United States 2026 · Parties and candidates · House, California 40
Young Kim
Result: Not yet called · 45.8% Unofficial count as of 6 November 2026.
Young Kim’s FEC committees ran 42 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram from 2 pages between 1 May 2026 and 26 October 2026. Meta reports $24.5–32.4K of spend. That makes Young Kim the 275th largest spender of the 1181 federal candidates with ads. Running for House, California 40. Party: Republicans.
Data from the Meta Ad Library, pulled 4 November 2026. Election on 3 November 2026.
42
ads on 2 pages
$28.4K
reported spend, range $24.5–32.4K
100%
of spend on federal races
$150
median spend per ad
Meta and Google side by side
On MetaFacebook · Instagram
$28.4K
42 ads on 2 pages, midpoint of Meta’s ranges, 4 May 2026 to 31 October 2026
- Largest page
- Young Kim · $20.9K
- Federal races
- 100%
- Median spend per ad
- $150
- Attack ads, of text ads
- 50%
On Google and YouTubeSearch · YouTube · Display
$85.1–112.3K
23 ads from 1 verified advertiser account, Google’s ranges, 4 May 2026 to 2 June 2026
- Against Meta spend
- 3.5×
- Formats
- 22 video · 1 text
- Impressions
- 2.8M–3.2M
- Targeting declared
- age on 22 ads · gender on 22 ads
- States named
- California
- Last ad shown
- 2 Jun
Google advertiser accounts
| Advertiser | Ads | Formats | States | First ad | Last ad | Spend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YOUNG KIM FOR CONGRESS | 23 | 22 video · 1 text | CA | 28 Apr | 2 Jun | $85.1–112.3K |
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 42 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.
Most attacked
- Ken Calvert$10.8K
- Governor Newsom$2.8K
- Young Kim$1.2K
Targets as the ads name them, by spend; the spellings of Donald Trump are counted together, other names as written.
Topics
Spend by race: Federal 100%.
Spend by ad language: English 100%.
FEC committees
| FEC committee | Ads | Spend ($) |
|---|---|---|
| YOUNG KIM FOR CONGRESS C00665638 | 42 | $28.4K |
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.
While career politicians enrich themselves, Young Kim banned congressional stock trading and is fighting for YOU!
26 October 2026 · Young Kim · $7–8K · 200K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
Young Kim banned House members from trading stocks because she is fighting for YOU, not to get rich like Ken Calvert.
26 October 2026 · Young Kim · $3–3.5K · 100K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
BUSTED: Ken Calvert was caught by police with a prostitute! No wonder President Trump can’t trust him.
21 May 2026 · No More Career Politicians · $2–2.5K · 600K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
'Swampy' Ken Calvert is a professional politician who's too busy serving himself instead of the people of California.
1 May 2026 · No More Career Politicians · $2–2.5K · 600K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Young Kim banned House members from trading stocks & supports term limits because politicians shouldn't go to D.C. to get rich!
26 October 2026 · Young Kim · $1.5–2K · 50K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
Young Kim is working with Trump to stop Governor Newsom, restore law-and-order and stop California’s massive fraud scandal.
27 May 2026 · Young Kim · $1.5–2K · 250K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Pages that ran the ads
| Page | Ads | Spend ($) |
|---|---|---|
| Young Kim | 35 | $20.9K |
| No More Career Politicians | 7 | $7.5K |
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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