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110 ads analyzed · 42 use a rhetorical technique, most often name calling and loaded language.
The words doing the persuading
Paid for by Mendoza for Congress“…rural hospitals got left behind. JoAnna Mendoza will fight for Arizona families, not party bosses.”Name CallingSee this ad →
Juan Ciscomani (Republican), JoAnna Mendoza (Democrat) and Jereme Peters (Libertarian) are the nominees for Arizona's 6th congressional district in the November 3, 2026 general election. Juan Ciscomani is the incumbent. By their latest FEC reports, Juan Ciscomani's campaign had raised $7.6 million (through October 14, 2026), JoAnna Mendoza's campaign $11.2 million (through October 14, 2026) and Jereme Peters's campaign $10,000 (through March 31, 2026). Outside groups have reported $3.9 million for Juan Ciscomani and $8.3 million against; $2.7 million for JoAnna Mendoza and $4.1 million against; $92,000 for Jereme Peters and $0 against. Semblen has analyzed 110 ads in this race; 42 used at least one rhetorical technique, most often name calling and loaded language.
Juan Ciscomani (REP, incumbent), JoAnna Mendoza (DEM), Jereme Peters (LIB).
2 others filed with the FEC; any ads they ran are below. 110 ads analyzed, 42 with at least one technique in the copy.
Newest first. The paid-for-by line is the advertiser's own filing. Updated 2026-11-08. 3 ads from other advertisers shown separately below.
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Where they stand
From each campaign's own website, summarised in plain English, with a quote where they gave one; under an issue, Senate votes for those who have cast them. Full detail and sources on each profile: Juan Ciscomani · JoAnna Mendoza.
Economy and cost of livingCiscomani: stated · Mendoza: stated
Juan Ciscomani (REP, incumbent)
Ciscomani says he supports tax relief to help Arizonans keep more of what they earn and offset rising costs. He also says he has secured more than $60 million for local projects such as roads, bridges, airports and water systems.
Mendoza says she wants to lower the cost of food, gas, housing and child care by cracking down on price gouging, modernizing the Child Tax Credit and opposing tariffs. She also says she supports small businesses, workforce training and apprenticeships, and the right to unionize.
Taxes and government spendingCiscomani: stated · Mendoza: stated
Juan Ciscomani (REP, incumbent)
Ciscomani says he fights for lower taxes and fiscal responsibility. He says he supports eliminating taxes on tips, overtime and Social Security, and wants to bring more federal tax dollars back to Arizona.
Ciscomani says he wants to expand health care access in rural communities and has backed record funding for cancer, women's health and Alzheimer's research. He says he also works to root out waste, fraud and abuse in health spending.
Mendoza says she wants to reverse cuts to health care, including to AHCCCS and the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies, and protect coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. She also says she would let Medicare negotiate more drug prices, train more doctors and nurses, and oppose privatizing Medicare.
Social Security and MedicareCiscomani: stated · Mendoza: stated
Juan Ciscomani (REP, incumbent)
Ciscomani says he supports eliminating taxes on Social Security benefits. He also says he backs more than $100 million in Alzheimer's research and co-leads a bill to expand early Alzheimer's screening.
Mendoza says she will oppose any cuts to Social Security benefits and wants to strengthen the program and explore ways to increase benefits for seniors on fixed incomes. She opposes privatizing Medicare and supports adding vision, hearing and dental coverage.
Immigration and the borderCiscomani: stated · Mendoza: stated
Juan Ciscomani (REP, incumbent)
Ciscomani says securing the southern border is his top priority. He says he wants to reinstate Remain in Mexico, dismantle cartels, empower Border Patrol agents and enforce immigration laws strongly and consistently. He has introduced bills with tougher penalties for smugglers, including those who flee police in high-speed chases, and for cartel spotters.
“I will work to reinstate commonsense policies that prioritize security, like Remain in Mexico, dismantle cartels and other criminal organizations”
Mendoza says she wants stronger security at ports of entry, deportation of violent criminals, and accountability for cartels, with enforcement that is professional and follows the law. She also supports legal pathways to citizenship for people who work hard and follow the law, and more oversight of detention facilities.
AbortionCiscomani: no position · Mendoza: no position
Juan Ciscomani (REP, incumbent)
No stated position on their website.
JoAnna Mendoza (DEM)
No stated position on their website.
Energy and climateCiscomani: stated · Mendoza: stated
Juan Ciscomani (REP, incumbent)
Ciscomani backs expanding domestic copper and critical minerals production and mining education in Arizona. He also co-sponsored a bipartisan bill to speed up local permits for residential solar and voted to keep data center costs off utility bills.
Mendoza says she will support investment in American-made energy, including clean energy, and protect local solar projects. She says she wants to keep utility costs down, make data centers bring their own energy, and strengthen water infrastructure, protect groundwater and secure Arizona's share of Colorado River water.
Crime and policingCiscomani: stated · Mendoza: stated
Juan Ciscomani (REP, incumbent)
Ciscomani says he supports law enforcement and has secured funding for new public safety vehicles and equipment in local communities. He has introduced bills to raise penalties for people who help cartels evade police at the border.
Mendoza says she supports funding for law enforcement, including training and body cameras, and does not support cutting police budgets. She also says she wants to hire more crisis response professionals and improve transparency between police and communities.
Ciscomani says he has made education and workforce development a priority, including funding for career and technical education. He is co-leading a bill to create matched-savings accounts for low-income students' college costs and introduced legislation to improve charter school facilities.
Mendoza says she supports workforce training, apprenticeships and technical education as paths to good-paying jobs besides a four-year degree. She also says she wants to expand access to education.
Foreign policy and defenseCiscomani: stated · Mendoza: stated
Juan Ciscomani (REP, incumbent)
Ciscomani says he supports the defense authorization bill to strengthen military readiness and secured a new mission for Fort Huachuca. He also works to modernize the Nogales port of entry for trade and border security.
Mendoza says she supports diplomacy, working with allies and honoring alliances like NATO. She says she would demand Congressional approval before troops are committed to new conflicts and exhaust diplomatic options first.
Elections and ethics in governmentCiscomani: stated · Mendoza: stated
Juan Ciscomani (REP, incumbent)
Ciscomani says he works with Republicans, Democrats and Independents, and that results matter more than partisan politics. He says he pushes for fiscal responsibility and for rooting out waste, fraud and abuse.
Mendoza says she supports banning members of Congress and top officials from trading individual stocks and wants stronger transparency laws. She says she would bring back town halls and hold "Congress in Your Community" events in her first 100 days.
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Findings
As of 2026-11-08. Counts are of distinct ads; the same text run many times is one ad.
Ads analyzed
110 · started running between 2026-06-08 and 2026-11-06
$111,200–152,301 on all ads, $42,200–54,820 on flagged ads · Meta reports ranges; these are the sums of their ends
Example
“not party bosses” — Name Calling, paid for by Mendoza for Congress
· the flagged ad with the highest reported spend that shows the most common technique
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sex changein 3 ads· e.g. “taxpayer-funded sex change surgeries”, “taxpayer funded sex change surgeries”
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Money in this race
From FEC filings for 2025–26. Outside spending is money a group spends on its own about a candidate — TV and online ads, mail, canvassing. It is not a donation to the campaign, and the candidate does not control it. Supporting means it was spent to help that candidate win; Opposing means it was spent to defeat them, usually on attack ads. Groups report it within 24 or 48 hours as the election nears. Raised is the campaign's own fundraising, as of its latest quarterly report. Largest donors come from each outside spender's own FEC receipts, with each donor's share of its itemized receipts; donors under $100,000 are not named. People are shown with the employer and occupation they reported. A donor that is itself a political committee is shown with its own largest donors. Companies and nonprofits don't report their funders to the FEC, so the trail ends there, and the page says so.
HMP— $3.9M opposing CiscomaniLargest donors:
HOUSE MAJORITY FORWARD $93.7M (39%) (an organization: its own funders aren't reported to the FEC); Reid G Hoffman $8.5M (4%), Greylock Partners, Partner; ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FUND $5.0M (2%) (an organization: its own funders aren't reported to the FEC); Fred Eychaner $5.0M (2%), Retired; UNITED ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ISSUES FUND $4.8M (2%) (an organization: its own funders aren't reported to the FEC)VOTEVETS— $1.3M opposing CiscomaniLargest donors:
GOVERNMENT THAT WORKS PAC $6.9M (20%); GLOBAL IMPACT SOCIAL WELFARE FUND $3.0M (9%) (an organization: its own funders aren't reported to the FEC); BETTER WORLD CIVIC TRUST $1.6M (5%) (an organization: its own funders aren't reported to the FEC); DEMOCRACY MATTERS $1.4M (4%) (an organization: its own funders aren't reported to the FEC); Joshua Bekenstein $1.2M (3%), Bain Capital, InvestorAMERICAN MAJORITY ACTION PAC— $1.1M supporting CiscomaniLargest donors:
RESTORATION OF AMERICA PAC $6.8M (100%)TOMORROW TOGETHER— $965K opposing CiscomaniSAFETY & AFFORDABILITY PAC INC.— $604K supporting Ciscomaniand 41 more
Paid for by American Civil Liberties Unionfrom 2026-11-06spend $0–991,000–1,999 impressions
Rep. Juan Ciscomani lost reelection, but he can leave Congress on a high note by finally signing the discharge petition that will force the House to vote on the Dream and Promise Act.
We need just one more signature before November 12 to force a vote!
If enacted, the Dream and Promise Act will build a pathway to citizenship for millions of long-term residents who have built their families, careers, and lives in the U.S.
Forcing this vote now, in the current Congress, is vital to keep up momentum and set the expectation that the incoming Congress will fight to transform our immigration system.
Tell Rep. Ciscomani to do the right thing and sign the discharge petition.
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Paid for by CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP FUNDfrom 2026-10-26spend $100–1994,000–4,999 impressions
The person we choose for the U.S. Congress should represent all of us. JoAnna Mendoza doesn’t.
Lobbying for higher taxes. Supporting taxpayer-funded sex change surgeries. Siding with the most extreme.
JoAnna Mendoza made her choice. Now it’s time to make ours.
Defeat liberal lobbyist JoAnna Mendoza.
Paid for by CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP FUNDfrom 2026-10-23spend $300–39910,000–14,999 impressions
While families continued to struggle, liberal lobbyist JoAnna Mendoza was backing taxpayer-funded sex change surgeries. And lobbying the state to raise your taxes.
As your prices rose higher, JoAnna Mendoza was calling opponents of her radical transgender politics, “Harmful” and “Toxic.”
Because liberal lobbyist JoAnna Mendoza is so extreme, she cares more about LGBTQ than you.
Name Calling: Uses the label 'liberal lobbyist' to discredit the named person by her ideology and profession rather than addressing her arguments.
Loaded Language: Uses emotionally charged framing, contrasting struggling families with 'taxpayer-funded sex change surgeries' to provoke outrage. Flagged: “While families continued to struggle”.
Card Stacking: The sentence juxtaposes rising prices with her rhetoric to imply she ignored economic concerns, omitting any context linking the two. Flagged: “As your prices rose higher”.
Appeal to Prejudice: Sets LGBTQ people against 'you', implying she favors that identity group over ordinary voters to provoke distrust of the group. Flagged: “she cares more about LGBTQ than you”.
Paid posts that ran in AZ and name a candidate, from advertisers that aren't part of this race: news-style pages, campaigns for other offices, and others. They're shown here for completeness and not counted with the ads above. We show the same technique analysis; their claims are not checked.
Grand Canyon Gazette: news-style page
Paid for by Grand Canyon Gazettefrom 2026-08-24 to 2026-08-312 variantsspend $0–1983,000–4,998 impressions
🚨 Arizona Democratic congressional candidate JoAnna Mendoza declined to answer questions about her opposition to Proposition 318, the "Protect Girls Sports in Arizona Act," when confronted on camera by an NRCC spokesperson.
Proposition 318, referred to Arizona voters by the state legislature with unanimous Republican support and unanimous Democratic opposition, would restrict participation in girls' sports and access to female-designated restrooms, locker rooms, and showers based on sex as recorded on an original birth certificate. Arizonans will vote on the measure in November 2026. Mendoza is challenging Republican incumbent Rep. Juan Ciscomani in Arizona's 6th Congressional District, a race the Cook Political Report has rated a toss-up.
Mendoza was also pressed on remarks she made during a 2020 state Senate candidate forum, where she described proposed legislation banning transgender athletes from competing on teams consistent with their gender identity as "harmful" and "toxic." The NRCC has characterized those remarks as calling concerned parents "toxic," but Mendoza's original comments were directed at the legislation itself, not at parents. She did not respond to the question on camera.
Mendoza, a Navy and Marine Corps veteran who served two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, has raised over $2.8 million for her campaign and is part of the DCCC's Red to Blue program. Where do you stand on Proposition 318, and does a candidate's willingness to answer questions on contested issues matter to you? 👇
#Arizona #Prop318 #GirlsSports #AZ06 #Breaking #Congress2026
Paid for by Grand Canyon Gazettefrom 2026-08-12 to 2026-08-182 variantsspend $0–1982,000–3,998 impressions
🚨 House Speaker Mike Johnson has publicly endorsed Rep. Juan Ciscomani's re-election bid, calling Arizona's 6th Congressional District a key race and predicting voters will send Ciscomani back to Congress.
Arizona's 6th District is one of the most evenly divided in the country. Trump carried it by less than a point in 2024, and lost it by less than a point in 2020. Ciscomani won his 2024 race against Democrat Kirsten Engel 50.0% to 47.5% — a margin of under 5,000 votes in 2022 made it one of that cycle's closest House contests nationally.
Speaker Johnson's endorsement signals that national Republicans view AZ-6 as a must-hold seat. Republicans currently hold a 220–213 majority in the House, with two vacancies. Johnson has been actively building toward the 2026 cycle, relaunching his joint fundraising committee as the party prepares to defend its razor-thin margin. Approximately $10.4 million has already been raised across candidates in the AZ-6 race.
The general election is scheduled for November 3, 2026. Do you think Speaker Johnson's endorsement will make a difference in this race? 👇
#JuanCiscomani #Arizona #AZ06 #MikeJohnson #HouseRaces #Breaking
Paid for by Grand Canyon Gazettefrom 2026-08-12 to 2026-08-182 variantsspend $0–1981,100–2,998 impressions
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent traveled to Arizona for a visit focused on the state's economy, manufacturing industry, and business growth. Bessent joined House Speaker Mike Johnson and Arizona Rep. Juan Ciscomani, where the officials toured the Frito-Lay manufacturing plant in Casa Grande and met with business leaders.
During the Arizona visit, Bessent participated in an economic roundtable and discussed efforts to expand domestic manufacturing and investment in the state. The trip highlighted Arizona's growing role in advanced manufacturing and semiconductor production as major companies continue investing in new facilities across the state.
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