A special election vote slated for Arizona next Tuesday is expected to provide Democrats and renegade Republicans with the last vote needed to force through a discharge petition aimed at releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files — which will put House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) in an untenable position with the Donald Trump administration.

Johnson tried to avoid the inevitable by sending the House on their summer vacation early, which had the net effect of giving supporters of exposing the convicted pedophile’s investigation documentation a chance to round up the last vote they needed.

According to a report from Politico, newcomer Adelita Grijalva is expected to be elected to the seat previously held by her late father Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D) in a district that Trump lost by 22 points in the last election.

The report notes that the likely winner had made it clear that she will vote with her party as well as Republican Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA), Nancy Mace (SC) and Lauren Boebert (CO), with Politico’s Meredith Lee Hill reporting that Johnson appears to be resigned that the battle is lost.

“It’s a controversy that Johnson has been working desperately to snuff out in recent months on behalf of President Donald Trump, who has called the effort a ‘Democrat hoax.’ Now he will have to decide whether to pull rank and settle a fight that has divided his conference or let the matter play out on the House floor,” the report notes, adding that “It would force a floor vote requiring publication of all Justice Department records related to the sex offender, with limited exceptions to protect victims.”

Politico is reporting that he could contest the coming petition in the House Rules Committee, but he has already run into problems related to Epstein there previously and is not expected to want to suffer another humiliating defeat.

“Behind closed doors, Johnson has told Republicans in recent weeks he wouldn’t force the Rules Committee to short-circuit the discharge petition,” Politico’s Hill is reporting, adding that Rep. Riley Moore (R-WV) conceded the battle is lost.

“I don’t think there’s too many options. I think you have to take it up, right?” he admitted.

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