United States 2026 · Parties and candidates · Senate, Oregon
David Smith
Result: Lost · 39.5% Unofficial count as of 6 November 2026.
David Smith’s FEC committees ran 2 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram from 1 page between 15 May 2026 and 15 May 2026. Meta reports $0 – $198 of spend. That makes David Smith the 1,153rd largest spender of the 1181 federal candidates with ads. Running for Senate, Oregon. Party: Republicans.
Data from the Meta Ad Library, pulled 4 November 2026. Election on 3 November 2026.
2
ads on 1 page
$99
reported spend, range $0 – $198
100%
of spend on federal races
$50
median spend per ad
Spend by week the ad started
Tone
Share of the 2 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.
Most attacked
- Merkley and Kotek’s Democrat majority$50
Targets as the ads name them, by spend; the spellings of Donald Trump are counted together, other names as written.
Topics
Spend by race: Federal 100%.
Spend by ad language: English 100%.
FEC committees
| FEC committee | Ads | Spend ($) |
|---|---|---|
| DAVID BROCK SMITH FOR OREGON C00941559 | 2 | $99 |
The committees whose ads count for the candidate, as the FEC names them.
The costliest ads
The highest-spend ad of each distinct text, as it ran.
Our natural resource industries are critically important to Oregonians. I have been on the front lines with our producers from across the state, and will grow our efforts from the U.S. Senate. I humbly ask for your vote. We have the team, plan and path to not only beat Merkley, but help our Republican Governor nominee, and our Republican State House and Senate candidates. We need a strong candidate on the top of the ballot that can work with our Republican candidates across the state, and I ha
15 May 2026 · Senator David Brock Smith · $0 – $99 · 6K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
Across Oregon, families, their communities and the businesses that support them continue to struggle due to the bureaucratic blue tape lead by Merkley and Kotek’s Democrat majority policies. We will cut taxes, bring accountability to spending and affordability to our working families. Let’s do this and together, we will build a better Oregon.
15 May 2026 · Senator David Brock Smith · $0 – $99 · 6K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Pages that ran the ads
| Page | Ads | Spend ($) |
|---|---|---|
| Senator David Brock Smith | 2 | $99 |
Each name opens the page’s Vipima page, with its own figures and its link to Meta’s 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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