There was serious confusion among my extended family after Election Day in 2016. Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton clearly gained more individual votes than Republican nominee Donald Trump — nearly 3 million more. But Trump clearly, and with room to spare, won the only vote total that mattered: the Electoral College.
“I thought the person who the most people voted for was president,” one family member who voted for Trump told me.
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