It’s moot anyway. The “people of the US” don’t select the president. The people of each state select which candidate their state will vote for. i.e. the states select the president. If a president barely wins enough states to give him the number of electors necessary, he wins, even if his opponent won his states in a landslide. It just means a few states really, really wanted candidate A, while a lot of states slightly preferred candidate B over candidate B. So candidate B won.
It’s also why a baseball team with less hits can still win a game, depending on the hit spread in innings.
I know.