As southern Arizona voters in the state’s 7th congressional district head to the polls Tuesday to fill a vacancy in the U.S. House, they are poised to revive a major headache for House Speaker Mike Johnson and the Trump administration.

Both the Democratic frontrunner, Adelita Grijalva, and her Republican challenger, Daniel Butierez, have publicly expressed their intent to provide the deciding signature on the discharge petition to circumvent Johnson and force a House vote on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files.

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    Will it? Even if they DO release the files (a big “if”), the right is too occupied with Charlie Kirk to care. Actually, if they think that the files would come out eventually anyway, this would arguably be an ideal time to drop them.

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      What are they going to do when Kirk’s name shows up in the Epstein files?

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        Take this with a grain of salt because I’ve only seen it mentioned once or twice and have done minimal research of my own, but it’s more likely that his wife had some involvement than he did. She was involved with recruiting women for “beauty pageants” in parts of the world where there have been complaints of women being trafficked, sometimes to “private islands”…

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          A pick me child sex trafficker. Now I am starting to see why the right thinks she would be a good next presidential candidate.