GEOFF BENNETT: And for a deeper dive into the data and why people voted the way they did, Amy Walter of The Cook Political Report With Amy Walter is back with us.

Hello, Amy Walter.

AMY WALTER, The Cook Political Report: Hello, Geoff Bennett.

I feel like I never left.

GEOFF BENNETT: That's right.

(CROSSTALK) AMY WALTER: ... I didn't.

GEOFF BENNETT: Yes, we just stayed here under the desk.

GEOFF BENNETT: So, look, President Trump urged voters to treat his -- this election as a referendum on him, and in many ways that's what they did.

GEOFF BENNETT: The economy was a top issue for voters, as we know, with gas prices soaring amid the war in Iran.

How much did voters hold the president and his party, the Republican Party, personally responsible for the economic pain they're feeling?

AMY WALTER: Yes, I mean, that's the real takeaway from this election.

It's not just that people thought that the economy was their most salient issue.

It's that they believed that it was Trump's policies that had caused the higher prices.

In The Voter Poll, the exit poll, 63 percent of Americans who voted said Trump's policies are the cause of higher prices.

Only 37 percent said it was for some other reason.

And here's really -- the next piece of this is the priority piece.

It's not just that they were frustrated about the war and its impact on gas prices and on inflation.

The president has mentioned that today, as you noted, the vice president saying it's really the Iran war that's the big problem.

But what voters also felt was a real sense that the president was focused much more on his priorities than he was focused on their priorities.

Just 36 percent of voters said they believed that Trump has the right priorities; 64 percent said no.

And when asked, well, what does he actually prioritize, 62 percent again said his priorities.

Just 38 percent said the country's interests.

And this, I think, was really typified, Geoff, by the fact that he ended his campaign -- we talked about this a lot going into the election -- ended it at the Reflecting Pool talking about the work he was going to do there, and then the day after the campaign, he's standing in the still-not-completed ballroom.

Voters looked at that and said, I just don't understand how he could be more focused on this than on bringing down my costs.

And I think the issue of betrayal overall -- it's not -- again, I don't think it's just that people are upset that their prices went up.

It's that they believed that, when he came to Washington for a second time, he was not only going to fix the economy, but he was going to focus on them, and he was not, certainly not going to get the U.S.

involved in overseas conflict.

AMNA NAWAZ: Amy, let me ask you something about the redistricting push.

I know we have talked a lot about the president pushed for that in a number of states over the last two years.

All of that was based on the idea that Republicans could recreate the coalition that pushed him back into the White House in 2024.

AMNA NAWAZ: It didn't work.

Where did they fall short?

AMY WALTER: Yes, with almost every single piece of that coalition that Trump put together in 2024, Latinos a big piece of this, in 2024, Harris only won Latino voters by about 12 points.

But Democrats this election won them by 30.

Texas is a great example of the swing that we saw there.

And then younger voters.

Remember, we talked so much about especially younger men, younger men of color; 18-to-29-year-olds only supported Harris by three points in 2024.

They gave Democrats 73 percent of the vote in this election.

So the real sense, again, of the betrayal of the core promises of a Trump presidency really led to much of this backsliding with this coalition.

GEOFF BENNETT: Amy Walter, thanks so much for your sharp insights this entire election season.

AMY WALTER: Thank you.

Appreciate that.

GEOFF BENNETT: We deeply appreciate it.

AMY WALTER: You're welcome.