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Salon reports the specter of Jeffrey Epstein appears to be looming over the Republican Party as the GOP struggles to maintain it\u2019s delicate House and Senate majorities.<\/p>\n

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Republicans have seized on Epstein\u2019s ties to Democratic figures like former President Bill Clinton, but it appears that Epstein lingers most heavily over the party with a president whose name peppers the Epstein files, and who worked so obviously to keep the files under wraps. Trump also labored to remove Republicans who favored exposing the Epstein files in Republican primaries.<\/p>\n

This is giving Democrats an additional edge in a race that is already swinging heavily away from Republicans who have failed to reign in President Donald Trump\u2019s various power grabs and his monetizing of the White House.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe revelations from the files further fueled the widespread, bipartisan exasperation among voters with the wealthiest elites,\u201d reports Salon. \u201cThe Epstein issue, two Democratic pollsters told The 19th, is rare for its high salience and far reach even among less politically engaged voters \u2014 and for the high levels of bipartisan agreement on the need for more action.\u201d<\/p>\n

Surveys from Navigator Research and progressive pollster Data for Progress buttress that argument, with both polls showing majorities of voters \u2014 including a majority of Republicans \u2014 believe \u201cthere hasn\u2019t been enough accountability connected to Epstein\u2019s crimes\u201d and they want to see more arrests and prosecutions. The March Navigator poll, in particular, revealed the share of Americans who said they believed Trump administration officials should resign over the Epstein matter increased when they were informed about officials in other countries being arrested, fired or forced to resign over their Epstein connections.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat has happened with the Epstein files is such a clear distillation of the frustration that Americans across different partisan ideologies, even Republicans, even MAGA Republicans, and certainly independents, feel that there\u2019s a different set of rules \u2014 or that really no rules at all \u2014 for the elite who just seem to get ahead,\u201d said Melissa Toufanian, managing director at Navigator.<\/p>\n

The Navigator survey, revealed that half of Americans, including two-thirds of Democrats and nearly 60 percent of independents, said they believed the government was \u201cdefinitely\u201d covering up additional wrongdoing by Epstein. And 72 percent of Americans, including 70 percent of independents, 67 percent of non-MAGA Republicans and 57 percent of respondents identified as MAGA Republicans, demanded more arrests and prosecutions related to Epstein.<\/p>\n

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Sixty-four percent of surveyed adults, including two-thirds of independents and half of Republicans, said they believed Epstein\u2019s crimes were \u201cunsurprising and the result of a broader problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is giving Democrats a definite edge in the midterms after the party battled the White House and it\u2019s foot-dragging Republican defense team in the House to release the files last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt really cuts across every political divide in a way that we almost never see on other issues,\u201d Toufanian said.<\/p>\n

The number of red state candidates running on Epstein and the \u201cEpstein class\u201d demonstrates this, reports Salon. Texas Democratic senatorial candidate James Talarico and Ohio Democratic senatorial candidate Sherrod Brown appear to be getting good mileage out of their Republican opponents by campaigning against the Epstein class, as is Noah Taylor, an Army veteran running as a Democrat for the Senate in Kansas, and Dan Osborn, an independent Senate candidate in Nebraska. <\/p>\n

\u201cOsborn, who is challenging Sen. Pete Ricketts, issued a news release pointing to a campaign rally in which Ricketts and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas appeared together, calling them \u2018birds of a feather who are content to carry out the agenda of the billionaire Epstein class,\u2019\u201d reports Salon.<\/p>\n

And it definitely does not help that voters were not only highly aware of the Epstein files issue but were able to name specific figures connected to it, including Trump, who they believed to be part of the Epstein class, according to Data for Progress research.<\/p>\n

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