend by ad language: English 100%.

The costliest ads

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

  • Residents proposing the idea of disincorporation say Greenwood's town government is secretive, running out of money, and not providing citizens with adequate services for the taxes it collects.

    1 August 2026 · Spotlight Delaware · $400 – $499 · 20K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • As enrollment shifts across Delaware, officials are debating what should happen to schools with hundreds of empty seats.

    6 July 2026 · Spotlight Delaware · $400 – $499 · 25K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

  • A backlash emerged against Wilmington Mayor John Carney after his administration directed artists performing at a city-sanctioned open mic to not talk about two specific minority groups.

    1 May 2026 · Spotlight Delaware · $400 – $499 · 20K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • Delaware officials have reached an agreement to convert hundreds of Delaware State University dorms into a new homeless shelter modeled after the New Castle County Hope Center.

    16 June 2026 · Spotlight Delaware · $200 – $299 · 15K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

  • Six years after COVID began, Delaware students still have not returned to their pre-pandemic proficiency rates for reading and math, according to new test scores from the state’s youngest learners.

    4 June 2026 · Spotlight Delaware · $200 – $299 · 10K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

  • Delays, rising costs, and special education funding could mean higher tax bills this fall.

    1 August 2026 · Spotlight Delaware · $0 – $99 · 3K+ 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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