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Colin Allred US Inactive

COLIN ALLRED FOR SENATE

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Midnight Deadline: Donate to kick Ted Cruz out of the Senate!

BEAT TED CRUZ | Chip in now.

Are you ready to send Ted Cruz packing? Chip in now to elect Colin Allred.

Weโ€™re closer than ever to beating Ted Cruz.

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When I played in the NFL, we called guys like Ted Cruz โ€œ๐ฆ๐ž ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฒ๐ฌ.โ€ Flying off to Cancun in the middle of a crisis? Fighting to ban books just because you personally donโ€™t like them? Believing you somehow know better than a woman and her doctor do? ๐€๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐œ๐ฅ๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐œ โ€œ๐ฆ๐ž ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฒโ€ ๐›๐ž๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ข๐จ๐ซ. Unlike Ted Cruz, I believe WE is more powerful than ME. Together, WE have pulled even in the polls, and WE are going to kick him out of the Senate โ€“ but only if we can keep reaching voters across Texas. Please chip in today to join our history-making grassroots movement.
๐”๐‘๐†๐„๐๐“: After a fifth poll showed Colin Allred statistically TIED with Ted Cruz, Cruz and his dark-money allies poured $28 MILLION into attack ads against us. Theyโ€™re trying to crush our momentum, and Colin needs YOUR grassroots support ASAP to fight back: Will you chip in now to make sure we donโ€™t waste our best chance to FINALLY kick Ted Cruz out of the Senate?
โ€œ๐๐„๐€๐“ ๐“๐„๐ƒ ๐‚๐‘๐”๐™. ๐๐„๐€๐“ ๐“๐„๐ƒ ๐‚๐‘๐”๐™. ๐๐„๐€๐“ ๐“๐„๐ƒ ๐‚๐‘๐”๐™.โ€ After hearing that chant ring through the air at the DNC, Iโ€™m more sure than ever that we will retire Ted Cruz this November. Enthusiasm was so high that right after that, we raised a historic $1 million in the 24 hours following my speech. Cruz can see the writing on the wall โ€“ but now, heโ€™s scrambling, calling in every favor he can to try and hold onto power. His campaign, the NRSC, and other dark-money super PAC just poured a combined $28 million into attack ads. Iโ€™m worried if we donโ€™t fight back immediately, weโ€™ll lose the best chance weโ€™ve ever had to replace him. Thatโ€™s why Iโ€™m personally asking: Will you chip in anything at all to my campaign right now to help me send Ted Cruz packing once and for all and help Democrats protect our razor-thin Senate majority?
๐“๐ž๐ ๐‚๐ซ๐ฎ๐ณ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐’‘๐’‚๐’๐’Š๐’„๐’Œ๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ. After we raised a historic $1 million in 24 hours following Colinโ€™s DNC speech, a fifth poll was released showing this race in a statistical TIE. This is proof we can flip Texas blue โ€“ and that your grassroots support is literally a game-changer. But then, Ted Cruz and his super PAC allies dumped another $28 MILLION into attack ads against us. Theyโ€™re pulling out all the stops to crush our momentum and keep Colin from taking the lead. ๐’๐จ ๐ง๐จ๐ฐ, ๐ฐ๐ž ๐ง๐ž๐ž๐ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ฅ๐ค๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ง ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ. ๐–๐ž ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐œ๐ก ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ ๐จ๐š๐ฅ ๐›๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐ข๐๐ง๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ก๐ž๐ฅ๐ฉ ๐‚๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐›๐š๐œ๐ค ๐š๐ง๐ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ฎ๐ž ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐œ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฏ๐จ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐š๐œ๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐“๐ž๐ฑ๐š๐ฌ: ๐–๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐œ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ ๐ข๐ง ๐š๐ง๐ฒ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š๐ญ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ก๐ž๐ฅ๐ฉ ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐ ๐ž๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž?

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Performance proxies

Overall score53.6/100
Spend / Reach / Long. / Eff.59.4 ยท 92.5 ยท 1.9 ยท 60.4
Spend rangeUSD 10,000โ€“14,999
Impressions450,000 โ€“ 499,999
CPM (โ‰ˆ $/1k impr)USD 26.31
Est. audience sizeโ€”
Days live8 (2024-09-23 โ†’ 2024-10-01)
Created2024-09-23
Creative variants4 body ยท 2 headline
Platformsfacebook, instagram
Languagesen
CandidateTX โ€” Colin Allred
Surfaced byโ€œsenate:Colin Allredโ€

๐Ÿง  AI analysis

Issuecandidate character bio
Framingcontrast comparison
Message typefundraising
Emotional appealurgency
Production tiersemi pro
Who picturedcandidate, opponent
Symbolsnone
Call to actiondonate
Standout elementSide-by-side photos with Allred in warm color vs. Cruz desaturated in gray, visually reinforcing the hero-vs-villain contrast
TacticThe ad deploys a poll-parity urgency tactic โ€” leveraging tie-race data as a deadline trigger โ€” while using the 'me guy' NFL framing to humanize Allred and characterize Cruz as selfish, driving donors to act before a midnight deadline.

Where it ran (delivery by region)

Texas27.7%
California12.3%
New York5.7%
Florida4.3%
Washington3.0%
Illinois2.8%
Pennsylvania2.5%

Who saw it (delivery)

18-24 ยท female 0.1%
45-54 ยท male 5.9%
65+ ยท male 20.9%
65+ ยท female 28.7%
55-64 ยท unknown 0.3%
55-64 ยท male 9.4%
55-64 ยท female 12.2%
45-54 ยท unknown 0.1%
45-54 ยท female 7.6%
18-24 ยท male 0.1%
35-44 ยท unknown 0.1%
35-44 ยท male 4.3%
35-44 ยท female 5.4%
25-34 ยท unknown 0.1%
25-34 ยท male 1.8%
25-34 ยท female 2.5%
18-24 ยท unknown 0.0%
65+ ยท unknown 0.6%

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