Donald Trump just lashed out on Twitter over criticisms that he lost the popular vote

It's been nearly a full week since Donald Trump was officially declared America's president-elect. But he wants America to know he could have "won even bigger and more easily."
In a tweet Tuesday morning, Trump argued that he would've paid more attention to reliably blue states like New York, Florida, and California if the election weren't based on the Electoral College. Trump won the Electoral College 290-232, with Michigan's 16 electoral votes still in play, but lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by roughly 800,000 votes and counting. Clinton's popular vote victory has prompted millions of her supporters to demand that she be awarded the presidency, despite America's longstanding Electoral College rules.
While Trump repeatedly railed on America's "rigged" electoral system ahead of Election Day, he indicated Tuesday that he's since rethought things. As it turns out, the Electoral College system he once called "a disaster for a democracy" is what he has to thank for his White House win. Becca Stanek
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