A sustained polling backlash could affect Trump's reputation and the Republican Party more generally in the November 2026 midterms.

A poll of 1,164 likely voters by Rasmussen Reports found that 56% of likely voters don’t believe that the FBI and the Department of Justice are telling the truth about Epstein.

This unprecedented fracture in the president’s GOP is so seismic in part because Mr. Trump is now being questioned as part of the same deep state conspiracies that he had promised to root out.