Key swing state spells trouble for Republicans as GOP voters buck party over handling of Epstein

While Democratic primary voters in the swing state of Georgia are overwhelmingly dissatisfied with the lack of transparency from President Donald Trump’s administration on releasing the files related to late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, more surprising is the rise in the number of frustrated Republicans, according to a new poll in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

When Trump suddenly backpedaled on campaign promises to release the files over the summer, many of his supporters were outraged.

"Trump essentially told advocates pressing for more details to move on, triggering a bipartisan push in the U.S. House to force a vote that could make public more documents from the federal investigation," the AJC notes.

CNN's Aaron Blake said the administration's promises of transparency were empty.

"What we do know is that the administration has responded to a bipartisan outcry over its handling of the matter by repeatedly doing things that might seem on paper like significant steps toward transparency, but have proven to be far less than meets the eye. Many of them point to what a judge recently suggested was the 'illusion' of transparency," Blake says.

The latest AJC poll questioned voters on the handling of the Epstein probe, which, they write, "has yielded a slew of conspiracy theories despite Trump's nothing-to-see-here approach."

One of those conspiracy theories came directly from Trump, who in a July press conference "claimed there were credibility issues with the documents, suggesting without citing evidence they were 'made up' by former FBI Director James Comey and former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, both Democrats," reported the AP.

The results of the latest AJC poll show that the frustration over the Epstein cover-up, "isn’t confined to the left."

"Among likely Democratic primary voters, the reaction is overwhelming," the AJC says. "About 90 percent say they are dissatisfied with the amount of information released about the case."

Most revealing, however, is the Republican results in which "more than one-third of likely GOP primary voters say they’re not content with the disclosure so far, including 15 percent who are very dissatisfied."

In a split with her party, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has pushed for greater transparency into the crimes of Epstein and his co-conspirators. In September 2025, she held a bipartisan press conference alongside Epstein survivors and other members of Congress to call for the release of all files held by the FBI, Department of Justice and CIA.

"Dangling bits of red meat no longer satisfies," Greene posted on her X account in July, noting Trump's supporters wanted more than just partial action on the Epstein investigation.