US Election & Presidency

He doesn't want the vote to happen - it's going to happen.

He doesn't want the vote to succeed - it looks increasingly likely it will succeed, possibly by a large majority, latest reports suggest 100 republicans may support it.

It looks like he is desperately changing his position in an attempt to get ahead of the inevitable, trying to make the whole thing look less embarrassing for himself.
I doubt there's anything earth shattering in these files, if there was it would have come out by now. The dems had four years to go through and find dirt and came up empty, so why the great reluctance to just release them and move on, who knows.

the fact he is turning on MTG because she is pushing the release is so damming