Clinton won California by 4.2 million votes and New York by 1.6 million, running up the score in places where she would have won no matter what

Outside of those two liberal states, Trump was 3 million votes ahead

California alone accounted for more than Clinton's national popular-vote edge

Newt Gingrich mocked: 'This is football season. A team can have more yards and lose the game. What matters is how many points you put on the board' 

Final vote tallies from the November 8 election show that Democrat Hillary Clinton out-polled President-elect Donald Trump by 2.8 million votes while losing the contest by a wide margin in the all-important Electoral College.