We still don’t officially have a president yet, though Joe Biden is leading and appears to have an excellent chance of defeating Donald Trump. That’s good. Let’s hope that will become official soon.

What’s not so good is that the much-desired resounding repudiation of Trump and his lying, incompetent ways did not materialize. The Democrats did not create anything resembling a landslide, and they failed to get control of the Senate and lost a few seats in the House. The results are hardly bad news, but they suggest our fractured, partisan Congress will continue to function intermittently if at all.

Biden will have won the popular vote by a very convincing margin, and — apparently — the electoral college by a decent margin. None of that matters to Trump, of course, who continues to spout false claims about voting fraud in the states he didn’t win. Nary a word about voting in the states he won, however.

He just can’t stand being a loser in spite of the oft-evident fact that he is precisely that. What else is new. What remains ahead of us is learning how disruptive Trump will be in the remaining 70-plus days of his administration. And assuming Biden is elected as we believe, how will Trump handle the official turnover on January 20?

Meantime back in Connecticut, we had some wins and losses. Biden of course, won the state in a near-landslide. Democrats picked up more seats in the state Senate and the House, giving them very solid majorities in each. Regrettably the Democratic House candidates in the Litchfield area that I endorsed lost.

Rep. Jahana Hayes won re-election to the US House and did all Democrats running, so that is excellent news.

Now we wait the presidential election returns…..