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Jeff Merkley US Inactive

JEFF MERKLEY FOR OREGON

ad creative

Tell the Trump Administration: Jailing children indefinitely is cruel and wrong.

Donald Trump has announced a new child imprisonment rule -- one that would allow his administration to hold children and their families in immigration jails ....

Ad copy

You know the horrors Donald Trump is inflicting on migrant families, families seeking asylum, and their children. Now, they're making it worse. Trump's new rule would allow them to lock up children indefinitely. Sign the petition: urge Congress to step in and end Donald Trump’s cruel child imprisonment plan.

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Performance proxies

Overall score56.9/100
Spend / Reach / Long. / Eff.52.4 · 83.1 · 33.6 · 58.4
Spend rangeUSD 6,000–6,999
Impressions175,000 – 199,999
CPM (≈ $/1k impr)USD 34.66
Est. audience size
Days live123 (2019-11-14 → 2020-03-16)
Created2019-11-14
Creative variants1 body · 1 headline
Platformsfacebook, instagram
Languagesen
CandidateOR — Jeff Merkley
Surfaced by“senate:Jeff Merkley”

🧠 AI analysis

Issueimmigration
Framingattack opponent
Message typelist building survey
Emotional appealempathy
Production tiersemi pro
Who picturedfamily children
Symbolsfamily, border
Call to actionsign petition
Standout elementClose-up of a wide-eyed, anxious-looking migrant toddler filling the entire frame
TacticThe ad weaponizes raw emotional empathy by centering a vulnerable child's fearful gaze to make abstract immigration policy viscerally personal, driving petition sign-ups through moral outrage at the named opponent.

Where it ran (delivery by region)

California11.7%
Florida6.6%
New York6.2%
Pennsylvania4.7%
Michigan4.5%
Texas4.4%
Washington3.8%

Who saw it (delivery)

45-54 · unknown 0.1%
35-44 · female 2.8%
35-44 · unknown 0.1%
45-54 · male 1.5%
25-34 · male 0.5%
18-24 · male 0.2%
65+ · unknown 0.4%
18-24 · female 0.6%
55-64 · male 4.0%
55-64 · unknown 0.2%
25-34 · female 1.9%
45-54 · female 6.6%
65+ · male 8.8%
35-44 · male 0.6%
55-64 · female 21.9%
65+ · female 49.7%
18-24 · unknown 0.0%
25-34 · unknown 0.1%

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