The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) on Tuesday unveiled an ad campaign against Rep. Devin Nunes Devin Gerald NunesOvernight Defense: Stopgap spending measure awaits Senate vote | Trump nominates former Nunes aide for intelligence community watchdog | Trump extends ban on racial discrimination training to contractors, military Trump nominates former Nunes aide to serve as intel community inspector general Sunday shows preview: Justice Ginsburg dies, sparking partisan battle over vacancy before election MORE (R-Calif.) over allegations he met with a former Ukrainian official to dig up dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden Joe BidenFormer Pence aide: White House staffers discussed Trump refusing to leave office Progressive group buys domain name of Trump's No. 1 Supreme Court pick Bloomberg rolls out M ad buy to boost Biden in Florida MORE.

“When Rep. Devin Nunes isn’t palling around with the soon-to-be criminally indicted, he’s traveling to Europe trying to pressure foreign governments to dig up dirt on President Trump Donald John TrumpFederal prosecutor speaks out, says Barr 'has brought shame' on Justice Dept. Former Pence aide: White House staffers discussed Trump refusing to leave office Progressive group buys domain name of Trump's No. 1 Supreme Court pick MORE’s political rivals while wasting thousands in taxpayer funds,” DCCC spokesman Andy Orellana said in a statement.

“It’s become abundantly clear that Nunes is doing the absolute most to make himself more and more vulnerable while he ignores the hardworking folks of the Central Valley in order to do Trump’s political bidding,” he added.

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The DCCC is spending under $100 on the new ads, according to Facebook's ad archive.

The group specifically cited new reporting that Nunes, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, met with former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin in December to discuss Biden, one of Trump’s chief political rival.

The California Republican played a starring role in the House’s impeachment inquiry, defending Trump from allegations that he tied $400 million in military aid and a White House visit for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to Kyiv launching an investigation into the former vice president on unfounded corruption charges.

The ads started running Tuesday and will appear on Facebook across California’s 22nd Congressional District.

“Devin Nunes thinks YOU ALL are a bunch of turkeys. While Nunes was stuffing his pockets with $57,000 in taxpayer dollars, he was jetting off to Europe to do Trump’s political dirty work at the expense of Central Valley families,” one ad reads, referencing the price tag of Nunes’s trip to Vienna to meet with Shokin.

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Nunes now could face a congressional review of whether he violated House ethics rules by allegedly meeting with Shokin on a taxpayer-funded trip after an outside group filed a complaint against him with the independent Office of Congressional Ethics.

Multiple Democrats are running against Nunes next year as the party seeks to unseat him in his rural district, though a victory there remains a long shot for the Republicans’ competitors.

The Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan election handicapper, rates Nunes’s seat as “Likely Republican.”