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Alex Zdan for US Senate US Inactive

Alex Zdan for Senate

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Delaney Hall has become a stop on the New Jersey campaign trail - New Jersey Globe

Over the last week, the Delaney Hall immigrant detention center in Newark has become a powderkeg, with a hunger strike inside the facility’s gates and

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Alex Zdan, a Republican running for the U.S. Senate, visited the facility last Friday and said that Democratic protesters and politicians are making a bad situation worse. “It’s become a pilgrimage site, apparently, to pledge your fealty to illegal migrants who have broken the law to come into our country,” Zdan said. “As a Democrat, you need to stand there and decry these conditions. I think it’s appalling.” “And I think it’s something that the Democratic Party is going to suffer for at the ballot box,” he added. “The average voter that you speak to – they want law and order. They don’t want chaos.” https://newjerseyglobe.com/immigration/delaney-hall-has-become-a-stop-on-the-new-jersey-campaign-trail/

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Performance proxies

Overall score23.3/100
Spend / Reach / Long. / Eff.0.0 · 34.4 · 0.0 · 58.7
Spend range<USD 99
Impressions1,000 – 1,999
CPM (≈ $/1k impr)USD 33.01
Est. audience size500,001 – 1,000,000
Days live1 (2026-06-01 → 2026-06-02)
Created2026-06-01
Creative variants1 body · 1 headline
Platformsfacebook, instagram
Languagesen
CandidateNJ — Alex Zdan
Surfaced by“senate:Alex Zdan”

🧠 AI analysis

Issueimmigration
Framingcontrast comparison
Message typepersuasion
Emotional appealanger
Production tiersemi pro
Who picturedcandidate
Symbolsborder, military
Call to actionnone
Standout elementDramatic sunset silhouette of a figure surveying an immigrant detention facility with razor wire fencing
TacticThe ad leverages a news article and direct quotes to lend credibility while painting Democrats as soft on illegal immigration and out of touch with average voters who want law and order.

Where it ran (delivery by region)

New Jersey99.7%
New York0.2%
Central Luzon0.1%

Who saw it (delivery)

18-24 · female 2.9%
45-54 · male 6.9%
65+ · male 22.1%
65+ · female 15.1%
55-64 · unknown 0.2%
55-64 · male 16.6%
55-64 · female 8.7%
45-54 · unknown 0.2%
45-54 · female 2.7%
18-24 · male 6.3%
35-44 · male 6.7%
35-44 · female 1.3%
25-34 · unknown 0.2%
25-34 · male 8.0%
25-34 · female 1.7%
18-24 · unknown 0.1%
65+ · unknown 0.5%

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