We are continuing to learn new information about how President-elect Trump built a new coalition

to send him back to the White House that he lost four years ago. Here to help us understand the

dynamics behind Trump's comeback is Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter. Amy,

it's great to have you back here at the desk. It's like we never left. So we are learning

more about what motivated voters

last night, and it's clear that the economy was by far the top issue, and voters broke strongly

in Trump's favor as a result. 40% of voters say it was their biggest concern, and of those who did,

60% voted for the former president, while 38% backed Vice President Kamala Harris.

What more can you tell us about how Trump managed to make this his issue?

Yeah, it is the issue that we always knew was in the minds of voters.

Anytime you talk to voter about the election, the first thing they would bring up is the cost of stuff.

Now, the Harris campaign was hopeful that because inflation was going down,

because economic optimism was ticking up a bit,

that maybe it would lessen some of this frustration about the state of the economy.

It really didn't work out in that direction. And so she, as the incumbent

party, is punished by voters who say we really didn't, we didn't really like this inflation.

And what we also remember is when Donald Trump was in office, I had more money in my pocket.

And that was the other thing that was notable about some of these AP vote cast surveys

is what we saw in other data coming into the election.

The retrospective opinion about Donald's Trump presidency was much more positive than it was, even when he was

president. And I think that is largely because of the economy. There's some interesting demographic

breakdowns, too. Black voters broke for Kamala Harris, 83 to 16%. Harris also won the Latino vote,

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