If you watch enough brain-warped TV ads and “debate” theatrics, it’s not hard to detect the talking points that have been cannily crafted for both Democrats and Republicans with respect to Jeffrey Epstein, the beloved deceased financier, whose life and times have strangely become the central thematic through-line in our exciting national referendum: call it the Great Pedo Election of 2026. Fun for the whole family! The scale of the Epstein and Child Sex Crime-themed onslaught that has flooded American airwaves in recent weeks is actually kind of breath-taking; not even I would have fully anticipated it, and I always tend to anticipate things getting much bigger and dumber. Easily hundreds of millions of $$ have been deployed to fund wall-to-wall adverts telling frightened, confused voters that such-and-such candidate has shockingly helped “cover up” the most gargantuan pedo rape scandal in world history. It’s pretty much the closing argument everywhere from Kansas to Alaska right now, especially as Dems pull out all the stops to knock off every incumbent they conceivably can, in a cycle that was always going to be highly Dem-favorable regardless. So they’ve left nothing on the field in terms of sheer, unvarnished, politically opportunistic lunacy. And as usual, Dems have far from a monopoly on the nonsense.
One ad that’s been airing in Ohio attacks incumbent GOP Senator Jon Husted in terms that would’ve shocked the conscience of the entire political and media system not very long ago. Serious Pundits always used to bemoan the precipitous decline in cross-party collegiality, especially with an institution like the Senate, predicated as it is on a web of informal / non-binding customs around professional comity. But you gotta think relentlessly maligning colleagues as Pedo Sex Crime-enablers might finally be a bridge too far. The ad in question condemns Husted for having allegedly “helped predators get away with victimizing young girls,” based on a handful of procedural votes he took in 2025 that have formed the foundation of Dems’ attacks on virtually every Republican this cycle vis-a-vis the “Epstein Files.” In other words, Republican Senators acceding to passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act by unanimous consent has proven no barrier for Dems to unleash this torrent of spectacularly un-collegial attacks. “Fourteen year old girls have been raped, but Jon Husted chose to protect the predators,” the ad’s narrator informs us. And when I say “Dems” are behind the barrage, in the case of this particular ad, it’s quite openly an outfit called Senate Majority PAC, affiliated with the likes of Chuck Schumer, that has dumped $30 million into plastering the ad all over the place. So we’re not talking about some fringe group or freelancing donor with a pedo-oriented hobbyhorse. Former senator Sherrod Brown, Husted’s Dem opponent, is likewise airing lots of similar Epstein-themed ads via his own campaign, although those do seem to be a tad on the milder side, and focused more on all the pedo-tainted money Husted has purportedly taken from (gasp) Leslie Wexner — presented as a chief Epstein “co-conspirator,” even though Wexner was thoroughly investigated by the Feds, and they never found anything actionable.
It was Schumer who engineered the September 10, 2025 vote that would later serve as the putative factual basis for this tsunami of attacks — any Republican who voted against his intended-to-fail parliamentary maneuver has now been mercilessly berated on TV as a child sex crime supporter. And for Husted, along with so many other tongue-twisted Republicans this year, if you’re explaining why you didn’t #actually vote to protect pedos, you’re already losing. Certainly the Dems are well aware of this priceless political gift they’ve been handed — hence Schumer cooking up the maneuver in the first place. What he actually did was tack on a last-minute “Release the Epstein Files” amendment to the 2026 National Defense Authorization bill, which made no particular sense substantively or legislatively at the time, except to generate fodder for use in future attack ads. Schumer is lots of things, but he ain’t dumb. (I briefly commented here on his clever little gambit when it happened.)
Republicans have been painfully clueless about how to go about navigating all this. Of course virtually none of them would ever dare to contest any of the premises underpinning the larger “Epstein” narrative — so instead they kind of just flail around, trying whatever ad hoc bandaid-style moves they can think up on the fly. Husted has followed what appears to be the standard GOP strategist playbook: who, pray tell, are the big-brains in the Husted operation who thought it would yield any benefit whatsoever to take the $34,300 he had remaining in his accounts from Wexner, the purported big boogeyman Epstein “co-conspirator,” and “donate” those monies to “Freedom a la Cart” — described as a cafe in Columbus, Ohio that “empowers survivors of sex trafficking and exploitation”?
Did this act of self-flagellating penitence remotely defang any of the hardcore pedo-themed attacks being pelted at him? Of course not. If anything, it only exposed a political vulnerability, and encouraged even more relentless attacks. Not that Jon Husted would be familiar enough with the relevant source material to put forward a convincing “rebuttal” of the wider “Epstein narrative” even if he wanted to — but it just goes to show what a ridiculous bind the Republicans have found themselves in, with everybody across the board way too cowed and/or stupid to competently defuse any of the mindless hysteria. How has it worked out for Husted and his GOP strategists to limply “return fire” by running tit-for-tat ads that declare Sherrod Brown “a liar,” according to the ominous voiceover, because “the truth” is that “Jon Husted voted to release the Epstein Files while Senator Brown took a hundred grand from Epstein Associates.” Please show me a single Ohio voter who was swayed by this line of reasoning?
The more you dig into the nitty-gritty details of the nationwide agitprop avalanche, the dumber it predictably gets. Did both Ralph Alvarado, a GOP House candidate in Kentucky, and Mike Collins, a GOP Senate candidate in Georgia, somehow each independently discover that Reid Hoffman, the big-money Dem donor, once sent Jeffrey Epstein a tub of ice cream, and decide this was awesome material to make a big stink about? Of course not — neither is resourceful enough to scour through the “Epstein Files” for such a shocking, politically advantageous revelation, which through to Low IQ guilt-by-association they could fling at their Democrat foes. And maybe in the process even ward off some of those Epstein-based attacks that Republicans were getting hammered with. Flawless plan, right?
It was the geniuses at the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee and affiliated DC organs who decided early on that the best way they could craftily disarm the Dems’ meddlesome talking points was to yammer semi-coherently about Reid Hoffman. Who, yes, is in fact a major pro-Democrat donor. So they figured just by invoking his name, and showing his unkept / unappealing photos — and then shrieking EPSTEIN — the Republicans could somehow defy the laws of political gravity and actually seize the initiative themselves on this issue, because they could taint their Dem opponents who receive Hoffman’s profligate largesse as the ones who have really cozied up with “Jeffrey Epstein’s BFF.”
Notice the logic embedded in this braindead talking point? That yes, indeed, it is extremely damning and disreputable that a candidate would have ever taken money from anyone even the most flimsily “associated” with Epstein? Meaning: go right ahead and validate the very premise that’s been used to far greater effect by Democrats this cycle. And rather than think about it for two seconds, just plug your ears and scream “BUT WHAT ABOUT REID HOFFMAN” — like little kids on the schoolyard pointing their fingers at each other for having done something real bad… the actual badness of which they can’t seem to articulate to their teacher. Oh wow — Abdul El-Sayed is a member of the reviled “Epstein Class”? You don’t say! Thanks for letting us know! That should really do him in!
Meanwhile, it sure doesn’t seem to make a whole lot of sense that if Abdul is gonna be among those castigated as somehow damningly Epstein-complicit, that Donald Trump of all people should be excluded from the designation. But GOP operatives clearly don’t care to think that far ahead. Or, you know, read stuff that might give them a better grasp of the “Epstein” issue overall. Instead, they’ve tried to use their whimpering media proxies to plant “exclusives” (LOL) — like for instance, Mike Collins calling on his Georgia senate rival Jon Ossoff to return all the Epstein-connected cash that Ossoff sneakily took. “He doesn’t care about our state,” Collins said of Ossoff in a hilariously phony “exclusive” contrived for Fox News Digital. “He doesn’t represent the people of the state or the values of our state. If he did, he certainly wouldn’t be associating himself with some of the Epstein friends out there, just taking money directly, maxed out, from Reid Hoffman who was in the Epstein Files as an Epstein friend.”
Hey Mike: if this is the big attack you’re really gonna go with, do you literally not have enough brain cells to rub together that would enable you to foresee how the same friggin’ attack could be used against a guy named Donald J. Trump? Whose well-documented “associations” with Epstein were always vastly more direct, personal, and non-stupidly-peripheral than Jon Ossoff taking money from Reid Hoffman seven years after our beloved New York financier perished in a federal jail facility? When Collins tried to debut his talking point ambush on the debate stage a couple weeks later, it was a completely shambolic mess. Ossoff had no problem gamely retorting with a conversation-stopper that had been furnished to him by his marginally savvier operatives: even when everyone “knew” Epstein had raped tons of 14-year-olds, Mike Collins and the GOP schemed to block the release of Epstein Files. How dare they! And how dare Mike try to lecture Jon on anything Epstein-related at all! Whatever one-upmanship Collins was going for here quickly fizzled into babbling incoherence the minute Ossoff invoked the purported mass rape of young teens. Doesn’t matter if Jon’s claim had a valid factual predicate, which it didn’t — it promptly put Mike in his place.
Turns out, fuming with phony indignation that Reid Hoffman “visited the Epstein Island,” and sent an illicit supply of ice cream to Epstein on his birthday, did not land quite the way Mike apparently hoped it would. Maybe the idea for the pedo talking point broadside came from the same genius GOP operatives who assured Ashley Hinson she could salvage her flagging Senate campaign by speaking directly to the camera, in the glow of that classic warm lighting, to let Iowa voters know she recently had to tell her young sons that “no, Mom does not protect pedophiles.” What a phenomenal closing argument!
Or how about Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE) — who’s pumped out a ton of sleek, highly-produced ads slamming his opponent, Dan Osborn (the Democrat-leaning independent) for supposedly taking dirty pedo money from an individual “accused of trafficking girls for Jeffrey Epstein.” Who is this individual, you ask? That would be Dana Chasin, a Dem Party fundraiser who it was soon discovered had never even met Jeffrey Epstein, and had only been “accused” of such barbaric “trafficking” crimes by a former “Jane Doe” wackjob named Kristy Makuta, whose carousel of insanities I reported back in May. So yeah: Senator Ricketts, in desperate search of any Epstein counter-attacks he could add to his mighty arsenal, has been blasting out ads based on outright fabricated claims from a certifiably crazy fraudster person. Great stuff! I also asked Congressman Maxwell Frost (D-FL) over the weekend about his own role in peddling the exact same fabricated Kristy Makuta garbage, and his answers were… enlightening. I figure I’ll regale you with that info in a post-Midterms article, since Frost and I broached the topic of what Democrats have planned in the months and years ahead. Top of the priority list: more vengeance for “Epstein Survivors.” By golly, it will never end! And thank the Lord for that. Indeed, I have started to look on the bright side of this unremitting Pedo Panic: if nothing else, it’s an endless goldmine of material!
If you happen to be wondering where Jon Ossoff got his slam-dunk debate riposte about the 14-year-old girls supposedly being raped en masse by Epstein, and “everyone knowing” about this, but then the Republicans still shockingly voted to cover it all up, look no further than the DC Democrat agitprop outfits — namely the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which have long circulated dossiers on target-seat Republicans that feature precisely this evocative teenage-rape wordage, no doubt having poll-tested it for maximum emotional resonance with suggestible voters.
“[Pennsylvania GOP Congressman Brian] Fitzpatrick sided with the corrupt system in Washington when he was the deciding vote to block the release of the Epstein Files even after he knew teenage girls as young as 14 were raped,” reads one such DCCC dossier, updated October 13, 2026. As the midterm campaign season progressed, these PR wunderkinds clearly came to realize that “Epstein” and related Pedo Panic matters were proving highly effective to beat Republicans over the head with. Hence what appears to be an enormous blitz of late pedo-themed ad spending; Axios put the total at $70 million as of October 21, and that only covered the period since September 1. It’s almost certainly a major undercount — for instance, the total does not likely include the slew of Epstein-referential ads that have featured in random Pennsylvania state legislature races. Either way, the spending seems to have ramped up even harder in the closing weeks. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK) vented at his final debate with Dem challenger Mary Peltola that those ads accusing him of an Epstein coverup have been running “nonstop” as the campaign approached its sordid climax. But like most dumbfounded Republicans, the best Sullivan could muster by way of rebuttal was that his 2025 procedural votes were actually about not “re-victimizing the victims.” Which… lol. I would love to meet the Alaska voter who heard that little impromptu explanation, breathed a huge sigh of relief, and then decided to vote for Dan Sullivan.
This DCCC-disseminated wordage is how you get SuperPAC commercials in Maine intoning that “Susan Collins voted with Trump to cover up the Epstein Files. She knew 14-year-old girls were raped.” The idea behind wording it that way is apparently to personalize how the GOP villain “knew” about the supposed mass rape of 14 year olds, and yet still did Trump’s bidding to cover it up. (Even though literally all of them, with the exception of a single outlier in the House, ultimately voted in favor of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which is what unleashed the tornado of “files” everyone claims to have wanted so badly.)
Also see this DCCC memo, dated September 17, 2026:
[Wisconsin GOP Congressman] Bryan Steil is part of the problem in Washington – another swampy career politician doing the bidding of his special interest donors at the expense of Wisconsin families.
Voters in the Milwaukee media market need to see ads on broadcast TV, voters districtwide need to see ads on streaming and digital platforms, especially YouTube, and voters district wide, but especially in the Madison media market, need to read mail about how:
Steil voted against releasing the Epstein files three separate times, protecting powerful pedophiles from accountability even after learning that Epstein’s sex trafficking operation exploited girls as young as fourteen years old, all while taking over sixty-five thousand dollars in campaign cash from people whose names appear in the Epstein files.
To the degree that DC party organs can give out marching orders, the marching order was clearly given this year to rub Epstein in every Republican’s face — the more saturation-level bombardment the better. And while you’re at it, make sure to play up the poll-tested talking point that “Republicans knew 14-year-olds were raped, but still wouldn’t release the files!” Mic drop!
By the way: a total of zero 14-year-olds were ever adjudicated to have been “raped” by Jeffrey Epstein. Despite the DCCC documentation that nominally purports to substantiate this whopper of a charge. But whatever, right? All’s fair in the Pedo Panic! Enjoy.
I didn't vote, and I would feel dirty if I ever did again, but I'm proud to be your supporter. Cheers to you, sir.
Jeff has surely served at least one intelligence agency more than we will ever know, but credibly speculate about. I see everything else as distraction and speculation of a highly pecuniary nature.