"Are they threatening to withhold the articles of impeachment?" he told The Hill. "That doesn't accomplish their intended goal. That just means we won't be having a trial."

McConnell, asked by a Washington Examiner reporter about a potential delay, similarly shrugged it off, saying, "I'm in no hurry."

Republicans quickly knocked talk by some House Democrats of delaying transmitting articles of impeachment againstto the Senate, warning that the pressure tactic would backfire.The idea of delaying sending the impeachment articles to the Senate first surfaced last week when Democrats began talking about asking Speaker(D-Calif.) to hold articles of impeachment in the House until McConnell agrees to a fair rules package for a Senate trial.