Given they never dreamed or seriously considered they'd get 2/3 in the senate, it's then useful to ask what the real motivations were. What were they actually trying to accomplish? I think a motive that has to be considered is that they are actually quite confused, and do not have clear motives.
I think the House was thinking more about the case they were presenting to the country than the Senate.
Also, they put a lot of republican senators in swing states in an undesirable situation by making them actually pick a side on something they have always defaulted to political non-answers when asked about. It's pretty common in congress to propose and force a vote on something that you know doesn't have a chance of passing just to get a record of it...
That's all true but there is another factor. In typical work of the Congress and Senate, the members don't get much public exposure. Sure, some more than others. Rand Paul consistently gets a bit of media time, month in month out. But big media shows like the impeachment "trial" is big exposure like a politician only dreams about.
In that situation, that's a rational, although disgusting, reason why Schiff might have wanted to draw it out longer. FREE PUBLICITY FOR ME!!! ME!!!
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Also, they put a lot of republican senators in swing states in an undesirable situation by making them actually pick a side on something they have always defaulted to political non-answers when asked about. The major effect of this 3 1/2 year long non-stop "Orange man bad" that I see has been to seriously piss off a lot of moderate and conservative and independent voters and they are going to make their voices known. I would be happy to say, "That was brilliant, that move!" but it seems here time after time these Democrat strategists (or whatever) are making decisions seemingly very amateurish and often wrong.
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All in all, I'm not comprehending what the witnesses were intended to accomplish and for what goal.
The whole trial was on whether or not Trump did something bad, and how bad it was.
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[/quote]Well, that's what I asserted earlier. More and more of the manic "Trump bad orange man" meme.