{"id":80737,"date":"2026-10-31T10:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T15:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/31\/ads-accusing-republican-candidates-of-protecting-epstein-fill-airwaves-in-final-midterm-push\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T10:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T15:55:07","slug":"ads-accusing-republican-candidates-of-protecting-epstein-fill-airwaves-in-final-midterm-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/31\/ads-accusing-republican-candidates-of-protecting-epstein-fill-airwaves-in-final-midterm-push\/","title":{"rendered":"Ads accusing Republican candidates of protecting Epstein fill airwaves in final midterm push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But select Democrats, too, are being accused of having ties to the late sex offender as country prepares to vote<\/p>\n<p>In races across the country, Democratic candidates or groups that support them have released ads accusing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/republicans\">Republicans<\/a> of protecting pedophiles by voting against legislation to release files related to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/jeffrey-epstein\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The ads appear intended to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/22\/trump-epstein-tucker-carlson-turning-point-usa\">evoke an emotional response <\/a>by accusing candidates of \u201cprotecting\u201d Epstein, a notorious pedophile accused of running a sex-trafficking ring involving minors.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/31\/political-ads-midterms-epstein-republican-candidate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But select Democrats, too, are being accused of having ties to the late sex offender as country prepares to vote In races across the country, Democratic candidates or groups that support them have released ads accusing Republicans of protecting pedophiles by voting against legislation to release files related to Jeffrey Epstein. The ads appear intended &#8230; <a title=\"Ads accusing Republican candidates of protecting Epstein fill airwaves in final midterm push\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/31\/ads-accusing-republican-candidates-of-protecting-epstein-fill-airwaves-in-final-midterm-push\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ads accusing Republican candidates of protecting Epstein fill airwaves in final midterm push\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}