I suspect the speaker may believe that releasing the impeachment articles next week sticks a shiv in Bernie's back — and by proxy in Ocasio-Cortez' — and will relish every minute of it.
Is Pelosi Timing the Impeachment Articles' Release so as to Damage Bernie?
The conventional wisdom regarding Nancy Pelosi's holding of the impeachment articles is that, as someone put it, she'd pulled the pin on the grenade and then didn't know what to do. Yet even if she has bumbled into her current predicament, which seems likely, is there now some method to her madness? Has she found a way to turn lemons into at least a thimble of lemonade by using the situation to damage the presidential candidate she doesn't want to see capture the Democratic nomination — burgeoning Bernie Sanders — and help the establishment choice, Joe Biden?