Yes, but in America, it's not the popular vote that wins. It's the number of areas that win. For instance, California might have 1 million people and 5 representatives while Ohio might have 2000 people and 6 representatives.

It was set up this way a long time ago so that areas which had a lot of people did not have power over those areas where there were very few people.

The electoral college went with the implemented system. If they hadn't, they would have chucked Trump out.