Hillary getting more votes doesn't mean she gets to be president. I don't know why people ignore the fact that the US Presidential election is a FPTP-type of election. Electoral college votes matter/determines the result, not the popular vote. I get people don't like Trump. But throughout modern US presidential elections, a candidate generally needs to carry at least 25 states. Hillary could not meet that threshold. It's great that she got millions of more votes than Trump in California or NY State. Her problem wasn't her popularity in large blue states - it's that she needed half a million more votes in a bunch of states that, for whatever reason, she believed didn't matter. I don't think the 2016 election surprise (at least for me, an outsider looking in) was that Trump won, it was (apparently) how unpopular Hillary is/was in certain parts of the country. Even Obama's 2nd term election, when he was a tad less popular still carried 26 states, Hillary didn't even carry 22. Bill Clinton carried 30 or more states in each of his two presidential elections. I don't really care whether you want Biden or Trump to win. But if you want Dems to win, you better hope he carries at least 25 states. It doesn't even, generally, matter what the other 23 states are, as Dems can pencil-in California and NY as blue (and their 80 some-odd combined electoral votes). For Dems the tragedy of 2016 was Trump - the true tragedy is that the Dems couldn't muster 23 other states, what with their darn near automatic 80 odd electoral college head start that is California and NY.