Donald Trump Says He Could Have 'Won Even Bigger and More Easily' If It Was Necessary

Donald Trump, faced with growing criticism that he lost the popular vote, took to Twitter Tuesday morning to say that if he needed to, he would have “won even bigger and more easily,” by adjusting his campaign strategy to appeal to more populous states.

Although Trump won overwhelmingly in the electoral college – currently 290 to Democratic rival Hillary Clinton's 232 with Michigan still not fully counted — he lost the popular vote by nearly 700,000 votes largely because Clinton took large, populous states like New York, California and Illinois.

“If the election were based on total popular vote I would have campaigned in N.Y. Florida and California and won even bigger and more easily,” Trump posted on Twitter.

A few minutes later, Trump added: “The Electoral College is actually genius in that it brings all states, including the smaller ones, into play. Campaigning is much different!”

It's a far cry from where Trump stood four years ago when Mitt Romney lost to President Obama, calling the Electoral College a "disaster for democracy."

But who knows where Trump actually stands on the Electoral College?

In an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes" that aired on Sunday, Trump said he hasn't changed his mind since 2012 and prefers counting "simple votes."

“I’m not going to change my mind just because I won,” Trump said. “But I would rather see it where you went with simple votes. You know, you get 100 million votes and somebody else gets 90 million votes and you win.”

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