United States 2026 · Parties and candidates · Senate, Kentucky
Charles Booker
Charles Booker’s FEC committees ran 158 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram from 1 page between 3 September 2026 and 22 October 2026. Meta reports $38.1–57.8K of spend. That makes Charles Booker the 179th largest spender of the 1181 federal candidates with ads. Running for Senate, Kentucky. Party: Democrats.
Data from the Meta Ad Library, pulled 4 November 2026. Election on 3 November 2026.
158
ads on 1 page
$48K
reported spend, range $38.1–57.8K
100%
of spend on federal races
$50
median spend per ad
Meta and Google side by side
On MetaFacebook · Instagram
$48K
158 ads on 1 page, midpoint of Meta’s ranges, 4 May 2026 to 31 October 2026
- Largest page
- Charles Booker · $48K
- Federal races
- 100%
- Median spend per ad
- $50
- Attack ads, of text ads
- 82%
On Google and YouTubeSearch · YouTube · Display
$3.5–5.2K
13 ads from 1 verified advertiser account, Google’s ranges, 4 May 2026 to 3 November 2026
- Against Meta spend
- 0.1×
- Formats
- 2 video · 10 text · 1 image
- Impressions
- 165K–200K
- Targeting declared
- no age or gender
- States named
- Kentucky, Illinois, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia
- Last ad shown
- 3 Nov
Google advertiser accounts
| Advertiser | Ads | Formats | States | First ad | Last ad | Spend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOOKER FOR KENTUCKY | 13 | 2 video · 10 text · 1 image | KY, IL, NC +3 | 4 Sep | 3 Nov | $3.5–5.2K |
Google publishes no ad text; the link on each account opens its ads in Google’s Ads Transparency Center. An account is tied to this page by its FEC committee; a party page lists its 1 largest.
Spend by week the ad started
Tone
Share of the 158 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.
Most attacked
- Mitch McConnell and Andy Barr$25.4K
- Andy Barr$4.7K
- Mitch McConnell$4.2K
- Elon Musk$647
- Mitch McConnell's protégé$396
- Senate Republicans$347
Targets as the ads name them, by spend; the spellings of Donald Trump are counted together, other names as written.
Topics
Spend by race: Federal 100%.
Spend by ad language: English 100%.
FEC committees
| FEC committee | Ads | Spend ($) |
|---|---|---|
| BOOKER FOR KENTUCKY C00783274 | 158 | $48K |
The committees whose ads count for the candidate, as the FEC names them.
The costliest ads
The highest-spend ad of each distinct text, as it ran.
This is an all hands on deck moment – if every Democrat reading this steps up and chips in just $1, we can send a resounding message to Mitch McConnell and Andy Barr: Kentucky is in play. Will you pitch in $1 or whatever you can afford to my Senate campaign so we can invest in voter contact, digital ads, and organizing efforts to pull ahead and flip the Senate? >>
23 September 2026 · Charles Booker · $5–6K · 80K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Hey, it's Charles Booker with an important update. A new poll has us in a dead heat with Andy Barr, 43% to 43%, making this one of the most competitive Senate races in the country. Because of our momentum, Keep America Great, the Republican super PAC that already spent over $5 million backing Andy Barr, just confirmed they're ramping up spending to attack me before the general election. If you’re able, please consider chipping in whatever you can to our people-powered campaign today to contac
16 September 2026 · Charles Booker · $1–1.5K · 30K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
Quick question before you scroll past: what would it take to get you to chip in to my campaign today? I’m Charles Booker, official Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate. Mitch McConnell took 92 days off and still has a job waiting. Most Kentuckians miss one day, and they're out of a paycheck. It's been over thirty years since Kentucky sent a Democrat to the Senate. But if we win this open seat – Mitch McConnell's seat – we could make lightning strike twice. If everyone watching this chipped in
13 October 2026 · Charles Booker · $1–1.5K · 15K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
That's Mitch McConnell. He spent 92 days away from the Senate on an unexplained taxpayer-funded break. I’m running against his hand-picked nominee, Andy Barr, and this race is now a dead heat – even though I'm being outraised 7:1. The elite class is behind Andy Barr because they know he'll follow Mitch's playbook — collect the paycheck, and then skip the work. I'm running for one reason: to be the 51st vote in the Senate for working Americans. Can you rush $5 or $10 to help flip this seat blu
8 October 2026 · Charles Booker · $1–1.5K · 50K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
A new public poll was released, and Charles Booker is tied with his opponent Andy Barr in the U.S Senate race for Kentucky. 🔵 Charles Booker: 43% 🔴 Andy Barr: 43% We have a real shot at flipping Mitch McConnell’s seat blue for the first time in 40 years, but we're being outspent 7:1. We urgently need resources to reach Kentucky voters before Barr's donors do on the airwaves Nobody expected Kentucky to be this close, and it could decide who controls the Senate in November. Please rush a $10
28 September 2026 · Charles Booker · $900 – $999 · 25K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
I know Kentucky votes red, and I've lost this race before. But this time is different. Andy Beshear won twice, and a year later Trump carried the state by thirty points. Kentuckians don't vote red or blue. They vote for who they trust. Mitch McConnell is stepping down, and this is our best shot in a generation to flip this Senate seat. One poll had Andy Barr up nine, but once voters heard about us, the race tied at 43%–43%. 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗳 𝗞𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗰𝗸𝘆 𝗳𝗹𝗶𝗽𝘀, 𝘀𝗼 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗮𝘁
2 October 2026 · Charles Booker · $800 – $899 · 40K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
Pages that ran the ads
| Page | Ads | Spend ($) |
|---|---|---|
| Charles Booker | 158 | $48K |
Each name opens the page’s Vipima page, with its own figures and its link to Meta’s 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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