Hillary Clinton surpasses 1M popular vote lead over Donald Trump

To compare, when George W. Bush narrowly won the presidency in 2000, he did so while losing the popular vote by 543,895.

Whatever the case, Trump won more states and that translates to more Electoral College votes.

The President-elect won 290 electoral votes, 20 more than the required 270 to become president in this year’s election.

Trump has captured 290 Electoral College votes to 232 for Clinton with MI still undecided, the Times says.

If you think this inconsistency can be explained by the four-year gap between the set of tweets (as well as the obvious fact that Trump’s victory in 2016 can be exclusively attributed to the Electoral College), guess again.

Four years ago, Trump called the Electoral College “a disaster for a democracy”, in a tweet sent on November 6, 2012.

“I think that’s awful”, says Rhymes when asked about people wanting electors to switch their vote. Thank you for listening. Campaigning is much different!’ the president-elect tweeted Tuesday morning.

But technically, the Electoral College doesn’t vote until December 19, and the electors have the power to choose Clinton instead of Trump – thus overturning the “results” of the election.

“In my lifetime, I have seen two elections where the victor of the general election did not win the popular vote”, Boxer said in a statement. But they would have to convince 37 Republicans to vote against Trump and no one thinks that is going to happen.

On Tuesday, after his win, Trump tweeted that he had changed his mind and he now believed the Electoral College was “actually genius” because “it brings all states, including the smaller ones, into play”.

Theoretically, Trump could still lose the race to the White House if enough members of the Electoral College change their votes for Clinton.

Donald Trump got fewer votes for president than Hillary Clinton, which means that he’s our president-elect purely because of the Electoral College.

Those calls came as Clinton’s lead in the popular vote kept going up this weekend. A reasonable argument can be made for restructuring the Electoral College to more accurately reflect the results of the popular vote, he said.

The Electoral College also guarantees that the most populous states don’t dictate to the rest of us. If they do, and everything works as planned, then whoever wins the popular vote will necessarily win the electoral vote too.