United States 2026 · Parties and candidates · House, Georgia 3

Michael Crane

Michael Crane’s FEC committees ran 125 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram from 1 page between 8 May 2026 and 19 October 2026. Meta reports $99.5–128.2K of spend. That makes Michael Crane the 82nd largest spender of the 1181 federal candidates with ads. Running for House, Georgia 3. Party: Republicans.

Data from the Meta Ad Library, pulled 4 November 2026. Election on 3 November 2026.

125

ads on 1 page

$113.8K

reported spend, range $99.5–128.2K

100%

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
17%
Promotional
79%
Defensive
4.0%

Share of the 125 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.

Most attacked

  • the Establishment and the radical Left$7.1K
  • D.C. elites$2.4K
  • Radical Leftist Elites$1.2K
  • Green New Deal Scammers$950

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

Topics

Candidate profile
62%
Corruption & governance
57%
Security, crime & immigration
24%
Infrastructure & energy
0.8%

Spend by race: Federal 100%.

Spend by ad language: English 100%.

FEC committees

FEC committeeAdsSpend ($)
CRANE FOR CONGRESS C00865154125$113.8K

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.

  • I'm not backing down. I'm a Navy SEAL, and we don't give up. That's why I'm asking you, with all humility, to chip in a few bucks before my critical fundraising deadline.

    13 May 2026 · Eli Crane for Congress · $10–15K · 300K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • I’m Former Navy SEAL Eli Crane. The Radical Left is spending millions to defeat me because I fight every day for the America First agenda.

    12 May 2026 · Eli Crane for Congress · $7–8K · 300K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • The Radical Left is spending millions trying to defeat me because I fight for Trump, secure borders, and America First values

    2 October 2026 · Eli Crane for Congress · $7–8K · 150K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • I refuse to bow to the Washington establishment or back down from the America First movement. That’s why they’re attacking me.

    21 May 2026 · Eli Crane for Congress · $4.5–5K · 80K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • The Radical Left wants me out of Congress because I fight every day for President Trump, border security, and the America First agenda.

    21 May 2026 · Eli Crane for Congress · $4.5–5K · 80K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • I’m former Navy SEAL Eli Crane. The Radical Left is spending millions to defeat me because I fight for Trump and secure borders.

    21 May 2026 · Eli Crane for Congress · $4–4.5K · 80K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

Pages that ran the ads

PageAdsSpend ($)
Eli Crane for Congress125$113.8K

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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