Get ready for the annual Not-Totally-Serious Forecast for the new year Past performance is no indication of future results. Wishing good riddance to 2020, it’s time for the annual Not-Totally-Serious Forecast for 2021. For the record, last year this exercise predicted that Donald Trump would lose reelection — but to Pete Buttigieg — and that Joe Biden would become secretary of state, and offered nary a word about a global pandemic. Who’s perfect? January: Democrats narrowly win two Georgia Senate seats; Republicans demand recount of mail ballots. With Vice President Mike Pence inexplicably absent, Senate President Pro Tem Chuck Grassley presides as Congress formalizes Biden’s victory.