Michael Gold

I think it's an example of a time when President Trump has tapped into these cultural forces, but now that he's in the highest office of the land, they are turning in a direction that he didn't expect.

I think for Democrats...

They are connecting this issue to affordability.

You know, they've been saying for a while that President Trump and Republicans are protecting the interests of elites, of billionaires, and that they're not looking out for the regular people.

And they see the Epstein issue as part of that, as another case of President Trump protecting billionaires rather than providing transparency that people really want.

But the other thing here is that this issue is one of the first times that Democrats have successfully been able to split Republicans and to divide some of them from President Trump.

And so even though they just had these big wins in New Jersey and Virginia and New York that many attributed to a message of affordability, this is a case where they can't resist an opportunity to poke at the Republican Party, make them look weak, and put them on the defense.