First, these pundits and politicians need to stop ascribing to Pelosi her great skills as a politician, leader, and strategist.
She is as dumb as dirt.
Second, the only democrat strategy now in play is to delay long enough to get 4 RINOs to vote with the democrats so that they can claim, in spite of failure to remove, that “a majority of the Senate voted to remove Trump”.
They already have three - Murkowski, Romney, and today, Collins.
There are a lot of potential No. 4s - Lee, Tillis, McSally to name 3.
Republicans only hope is two possible democrats voting present - Jones (AL) and Manchin (WV).
Jones is up in 2020...don’t know about Manchin.