[Lakeside Granny]

Thank you for this info.

There are a few on thread that have felt the House will impeach and then will hold it, not send to the Senate for trial.

See this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3797793/posts?page=1106#1106

My question is could this happen or will it automatically go to the Senate for trial?

[Publius]

The House can vote to impeach any time it has the majority vote to do so. It can be very soon, during the presidential campaign, or even the day before the election.

But as soon as Articles of Impeachment are voted by the House and delivered to the Senate, the trial begins and all other work stops.

[Rusty0604]

President Trump is reelected, republicans hold the Senate, democrats hold the House
Democrats avoid subjecting themselves to a senate trial by saying the impeachment stands as is because it cannot be handed over from one congress to the next for a trial.

President Trump is reelected, democrats hold the House and take the Senate
Democrats could hand off the the impeachment for trial to a democrat senate in 2020.
Republicans might try to claim the impeachment cannot carry over to a new congress but democrats would just laugh at them.

This agrees with Vlad’s position that the Democrats make up the rules as they go alongm