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Final vote tallies from the November 8 election show that Democrat Hillary Clinton out-polled President-elect Donald Trump by 2.8 million votes while losing the contest by a wide margin in the all-important Electoral College.
Her upper hand with voters, however, came down to performances in New York and California that were far stronger than necessary.
Clinton
won California by 4.2 million and took New York by more than 1.6
million. The combined 5.8 million-vote advantage in just those two
states was more than twice the size of her overall edge nationwide.
When the dust settled, she lost the rest of the country by 3 million votes.
BIG WIN: Donald Trump won the presidency
with broad support of a majority of states in the all-important
Electoral College that actually selects America's president and vice
president
SMALL COMFORT: Hillary Clinton collected
more votes than Trump but did it by running up the score in California
and New York, two very liberal states that were virtually guaranteed to
her
Trump tweeted, deleted and
replaced a message Wednesday morning suggesting that the Electoral
College system presents more difficult challenges than an election that
relies only on raw vote totals.
'Campaigning
for votes under the Electoral College system is much more difficult,
and different, than the popular vote,' he wrote on Twitter at first.
That
message disappeared almost immediately, and Trump replaced it 20
minutes later with a more aggressive tweet including a direct shot at
Clinton.
'Campaigning to
win the Electoral College is much more difficult & sophisticated
than the popular vote. Hillary focused on the wrong states!' he wrote in
the replacement tweet.
Trump
wrote in a followup message that 'I would have done even better in the
election, if that is possible, if the winner was based on popular vote -
but would campaign differently.'
Then
he added: 'I have not heard any of the pundits or commentators
discussing the fact that I spent FAR LESS MONEY on the win than Hillary
on the loss!'
SORE LOSERS: Former House Speaker Newt
Gingrich on Wednesday morning blasted liberals who insist Trump's
victory is illegitimate because more Americans voted for Clinton
BEFORE AND AFTER: Trump tweeted (top),
deleted and then replaced (bottom) a message about raw vote totals and
the Electoral College on Wednesday morning
Trump
ended Election Night controlling 306 votes in the Electoral College, a
number that slipped to 304 when presidential electors cast their ballots
on Monday. Clinton had 232, but lost five turncoats for a total of 227.
Clinton
would still have won California's 55 electoral votes if her margin
there had been far smaller. The same is true of New York's 29 electoral
votes.
Former House Speaker Newt
Gingrich on Wednesday morning blasted liberals who insist Trump's
victory is illegitimate because more Americans voted for Clinton.
'This
is football season. A team can have more yards and lose the game. What
matters is how many points you put on the board. The Electoral College
is the points,' he said on 'Fox & Friends.'
'Trump actually carried – in the 49
states outside of California, he had a 1.2 million vote majority. He got
killed in California because he never campaigned there,' Gingrich said.
'The
Democrats had two people running for the U.S. Senate the way California
law works, no Republican running for the U.S. Senate. So we got beaten
in the biggest state. It didn't matter. That's not how you pick the
presidency. Trump's now going to be president. She's not going to be
president. That's called winning the game.'
He
said some Democrats are 'not going to get used to the idea' of a
President Trump 'because he is, from their standpoint, horrifying. ...
They live in a delusional world. That's why they lost the election: They
decided to stay with the delusion.'
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