Since the DAY the Constitution was ratified the President has been ELECTED via the electoral college. Pretty simply concept. Each State has x amount of electors, in order to win you need more then half of them to vote for you. How do you get electors? By winning State elections on Election day. Except 2 States all States have winner take all elector rules.
If Hillary Clinton was TOO STUPID to campaign in enough States to win them then the people DID IN FACT vote in Trump. The popular vote is meaningless EXCEPT inside an individual State. It does not matter if the entire state of New York and California vote for one person you need to win in enough States to garner enough electoral votes.
Whelp, that's not accurate either.
Take that infamous trio of states that pushed Rump over the hump in 2016 by a combined margin of 77,000 votes, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan. *NOBODY* won the state vote of any of those states. Nor did anybody win this state (North Carolina). Nor did any candidate with the vote of Florida, Virginia, Minnesota, Colorado, Arizona or Utah. Yet every one sent 100% of their electoral votes to a candidate who could not win even half that state's vote.
From what I can see, Trump won higher percentages in those states and most states have winner take all rules. Seems fair enough. If Hillary wins a higher percentage in Florida she gets all the electoral votes.
They won pluralities, not majorities in all those states. Less than 50% of the vote, and 100% of the EVs.
No way that's not just fucked up. And the fact that both candies benefited from the same fucked-up system doesn't make it less fucked-up; rather it makes it doublefuckedup.