Back on topic....
Feldman says that if pelosi doesn't transmit the articles of impeachment to the Senate, then the Pres isn't actually impeached.
It's rather amusing that Pelosi seems to be demanding a quid pro quo for for this.
The longer they wait to do this, the more the independent voters will suspect that this was not an attempt to "uphold the Constitution", but rather a partisan move to make it easier for their candidate to win the 2020 election using any means necessary, which for me is pretty obvious that is the reason for the impeachment, But the Democrats also know that the impeachment is dead on arrival in the Senate, and the Republicans there have a choice on how they want to proceed with it, whether to just end the impeachment right then, or hold a trial anyway, but more focus on Schiff and the Bidens rather than on Trump, in addition to forcing many of the Democratic challengers to have to stay at Washington as opposed to being able to campaign for their shot at the presidency. I like the latter myself, but if the Senate decides not to do a trial, there will be others that will investigate, so this topic of impeachment is going to be talked about long after it dies out in the Senate.
The Senate, as-is, needs the House to submit the articles as well as representatives from the House before a trial can officially begin, but the Senate could change that if they wish, since they have the votes needed to change how impeachment works in the Senate. What they will do depends on what Pelosi decides to do, since right now she has chosen to hold the articles.
The other thing that can happen is that the articles are not submitted at all, and just dropped...which is ironic since they were so fired up about impeachment in the first place that it would look really bad on them if they did that, meaning it was even more of a political play than any attempt at "justice". Either way you look at it, the Democrats have backed themselves into a corner, with both ways to get out of said corner potentially very damaging to them, and staying in said corner also damaging. The smart move was not to do this in the first place, but I think Pelosi and the others gave in to the radicalized portion of the party that really should have joined the Socialist party in the first place...ah, but third parties do not do very well in this country, so that option was out.
Couple what's going on with candidates that are not very strong to go against Trump, and it makes perfect sense why they went through with this: they stand no chance unless they are able to convince voters to vote Democrat, and I do believe they have succeeded somewhat in this due to many factors, but maybe not enough since they have alienated many of the independents that do follow politics, even if it was very painful this year to follow politics. Again, I am just stating my opinions on the matter, but I have not seen anything by the Democrats to convince me to change my mind on the topic of impeachment, and in fact I have a very negative opinion of the party now.