Los Banos, California – When it comes to President Trump, Angie Zamora and Phaidra Medeiros almost agreed.
Zamora is a 36-year-old veteran who has nothing to say.
Zamora said: “The law. All rights are taken away from women. “When violent criminals should be chased, why do they follow people working on the farm? ”
Medeiros, by contrast, is glad that Trump replaced Joe Biden. “He is not mentally healthy,” Medros said of the former president in his senior year. “From the beginning, he had something wrong.”
Still, both do have a belief: both say the government should make up for the last message about Jeffrey Epstein, his dirty misconduct and the powerful staff moving on his unusual track.
Zamora said Trump “had a whole campaign to release the Epstein archive.” “Now he’s trying to change the subject.’ Oh, it’s a ‘scam’…’ Oh, are you still talking about that creep?” However, over the years, he’s had that creep picture. ”
Medeiros, 56, responded to his emotions.
Trump and his Republicans “put themselves in trouble because they kept talking about it,” the urgency of the record announced in Epstein’s sex trafficking case — until they controlled the Justice Department and other parts of Washington. “Now,” she said, “they are supporting.”
Medeiros stopped outside the engineering company she worked in the Central Valley of Newman and was on a tree-lined street decorated with star-striped roads decorated with star-striped flags in honor of local soldiers and women.
“Obviously, Epstein’s crimes involved minors,” she said, and if Trump somehow implies “then he needs to drop, too.”
According to authorities, several years after being found dead in a Manhattan prison – killed by his own hands – Epstein seemed to have done something nearly impossible in this deep nation. He is a United Democrat, Republican and Independent, centering around revealing everything he knows about his case once and for all.
Epstein and his attorney saw in court that he was found dead in a prison cell while waiting to prosecute a sex crime.
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“He’s dead now, but if people get involved, they should be prosecuted,” said Los Banos retiree and unaffiliated voter Joe Toscano, 69. “Bring everything there. Public.”
The 13th Congressional District of California, Zamora, Mediros and Tuscano, all live here, and is arguably the closest political terrain to fight in the United States. From the distance to the San Francisco Bay area to the southern edge of the San Joaquin Valley, it is spread across California’s Midriff, and its farm countries: flat, fertile and cross-matched canals, rail lines and figures with utilitarianism, such as Route 32 and Route 32 and 18½ Avenue.
On the carpet of dairy and poultry farms and lush greenery, fruit and nut trees, countless small towns are briefly inserted, extending to the hazy brown horizon. Merced, the most populous city, has less than 100,000 residents. (Modesto population is approximately 220,000, distributed between zones 5 and 13.)
Democratic Rep. Adam Gray was elected in the country’s most recent House match in November, beating Republican incumbent John Duarte to vote with 187 votes in nearly 211,000 shows. The squeak was a rematch, almost rerunning. Duarte beat Gray with less than 600 votes in nearly 134,000 actors two years ago.
It is no surprise that both sides make District 13 the highest target in 2026. The obstacles evaluate the game as a game, even if the fields fade away. (Duarte said he won’t run anymore.)
The midterm elections still have a long way to go, so it is impossible to say that Epstein’s controversy will play a political role. But there is at least one benchmark expectation of transparency, a view that is repeatedly expressed in conversations with thirty voters across the region.
Tractor clears rows in orchards in Mercedes orchards.
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Zachery Ramos, a 25-year-old independent independent, is the founder of Gustine Travel Library, which promotes learning and literacy throughout the Central Valley. Its storefront is painted with dots and decorated with giant butterflies, just like an oasis in the center of the four blocks of Gustine, with green riots spilling in the seeder box in front.
Inside, the walls are filled with praise and newspaper clippings, celebrating Ramos’s good works. As a nonprofit, he said: “We have to put everything there. All the books. Everything.”
He suggested that Epstein should not be treated differently.
“When something that’s involved with his girlfriend on his private island, something that might or may not have happened,” Ramos said. “If you’re not afraid of your name,” he said. [the files]especially when you deal with minors, should be 100% public. ”
Ed, a 42-year-old Democrat who runs warehouse operations in Patterson, noted that despite King’s family’s objection, Trump released the administration’s long-standing secret archives about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (Like a few people interviewed, he refused to reveal his last name to avoid being confused by readers who don’t like what he says.)
Ed wonders, why shouldn’t Epstein files light up? “It’s not just Trump,” he said. “There are a lot of Republicans in Congress saying, ‘Hey, we want to put these documents there.’ I believe if Kamara [Harris] If you win, they will beat her up and ask her to do so. ”
He punched his palm to emphasize this.
With a population of about 70,000, Madera is one of the largest communities in District 13.
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Sue, a Madera Republican and a Trump fan, expressed his feelings in his intermittent anger.
“Obviously, women from a few years ago said who was doing what, but no one listened to these women.” “Release all! Absolutely! You play, pay, partner.”
Even those who refute Epstein and the importance of his crimes say the government should not refuse – if only to eliminate doubts and raise questions to rest.
Epstein “Go away, I really don’t care if they release the documents,” said Diane Nunes, a 74-year-old Republican, who kept the books for her family farm, half of the time between Los Banos and Dustin. “But they probably should, because a lot of people are waiting.”
Patrick is a construction contractor who works harder on “pretty boy” Gavin Newsom and “Nazi Pelosi” (“Yes, that’s what I call her”) than anything lurking in the Epstein archives. “When the cat dies, you won’t pick it up and pamper it. Right?” he motioned to the sidewalk, as Patterson’s temperature rose to the 90s.
“It’s over,” the 61-year-old Republican said of Epstein and his villain. “Keep going.”
At least, that would be his preference. But, “Absolutely, yes, they should release them,” Patrick said. “Otherwise, we will all be guessing forever.”
Or at least until November 2026 polls are conducted.
