CNN: ":"\u003cstrong>The leverage she imagined she possessed to get Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to agree to her wishes didn't exist\u003c/strong>", "BANNER=|pagerendered| ((lubuntu at la65))

" , title: "CNN - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos" , siblings: {"articleList":[{"uri":"/2020/01/14/politics/nancy-pelosi-mitch-mcconnnell/index.html","headline":"\u003cstrong>The leverage she imagined she possessed to get Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to agree to her wishes didn't exist\u003c/strong>","thumbnail":"//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191210191814-pelosi-for-opinion-small-11.jpg","duration":"","description":"Speaker Nancy Pelosi's \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2020/01/14/politics/nancy-pelosi-impeachment-meeting/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">announcement Tuesday\u003c/a> that the full House would vote on sending the articles of impeachment against Donald Trump to the Senate this week -- a move that will formally trigger the start of the trial against the President in the upper chamber -- amounts to a stark concession that her plan to delay that action for nearly a month failed.","layout":""