Loose Banos, California – – – As far as President Trump is concerned, Angie Zamora and Phaidra co -ranges very little.

Zamora, a 36-year-old veteran of the army, has nothing good to say.

“The laws. All the rights taken away from women. The things with ice,” Zamora said, marking her frustrations as she stopped outside the Post Office in the Central Valley community of Los Banos. “Why are they going to people who work on farms if they are supposed to pursue violent criminals?”

Mediros, on the other hand, is delighted that Trump has replaced Joe Biden. “He was not mentally fit,” fellowiros said of the elderly former president. “There was something wrong with him from the beginning.”

In spite of all this, the two one conviction shares: Both say the government needs every last bit of information it has about Jeffrey Epstein, his bad crimes and the mighty co -workers who have moved in his deviant orbit, should cough.

Trump “made his entire campaign on the release of the Epstein files,” Zamora said. “And now he’s trying to change the subject.” Ah, it’s a ‘hoax’ … ‘oh, you’re still talking about that creep? ” And yet there are pictures of him with that creep over the years. “

Mediros (56) reflects the sentiment.

Trump and his fellow Republicans “put themselves in this distress because they are constantly talking” about the urgency to profane records in Epstein’s sex trading case to take control of the Justice and the rest of Washington. “Now,” she said, “they’re sitting back.”

Mediros stops outside the engineering firm where she works in the central valley, in Newman, in a tree-rich street, decorated with star-distributed banners in honor of local servicemen and women.

“It was clear that there were minors involved” in the crimes of Epstein, she said, and if Trump is somehow involved, “he must also go off.”

Years after he was found dead in a Prison in Manhattan-according to his own hand, it appears that Epstein did the almost impossible in this deep inhabited nation. He is United Democrats, Republicans and independents around a call to reveal everything known about his case once and for all.

“He is dead now, but if people were involved, they should be prosecuted,” said Joe Toscano, a 69-year-old Los Banos pensioner and non-associated voter who supported Trump’s return to the White House last year. ‘Bring it all out there. Make it reveal. ‘

The 13th Congress District in California, where Zamora, Mediros and Toscano all live, is probably the most fighting political field in America. Through the Midriff of California, from the distant reach of the San Francisco Bay area to the southern edge of the San Joaquin Valley, it is farmland: flat, fertile and crossed cards with channels, rail lines and thruways with utilitaristic names such as Pad No. 32 and Avenue 18½.

The many small towns are short interim amid the dairy and poultry farms and lush carpet of vegetables, fruit and nut trees that extend to the waose brown horizon. The most populated city, Merced, has less than 100,000 inhabitants. (Modesto, with a population of about 220,000, is divided between the 5th and 13th districts.)

Democratic rep. Adam Gray was elected in the nearest housing race in the country in November and beat Republican incumbents, John Duarte, with 187 votes out of nearly 211,000 cast. The beep was a re -broadcast and almost a repetition. Two years earlier, Duarte Gray defeated with less than 600 votes out of nearly 134,000 cast.

It is not surprising that both parties made a top goal in 2026 in 2026; Handicappers judge the competition a stir, even if the field sorts out itself. (Duarte said he wouldn’t run again.)

The mid -term election is far, so it is impossible to say how the controversy of Epstein will play politically. But there is at least a basic expectation of transparency, a view that has been repeatedly expressed in conversations with three dozen voters across the district.

Zachery Ramos, a 25-year-old independent, is the founder of the Gustine Traveling Library, which promotes learning and literacy throughout the Central Valley. The shop, painted with polka dots and decorated with giant butterflies, sits like a cheerful oasis in Gustine’s four block in the city center, a riot of green that is from the planter boxes to the front.

Inside, the walls were filled with praise and newspaper clippings in celebration of Ramos’s good works. As a non -profit organization, he said: ‘We must have everything there. All the books. Everything.’

Epstein, he suggests, should not be treated otherwise.

“If it came to something as serious as that, with what might have happened on his private island, with his girlfriend, ‘ – convicted sex trader Ghislaine Maxwell -‘ I think it should all be in public, ‘Ramos said. “If you’re not afraid your name is in [the files]Especially if you are dealing with minors assaulted, it must be made 100% public. “

Ed, a 42-year-old Democrat who runs a warehouse operation in Patterson, noted that Trump released the government’s next-of-sher files about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., although King’s family objected. (Like several of the interrogators, he did not want to give his family name, to prevent him from struggling by readers who did not like what he had to say.)

Why, Wonder Ed, shouldn’t the Epstein files come to light? “It wasn’t just Trump,” he said. “It was many Republicans in the congress who said, ‘Hey, we want to get these files there. ‘And I believe as Kamala [Harris] If they won, they would defeat her and demand that she do it. ‘

He hits a fist in his palm to emphasize the point.

Sue, a Republican Madera and no fan of Trump, expressed her feelings in Staccato Bursts of Fury.

“Apparently the women said years ago who does what, but no one is listening to the women,” the 75-year-old pensioner said. “Let go of it all! Absolutely! You play, you pay, buddy. ‘

Even those who rejected the importance of Epstein and his crimes said that the government should hold nothing back – if only to eradicate doubt and rest the matter.

Epstein “is gone and I don’t really care if they release the files or not,” says Diane Nunes, a 74-year-old Republican who holds the books for her family farm, who lies halfway between Los Banos and Gustine. “But they probably have to do it, because a lot of people are waiting for it.”

Patrick, a construction contractor, worked more about the “pretty boy” Gavin Newsom and “Nazi Pelosi” – “Yes, that’s what I call her” – than anything that can look in the Epstein files. “If the cat is dead, you don’t pick it up and pet it. He gestures to the sidewalk and bakes while the temperature in Patterson climbs into the low 90s.

“It’s over,” the 61-year-old Republican said of Epstein and his villain. ‘Go on.’

At least that would be his preference. But to ‘keep everyone closed, absolutely, yes, they have to release them,’ Patrick said. “Otherwise, we’re all going to speculate forever.”

Or at least until the polls close in November 2026.