Yes, Trump did, but that doesn’t make it a good idea. The Founding Fathers system of checks and balances in the Constitution is a network of protection of the individual. The Popular Vote would be the opposite, protect the majority at the expense of the current minority rights. State elections would have no meaning, there would be one central election. Cheating would get even easier. It also moves away from voter and minority rights and toward socialist style central govt, which just needs 50.01% to rule, with no rights for up to 49.99%.
I am all in for the electoral college, but it is hard to listen to someone trying to save the deep state bureaucracy when they also lost the popular vote.
The country should not be dictated to by the denizens of Manhattan and the weirdos on the left coast.