I still don't understand the voting process of the USA. apparently what presidents need in order to get elected are the electoral votes. and from what I know, the popular vote, given by the general public, plays no part in the electoral votes.
Too many people fail to understand that the USA is NOT a democracy. It is a democratic republic. We democratically elect our representatives. Then they get to cast that unweighted vote. The Founding Fathers decided that a pure democracy could never work because it put too much power in the hands of city-dwellers. But to fully represent the country's interests, they needed the country-dwellers to have a way to balance the greedy, almost voracious nature of cities where impoverished people congregate. Because of course, impoverished people live in the country as well and what the urban folks get, the rural folks cannot have.
Therefore, the popular vote rules supreme in each electoral district. The winner of the popular vote in those districts gets an electoral vote. Period. But the catch is that you need 50% of the electoral votes plus one vote to be elected as President. This means that you have to have wider appeal than purely just city voters.
Yes, Hillary might indeed have carried many cities. But then, she was portraying herself as the queen of socialism via Medicare and expansions of the Affordable Care Act. And a lot of folks saw through the one-sided viewpoint she offered.