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Abdul El-Sayed US Inactive

Abdul for U.S. Senate

ad creative

This is why I make these videos

Ad copy

Hey friends — Abdul here. My team keeps making me record ad after ad… and honestly, I’m getting a little sick of it. But there’s a reason I keep showing up. I do this because I’m the only candidate in this race who’s never taken corporate PAC money, and never will. Instead of taking $100,000 checks from insurance agencies or Big Pharma, I have to ask everyday folks like you. If you don't want to take money from bad people trying to corrupt our politics, you have to ask good people for theirs. That’s why I record videos like this every single month. If you see this video and can chip in $5, $10, whatever you can to help us hit our goal and build a movement of the people by the people and for the people, I’d greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance.

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Performance proxies

Overall score48.5/100
Spend / Reach / Long. / Eff.41.0 · 72.4 · 22.0 · 58.4
Spend rangeUSD 2,000–2,499
Impressions60,000 – 69,999
CPM (≈ $/1k impr)USD 34.61
Est. audience size100,001 – 500,000
Days live81 (2025-11-06 → 2026-01-26)
Created2025-11-06
Creative variants1 body · 1 headline
Platformsfacebook, instagram
Languagesen
CandidateMI — Abdul El-Sayed
Surfaced by“senate:Abdul El-Sayed”

🧠 AI analysis

Issueeconomy taxes
Framingpositive candidate
Message typefundraising
Emotional appealempathy
Production tiersemi pro
Who picturedcandidate
Symbolsmoney cash
Call to actiondonate
Standout elementcandidate in casual black shirt against dark moody background breaking fourth wall with direct, self-deprecating personal appeal
TacticThe ad uses an anti-establishment, authentic-fatigue rhetorical device — the candidate pretending to be reluctant to fundraise — to build trust and lower resistance to a donation ask, framing small-dollar giving as a moral stand against corporate corruption.

Where it ran (delivery by region)

Michigan46.8%
California7.1%
New York5.2%
Texas3.7%
Illinois3.5%
Florida3.0%
Ohio2.4%

Who saw it (delivery)

18-24 · female 0.3%
45-54 · male 10.5%
65+ · male 10.9%
65+ · female 16.1%
55-64 · unknown 0.4%
55-64 · male 8.3%
55-64 · female 9.3%
45-54 · unknown 0.4%
45-54 · female 8.1%
18-24 · male 0.6%
35-44 · unknown 0.6%
35-44 · male 13.8%
35-44 · female 8.7%
25-34 · unknown 0.4%
25-34 · male 7.1%
25-34 · female 4.0%
18-24 · unknown 0.1%
65+ · unknown 0.5%

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