In short:  will the US electoral college ''steal'' the elections for Trump?

They vote to influence who gets into the electoral college.

NO..............

I agree with you, Robert. I believe you should stay home and not vote, and just let the Electoral College decide who will be our president. 

That's quite a twist, Rob. They have to, by law, vote the way their state did. Got it?

Each US State gets the same number of "electors" as their Representative and Senators in congress.  (the electors are not the elected congresspeople. 

The people in the popular vote for President, only vote for the slate of electors for their party or candidate. 

The candidate with the most votes in that state get those electors.

The Electoral college then vote for the party candidate that had the most votes in their state.  

So like Trump, He lost the "popular vote" but won the Electoral College because he had more states that voted for him and their population/congress people were such that he won the Electoral college.  Trump lost the popular vote but because he won in Pennsylvania and Minnesota by a slim majority he became President.   

You go into a football game knowing you need to score touchdowns.  You go into a presidential election knowing you need to win the Electoral College.  If you can't win the Electoral College, I guess you stay home and hide in the basement.  

In the end?  FWIW, they have always elected the President.

Ours is a popularity vote, mostly symbolic.