As controversy over the Jeffrey Epstein saga continues among MAGA supporters, the Democratic National Committee is seeking to target vulnerable GOP lawmakers with a new batch of ads focusing on the disgraced financier and his relationship with President Donald Trump.
The ads will run before videos on right-wing YouTube and Meta channels like those of Fox News, Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro— target-rich audiences for the voters fixated on Epstein, Axios noted.
"Call your representative. Demand they release the Epstein files," says one of the ads. The video comes as House Republicans have gotten heat for going on August recess without having cast a floor vote to release materials on the investigation.
Another video ad features Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), one of Trump's most loyal supporters, deeming Epstein a "serious issue," in a rare diversion from the White House's messaging. In another video, the DNC highlights pictures of Trump with Epstein himself, a long-known and well-documented friendship.
The ads will run for five days, starting Friday, in the 11 districts of Republicans the DNC deems as vulnerable ahead of the 2026 midterms. More specifically, the ads will be targeting Reps. Tom Barrett (Mich.), Gabe Evans (Colo.), Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.), Ashley Hinson (Iowa), Andy Ogles (Tenn.), Chip Roy (Texas), Bryan Steil (Wisc.) and Derrick Van Orden (Wisc.)
DNC Senior Advisor for Messaging, Mobilization, and Strategy Tim Hogan said Democratic lawmakers are committed to holding the Trump administration accountable for their handling of the infamous case. In February, Attorney General Pam Bondi said she would release the Epstein client list as well as more materials related to the case. But earlier this month, her Justice Department said that no such client list exists, and that they would not be releasing further information, causing fervor among MAGA Republicans.
"Democrats are going to continue to hold the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress accountable for their failure to release the Epstein files and the cover-up that we are witnessing in real time. The American people deserve full transparency, and Donald Trump and his sycophantic enablers are twisting themselves in knots trying to distort the truth," Hogan said.
Some Republicans have started responding to the DNC's new tactic, pointing out that they did not release information on the Epstein files during the Biden administration.
"It is curious that when the Democrat party had unrestricted power and was more than happy to weaponize all instruments of government against their political opponents, that they did not release these files," Rep. Van Orden told Axios in a statement.
The Epstein case has been one of the most significant fractures among the MAGA base in recent years, with some voters enraged over the lack of information being released to the public, while others have been quick to run to Trump's defense as he urges his followers to move on from a crisis he self-detonated.
Green warned this week that "dangling bits of red meat" is no longer enough for the base when it comes to the Epstein files. Likewise, podcaster Theo Von, who has become a conservative darling in the past year, took to social media Monday to press Speaker Mike Johnson and Vice President JD Vance to hold a vote this week on a proposal to release files on the Epstein probe. Even Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis told Fox News on Sunday to "just release it, let people see."
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