Right - it was designed to because the President of the United STATES was being elected by those STATES that were separate entities that joined together to form the national in a Union. It’s in the very name, yet they still don’t get it. This guy has no clue, yet I’m sure has plenty of extra letters sitting beside his name so he can make the claim he’s a so-called “expert.”
and they are called the several states in law
CITE- 19 USC Sec. 2601 -EXPCITE- TITLE 19 CHAPTER 14 -HEAD- Sec. 2601. Definitions
(10) The term ‘United States’ includes the several States, the District of Columbia, and any
territory or area the foreign relations for which the United States is responsible.