Nancy Pelosi's unprecedented gamble of holding fire on Trump's impeachment is paying off in spades

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• House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made an unprecedented and risky call when she held off on forwarding articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate last month.
• It sparked a political firestorm, and in the weeks since she has been criticized heavily.
• But it looks like Pelosi's gamble paid off.
• Since she decided to delay the process, there have been at least 10 developments that have raised the stakes of the impeachment trial and forced the GOP into a corner.
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As soon as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi decided last month to withhold the transmission of articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, critics asked whether it would be worth the risk.

The California Democrat made a historically unprecedented decision when she refused to transmit the articles to the Senate, the process which triggers an impeachment trial.

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