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Shumway for Congress

This page ran 10 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 6 May 2026 and 15 May 2026. Meta reports $500 – $1.5K of spend, which makes it the 13,669th largest advertiser of the 24,034 pages in our data. Advertiser type: Candidate. Most of its spend was on the Republicans’ side. Race: Federal.

Data from the Meta Ad Library, pulled 4 November 2026. Election on 3 November 2026. · Every ad of this page in Meta’s Ad Library ↗

10

ads

$995

reported spend, range $500 – $1.5K

100%

of spend on federal races

$50

median spend per ad

Spend by week the ad started

4 May
1 Jun
6 Jul
3 Aug
7 Sep
5 Oct
 Spend still counting
2 Nov

Tone

Attack
40%
Promotional
20%
Informational
40%

Share of the 10 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.

Most attacked

  • Mike Simpson$598

Targets as the ads name them, by spend; the spellings of Donald Trump are counted together, other names as written.

Topics

Electoral process & turnout
60%
Economy & cost of living
40%
Candidate profile
40%
Corruption & governance
20%

Spend by race: Federal 100%.

Spend by ad language: English 100%.

The costliest ads

The highest-spend ad of each distinct text, as it ran.

  • Mike Simpson has been in Congress 27 years. America is $40 trillion in debt. Why keep rewarding failure?

    15 May 2026 · Shumway for Congress · $300 – $399 · 50K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • There's a fundamental disconnect here. Help me fix this problem. Vote for Shumway on May 19.

    15 May 2026 · Shumway for Congress · $100 – $199 · 25K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • When should Idahoans start worrying about the size of the national debt?

    15 May 2026 · Shumway for Congress · $0 – $99 · 3K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

  • "Throw the bums out," they said. And then they re-elected Congress at a rate of 97%. Mike Simpson's been in for 27 years. Time to try someone new.

    15 May 2026 · Shumway for Congress · $0 – $99 · 0+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • Perry Shumway, a Rexburg resident, is running for Congress against moderate Republican Mike Simpson to represent Idaho's Second Congressional District in the US House of Representatives in 2026.

    15 May 2026 · Shumway for Congress · $0 – $99 · 1K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

Figures cover domestic political ads paid in dollars, from 4 May 2026. Spend is the sum of Meta’s range midpoints; impressions above one million are reported as “1M+”, so impression figures are floors. Each ad counts in the week its delivery started, with its lifetime spend at our last pull; ads still running before the vote are counted as of 31 October 2026.

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