Both the President and the Senate are representatives of and voted on by the States, not the people. The only representative of the people in the US Federal government is aptly named House of Representatives.
When people vote for President, it is only to inform the State of how they want the State to vote, and the State has significant freedom to allocate its votes for President how it wishes e.g. some States use a proportional allocation instead of winner-takes-all.
Popular vote for Federal office was largely a 20th century invention.
And? That doesn't change the fact that he was not "overwhelmingly" elected. He won by a slim margin. People acting like he has a massive mandate from the people are at best ignoring the facts, and are mostly trying to delegitimize the opposition.
My point is that the popular vote is misdirection no matter who uses it, people weren't voting to get the most votes nationally and strategy reflects that. It focuses people on a thing that doesn't matter to push a narrative.
The only votes that matter are the votes of the State. It may still not be "overwhelming" at 58% (312 out of 538) but pretending that wasn't the result only serves to muddy the water.
I think you’re making an academic rather than practical point. Sure, he won a much larger share of the electoral college than the popular vote and the existence of the electoral college likely influences some voting patterns. Even then though, in PA he won with barely 1.5% more of the vote yet got all 19 electoral votes. Given the how close the election was forecast and how important PA was, I don’t think the electoral college drove much of the voting patterns. So my point still stands: he barely has a mandate and most certainly did not win an overwhelming victory. And yet, he gets to implement a radically destructive gutting of the federal government.
When people vote for President, it is only to inform the State of how they want the State to vote, and the State has significant freedom to allocate its votes for President how it wishes e.g. some States use a proportional allocation instead of winner-takes-all.
Popular vote for Federal office was largely a 20th century invention.