Trump also won by the popular vote, something the press just can’t seem to understand.
Where are you getting that figure that Trump won by the popular vote, I have not seen it on any credible web site. Bottom line, the popular vote has NOTHING to do with an election in the USA and for GOOD REASON!
So if we get rid of the electoral college, why would ANYBODY campaign or care about anything other than the major population centers?
NOBODY would go or care about NH, Maine, Ohio, Indiana, Montana, Utah, etc etc.
FACE IT. The founders KNEW what they were doing.
The electoral college is here to stay, 38 states would have to vote against it which is not happening. So arguing to abolish it is like arguing to stop the sun from rising in the morning, all the whining and complaining won’t change the reality that it is.
Whether he did or not is moot. What people don’t seem to understand is that the campaigning is done BASED ON CAPTURING THE ELECTORAL VOTE and not the popular vote. If the goal was to get the popular vote, the campaigns would run DIFFERENTLY. Strategy would be DIFFERENT.
Trump spent very little time campaigning in CA and almost nothing on local TV here. If the popular vote was the goal, he would have spent more time here — not expecting to win a majority but to pare away millions of Clinton votes. Since the electoral votes were a lost cause in CA, more time and money here would have been wasted.