All blue everything ! <| sep |> Trump won an electoral college election by campaigning in a manner to win an electoral college election , because that is how we pick our presidents . To say he lost the popular vote and claim the election is in some way invalid or compromised is a fallacy . If we picked our presidents via the popular vote method , Trump would have campaigned heavily , even exclusively , in high population states like California , New York and Illinois . And as a result , you probably would have seen a huge swing for him in those states . Since we use the electoral college system , it would have been stupid for him to waste any time and money in those states , as they are rock solid Democrat . Many people , and there is no way to determine how many , would have come out and voted for Trump in those states but stayed home or voted third party because their votes were essentially worthless . Being a conservative in a a west coast state , my vote has been worthless since 1988 . The only way to prove that Clinton would have won in a popular vote election would be to start the whole stinking mess over again from the beginning as a popular vote election and see who wins . I think it would still be Trump , but there is no way I want to go through this stuff all over again .