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Josh Turek US Inactive

Josh Turek for Iowa

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Flip Iowaโ€™s Senate seat!

Flip Iowaโ€™s Senate seat!

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Democrat Josh Turek here โ€“ when I was running for Iowa State House, I had to do whatever I could to reach as many voters as possible, including crawling up flights of stairs. I worked that hard ๐˜ซ๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ต to have a conversation. ๐—œ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐—ต๐—ผ๐˜„ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ ๐—œโ€™๐—น๐—น ๐˜„๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ธ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—จ.๐—ฆ. ๐—ฆ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ. Folks, this seat could ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐—ฆ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—น. The stakes couldnโ€™t be higher. Will you chip in $5, $10, or whatever you can to help me flip Iowaโ€™s open Senate seat?
Democrat Josh Turek here โ€“ when I was running for Iowa State House, I had to do whatever I could to reach as many voters as possible, including crawling up flights of stairs. I worked that hard ๐˜ซ๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ต to have a conversation. ๐—œ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐—ต๐—ผ๐˜„ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ ๐—œโ€™๐—น๐—น ๐˜„๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ธ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—จ.๐—ฆ. ๐—ฆ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ. Folks, this seat could ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐—ฆ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—น. The stakes couldnโ€™t be higher. Will you chip in $5, $10, or whatever you can to help me flip Iowaโ€™s open Senate seat?

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Performance proxies

Overall score45.6/100
Spend / Reach / Long. / Eff.29.2 ยท 63.8 ยท 29.2 ยท 60.2
Spend rangeUSD 700โ€“799
Impressions25,000 โ€“ 29,999
CPM (โ‰ˆ $/1k impr)USD 27.26
Est. audience size100,001 โ€“ 500,000
Days live107 (2025-11-25 โ†’ 2026-03-12)
Created2025-11-24
Creative variants2 body ยท 2 headline
Platformsfacebook, instagram
Languagesen
CandidateIA โ€” Josh Turek
Surfaced byโ€œsenate:Josh Turekโ€

๐Ÿง  AI analysis

Issuecandidate character bio
Framingpositive candidate
Message typefundraising
Emotional appealempathy
Production tiersemi pro
Who picturednone
Symbolsnone
Call to actiondonate
Standout elementGround-level view looking up a long flight of concrete stairs, viscerally illustrating the physical effort of door-to-door campaigning
TacticThe ad uses a personal vulnerability story โ€” crawling up stairs โ€” as a character proof point to convert that relatable sacrifice into a small-dollar donation ask tied to Senate control stakes.

Where it ran (delivery by region)

Iowa100.0%

Who saw it (delivery)

18-24 ยท female 0.6%
45-54 ยท male 3.8%
65+ ยท male 8.6%
65+ ยท female 26.6%
55-64 ยท unknown 0.2%
55-64 ยท male 4.9%
55-64 ยท female 16.3%
45-54 ยท unknown 0.2%
45-54 ยท female 13.1%
18-24 ยท male 0.5%
35-44 ยท unknown 0.2%
35-44 ยท male 4.0%
35-44 ยท female 12.5%
25-34 ยท unknown 0.2%
25-34 ยท male 2.2%
25-34 ยท female 5.4%
18-24 ยท unknown 0.1%
65+ ยท unknown 0.5%

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