Just because Trump lost popular vote during last elections does not mean that the result would be the same if there was no electoral college. The way elections

Just because Trump lost popular vote during last elections does not mean that the result would be the same if there was no electoral college. The way elections currently work is discouraging many voters from participating: if you are a Democrat in red state, or Republican in blue state you might feel that your vote does not matter and not go to vote at all. If there were different rules voters would also behave differently. So we won't ever know who would win such elections until we actually have them.