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James Talarico US Inactive

TALARICO FOR TEXAS

ad creative

Something is happening in Texas

Ad copy

Hear me out for 60 seconds. My name is James Talarico, and I'm running for the U.S. Senate here in Texas. Because right now, there is something broken in America. Our economy is broken, our political system is broken. Even our relationships with each other feel broken. That's because the most powerful people in the world want it that way. The biggest divide in America is not left versus right. It's top versus bottom. Billionaires want us looking left and right at each other instead of looking up at them. But this People Powered campaign has what it takes to go up against them and win. So please, chip in what you can. We need as many people as possible to prove our movement is strong enough.

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Performance proxies

Overall score56.1/100
Spend / Reach / Long. / Eff.63.0 · 98.4 · 0.6 · 62.3
Spend rangeUSD 15,000–19,999
Impressions800,000 – 899,999
CPM (≈ $/1k impr)USD 20.59
Est. audience size
Days live3 (2026-01-29 → 2026-02-01)
Created2026-01-29
Creative variants1 body · 1 headline
Platformsfacebook, instagram
Languagesen
CandidateTX — James Talarico
Surfaced by“senate:James Talarico”

🧠 AI analysis

Issueeconomy taxes
Framingpositive candidate
Message typepersuasion
Emotional appealempathy
Production tiersemi pro
Who picturedcandidate
Symbolsnone
Call to actiondonate
Standout elementcandidate holding a phone with a 60-second stopwatch on screen, creating a direct-to-camera accountability hook
TacticThe 'hear me out for 60 seconds' framing combined with the visible timer creates an authentic, low-production intimacy that disarms skepticism and invites personal connection before pivoting to a populist class-conflict message.

Where it ran (delivery by region)

Texas42.3%
California9.2%
Florida3.3%
New York3.2%
Washington2.6%
Illinois2.5%
Colorado2.2%

Who saw it (delivery)

18-24 · female 3.5%
45-54 · unknown 0.2%
Unknown · female 0.0%
65+ · unknown 0.2%
65+ · male 5.2%
65+ · female 9.8%
55-64 · unknown 0.1%
55-64 · male 5.3%
55-64 · female 8.4%
45-54 · male 6.4%
18-24 · male 4.4%
45-54 · female 9.1%
35-44 · unknown 0.3%
35-44 · male 10.1%
35-44 · female 13.0%
25-34 · unknown 0.2%
25-34 · male 11.7%
25-34 · female 12.0%
18-24 · unknown 0.2%
Unknown · male 0.0%

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