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Tom Cotton US Inactive

COTTON FOR SENATE, INC.

ad creative

It's time to get tough on China

SIGN your name now.

Ad copy

I’ve introduced a bill to BAN Communist China from buying American land. We wouldn’t have let Soviet Russia do this — so why are we letting China? SIGN your name below to join me as a Citizen Co-Sponsor.

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Performance proxies

Overall score47.6/100
Spend / Reach / Long. / Eff.25.8 · 81.7 · 7.2 · 75.8
Spend rangeUSD 500–599
Impressions150,000 – 174,999
CPM (≈ $/1k impr)USD 3.38
Est. audience size
Days live27 (2022-08-03 → 2022-08-30)
Created2022-08-02
Creative variants1 body · 1 headline
Platformsfacebook, instagram
Languagesen
CandidateAR — Tom Cotton
Surfaced by“senate:Tom Cotton”

🧠 AI analysis

Issueforeign policy defense
Framingissue advocacy
Message typelist building survey
Emotional appealfear
Production tiersemi pro
Who picturednone
Symbolsnone
Call to actionsign petition
Standout elementcrumpled Chinese flag as background image with torn-paper news quote overlay
TacticUses fear-based framing with a Cold War Soviet Russia comparison and a third-party credibility boost from The Federalist to drive petition sign-ups as a list-building tool.

Where it ran (delivery by region)

Texas8.6%
Florida6.7%
California5.5%
Ohio4.1%
Michigan3.7%
Pennsylvania3.7%
Arkansas3.4%

Who saw it (delivery)

13-17 · male 0.0%
45-54 · male 6.2%
45-54 · unknown 0.1%
25-34 · male 1.4%
35-44 · male 2.3%
65+ · female 28.4%
45-54 · female 3.2%
65+ · male 27.4%
55-64 · male 16.3%
35-44 · female 1.0%
35-44 · unknown 0.0%
25-34 · female 0.6%
55-64 · female 11.9%
18-24 · male 0.4%
55-64 · unknown 0.2%
65+ · unknown 0.4%
25-34 · unknown 0.0%
18-24 · unknown 0.0%
18-24 · female 0.2%

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