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Finding House · South Carolina Democrat

Lacore, Nancy FINDING

Seat
H-SC-01
Party
DEM
Universe reason
contested_primary
FEC receipts
$1,633,139 FEC
Campaign site
https://www.nancylacore.com/ (unverified)
Pages scanned
41 · last 2026-07-09

Posted public messaging guidance consistent with red-boxing

Detected on https://www.nancylacore.com/media?author=5cb235d75e0ed89f1e0a4cc9  · classifier confidence 0.95 · model fireworks/deepseek-v4-flash

The page contains a section with explicit media-buy instructions: it tells outside groups which voters to target, on which digital platforms (OTT/CTV, YouTube, Meta, programmatic), with what message, and when (ASAP, early voting dates). This is not a press release or voter-facing content; it is directive guidance for paid media. The rest of the page is a standard press kit, but the presence of this red-boxing section dominates the classification.

Quoted evidence — verbatim spans from the page

  • Beginning ASAP, SC-01 likely Democratic runoff primary voters need to see across digital platforms including OTT/CTV, YouTube, Meta, and programmatic, need to see the following information for the June 23 Democratic Primary Runoff Election:
    Directive specifying audience (voters), channels (digital platforms), timing (ASAP, runoff election), and that they 'need to see' a message — classic red-box media-buy instruction.
  • Voters need to see positive communications starting as soon as possible. Early voting takes place on June 17 & 18 and the Democratic Primary Runoff Election is on Tuesday, June 23.
    Reinforces timing and urgency for ad placement, typical of guidance to outside groups.
Archived screenshot of https://www.nancylacore.com/media?author=5cb235d75e0ed89f1e0a4cc9
Archived at detectionFull-page screenshot of https://www.nancylacore.com/media?author=5cb235d75e0ed89f1e0a4cc9 · Raw HTML preserved

Independent-expenditure corroboration

FEC Schedule E · 11 filings

Sequence. Messaging guidance was present on the candidate's site when detected (by us) on 2026-07-09; $1,021,546 in supporting independent expenditures is on file for this candidate.

Committee AmountFilingsDate range
S VOTEVETS $775,621 6 2026-05-06 – 2026-06-11
S THE BENCH $245,925 5 2026-06-11 – 2026-06-16

S Supporting O Opposing

Schedule E is corroboration, not the trigger — a filed expenditure is late evidence, and our detection timestamp reflects when we crawled, which can lag the actual posting. Supporting IE dated on or after our detection day: $0. Dates are FEC expenditure dates.