When they do the final vote to push the paperwork off to the Senate...I will go and predict that 20 Democrats either abstain or vote against it. It might pass, with just two or three votes to spare.
A lot of Dems will be absent in order to tidy up their sock drawers on the day that vote is taken. Prior commitments don’t you know?
They’re only three options at this point
one vote to impeach
two table the whole thing
Three censure
Obviously stretch Pelosi will not put the vote up without knowing it will pass
The Democrats have some 230 something members
The big question is will they try to ram it through with only 218 or 219?
I don’t think so
Votes are permanent records for all of history and they’re still pointing out the folly of the attempt to impeach Johnson back in the 1860s
Dick Nixon resigned when the Republicans told him he would be impeached and removed
Bill Clinton was impeached for serious crimes perjury obstruction of justice lying to a grand jury and a number of other things and they could’ve had more
So we shall see but as I’ve stated they only really have three choices at this point