Harris leads U.S. Democrats in Facebook ads on impeachment; Biden absent

By Jason Lange and Elizabeth Culliford

WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Kamala Harris is funding the most new Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) ads calling for President Donald Trump's impeachment among the 19 Democrats seeking their party's nomination to face the Republican president in the November 2020 election, a Reuters review of Facebook ad data shows.

Noticeably absent from tallies of Democrats' pro-impeachment ads is former Vice President Joe Biden, a leading presidential contender who is at the center of the Ukraine controversy involving a call between Trump and Ukraine's president that led to last week's launch of a House impeachment inquiry against the president.

Harris, ...