Joseph, please quote anyone — anyone — who agrees with your definition of winning the popular vote. In almost all U.S. elections (other than the presidential election, in which the popular vote doesn’t determine the winner), the candidate who gets a plurality wins.
FWIW, here’s what Wikipedia has to say: “Losing the popular vote means securing less of the national popular vote than the person who received either a majority or a plurality of the vote.”
RY23, it could be a new batch of makeup. When painting a room, they always recommend getting all your paint from the same lot. Or it could be he’s tired of being compared to a Cheeto or a tangerine.