A marathon, 12-hour first day in the Senate impeachment trial against President Donald Trump ended with Democrats suffering more than handful of losses.

Senate Republicans blocked eight amendment resolutions from Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democrats by a vote of 47-53.

Every single Republican and all Democrats voted along party lines.

Schumer wanted to amend the trial rules offered by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to immediately subpoena former National Security Advisor John Bolton, other witnesses, and documents from regarding Trump’s conversations with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

McConnell’s rules, which were eventually adopted in a 53-47 party-line vote at 1:40 a.m. ET Wednesday, largely mirror those from the Bill Clinton impeachment trial in 1999, permit new witnesses and documents to be considered only later on in the proceedings, after opening arguments are made.

So what happens next?

Under these new rules, consideration of additional evidence can not be introduced or voted on until after House impeachment managers and Trump’s defense lawyers have presented their cases.

Trump’s legal team, led by White House counsel Pat Cipollone, argued the House impeachment investigation was partisan, lacked due process, and took shortcuts to speed up the inquiry.

Trump’s lawyers argued that the Senate should not be forced to fix the shortcomings of the House impeachment proceedings.

“Never before in the history of our country has a president been confronted with this kind of impeachment proceeding in the House,” Cipollone argued before the Senate.

At this point, almost everything has come to fruition. We know how this is going to play out.

Trump will be completely acquitted and fully exonerated in the Senate because the Democrats case is incredibly weak.

There’s nothing Democrats can do.

Democrats are complaining about McConnell possibly holding an unfair investigation, but that’s literally what Democrats just did for three months.

Democrats are whining, issuing ridiculous demands, and already claiming the process is “rigged.”

They have accused Trump of just about everything imaginable, and after months of wasting taxpayer dollars to hold impeachment hearings, they still can’t prove the president did anything wrong.

And McConnell has already revealed exactly what’s going to happen when the impeachment trial gets going in the Senate.

In fact, McConnell has said if senators — particularity 2020 Democrats desperate for attention — violate the rules on his watch, they will be arrested and jailed by the Sergeant at Arms.

Voters will punish the Democrats in 2020 for trying to impeach Trump for no reason at all.