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Donald Trump explains why he didn't win more bigly

Donald Trump at the Georgia World Congress Center on Feb. 21, 2016. AJC photo: HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM

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Donald Trump at the Georgia World Congress Center on Feb. 21, 2016. AJC photo: HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM
By Jennifer Brett
Nov 15, 2016

Or is that big-league? Either way, the president-elect is still campaigning, it appears.

While Republican Donald Trump claimed victory in the Electoral College, Democrat Hillary Clinton claimed a popular-vote triumph. The imbalance has prompted calls for the country to abandon the Electoral College system. Cox Radio correspondent Jamie Dupree has an explainer on the system (and why the country likely won't be moving away from it) here.

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Trump, who said in Sunday's "60 Minutes" interview that he would become more restrained in his use of Twitter, weighed in:

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