Clinton leads Trump by 2 million votes

Donald Trump won with 290 electoral college votes against Hillary Clinton with 230 electoral college votes, however, Clinton is winning over popular vote with a lead margin of 2 million votes according to Heavy.

Before that compiled count, Trump held a 13,107 lead over Clinton.

While the nation’s attention has already shifted to Donald Trump’s moves as president-elect, his share of the total vote continues to decrease. According to mot recent reports, Hillary Clinton had outstripped her rival Donald Trump by two million votes.

Trump won numerous states by relatively small margins, while Clinton, a former USA secretary of state who was looking to become the country’s first female president, piled up a huge vote count edge in California and NY. If Clinton had won all three of those states, then she would have had enough electoral votes to win the election.

Trump has carried historically Democratic areas, from Erie, Pennsylvania, to Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties in Washington, the only two Evergreen State counties that voted for Democrat George McGovern in 1972. The petition, named “Electoral College: Make Hillary Clinton President on december 19”, has crossed over 4.5 million signatures.

According to The Guardian, Green Party candidate Jill Stein has succeeded in raising over $4.5 million to request recounts in three battleground states, including MI.

As many as 7,143,347 votes went to third party, write-ins, or independent candidates, the data revealed.

But that system lasted only a couple of decades, before states began holding statewide popular elections and binding their electors to those outcomes, effectively short-circuiting the Founders’ plan.

The Constitution does not require electors to vote for or even consider the actual presidential candidates.

Without getting into the complexities of the Electoral College, the lead of its story is that a candidate can garner the most votes nationwide and still not be president.

Since his election victory, Trump has defended the Electoral College, despite calling the system a “disaster for a democracy” in 2012.