THE LONG COUNT: It could be days before a winner is declared in the Mississippi Senate race and even weeks for Alaska. In Mississippi Democrat Scott Colom leads incumbent Cundy Hyde-Smith by just 1,138 votes. Alaska Democrat Mary Peltola leads incumbent Sen. Daniel Sullivan by just 637 votes and far less that the 50 percent required to be the winner in the state’s ranked-choice vote.

  Democrats so far have 54 seats in the Senate against 44 for Republicans, and 245 to 147 in the House, enough to run the table with more seats yet to be decided.

 On the day after an electoral debacle for the Republican Party, President Trump gave reporters a tour of his ballroom construction, ignoring an election that was a massive repudiation of his leadership. He said the massive Corinthian columns will be the “crème de la crème.”