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Impeachment and removal from office are two separate things.
The House impeaches, the Senate tries and removes.

Slick Willie was impeached by the House. Tried in the Senate & didn’t get the 2/3rds need for removal. (Note not a criminal trial!)

A Bill of Impeachment takes a simple majority in the House.
I knew this was coming the day after the 2018 midterms.
Senate trial with a 2/3s vote for removal I just don’t see happening for a number of reasons.

Rat goal on all of this is to draw an equivalency between Slick & Trump. They have their IPOTS, if they succeed the we will have ours!

The Democrats are still in a box. It's pretty clear that the Senate will not remove Trump-it would blow up the GOP for a generation, if it ever recovered. And even though the current GOP doesn't really like Trump, they still hate the Democrats and will not hand them a win like this.

But if the House votes for impeachment before the holiday break, the Senate trial starts right during the beginning of primary season, and that throws all sorts of monkey wrenches into the mix. And, a Trump exoneration in late January or February puts the wind at his back for the rest of the 2020 campaign.

On the other hand, if the House holds on to impeachment and tries to time it later in the campaign, it is certain that the public, which already is not that interested, will be completely bored.

The bottom line, for the Democrats, there is no good time for a Senate trial, and Pelosi knows it. Even this inquiry isn't getting much traction outside the political junkie class.