Final tally shows Trump lost popular vote by 2.8 million – but he BEAT Clinton by 3 million votes outside of California and New York
By David Martosko, Us Political Editor For Dailymail.com
PUBLISHED: 09:01 EST, 21 December 2016 | UPDATED: 10:41 EST, 21 December 2016
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz4TUZzCU00
Clinton won
California by 4.2 million votes and
New York by 1.6 million, running up the score
in places where she would have won no matter what
Outside of those two liberal states, Trump was 3 million votes ahead
California alone accounted for
more than Clinton's
national popular-vote edge
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....