Democrats to Bring Epstein Name Back for the Midterms

 

While the media has virtually forgotten about the Jefferey Epstein scandals?

Democrats think bring the subject back for the last five months before the 2026 Midterm Election could serve them well ….

Several top Democratic candidates in the midterms are airing scathing ads linking their Republican foes to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal — betting that the Trump administration’s reluctance to release the Epstein files still resonates with voters.

Why it matters: Democrats are mostly focusing on high prices, health care and Trump’s war against Iran, but some also are trying to tie Republicans to the late sex offender as part of a broader message accusing the GOP of protecting the corrupt elite.

Zoom in: In the hotly contested Ohio Senate race, Democrat Sherrod Brown has spent nearly $1.5 million on TV ads slamming his GOP rival, freshman Sen. Jon Husted, for previously taking donations from Epstein financial client Leslie Wexner, according to the ad-tracking firm AdImpact.

• In fact, the only two ads Brown has aired this year have attacked Husted over Epstein, per AdImpact.

Husted spokesperson Amy Natoce told Axios the campaign has “donated all available funds” from Wexner “to an anti-human trafficking charity.”

• Husted’s campaign has also noted that Brown previously accepted donations from Wexner’s wife. Wexner, for his part, has said that Epstein conned him.

Graham Platner, the presumptive Democratic nominee in the Maine Senate race — a must-win contest for the party’s hopes of gaining a majority in the Senate — also is making anti-Epstein messaging part of his strategy to unseat Republican Sen. Susan Collins.

• In a six-figure TV ad, Platner accuses Collins of selling out voters to “the president and to the Epstein class,” as an old video of Epstein and Donald Trump flashes across the screen.

In Georgia’s Senate race — one of the GOP’s best opportunities to flip a seat this year — Sen. Jon Ossoff (D) likewise has argued in speechesand media interviews that Trump’s administration is made up of “the Epstein class.”

What they’re saying: Rep. Ro Khanna, a California Democrat who spearheaded the push to release the Epstein files alongside Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), feels vindicated by the anti-Epstein ads.

• “The establishment class thought I was crazy when I first pushed to release the Epstein files,” he told Axios. “They said nobody would care. Nobody would vote based on it.”
• “What they missed is that Epstein goes to the core of what people hate about Washington: a rigged system where the rich and powerful play by different rules.”….

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image…PBS….From left, American real estate developer Donald Trump and his girlfriend (and future wife), former model Melania Knauss, financier (and future convicted sex offender) Jeffrey Epstein, and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell pose together at the Mar-a-Lago club, Palm Beach, Florida, February 12, 2000…..Photo by Davidoff Studios/Getty