Newly elected House members won't take their seats until January, but they're on Capitol Hill this week for orientation, a congressional crash course of sorts.

Republican Congressman-elect Rob Bresnahan is among them.

He flipped his district representing the northeast corner of Pennsylvania from blue to red, and he joins us now from Capitol Hill.

Congratulations on your win and welcome to the News Hour.

Thank you for having me. Appreciate the congratulations here.

So you successfully defeated a six-time Democratic incumbent.

How did you do it? What was different about your approach?

Listen, we ran on kitchen table issues. We ran off an economy that works,

borders that are secure, and communities that are safe. We talked about the significance of making life affordable again for the people of Northeastern Pennsylvania.

You know, I don't know if there was a magic sauce, but I don't think we over-complicated it.

We knocked on over 50,000 doors.

We drove over 50,000 miles, and we talked to

real people. We talked to our veterans. We talked to our senior citizens who are deciding between

buying prescription medication, paying for heating their homes. We talked to, I mean, we talked

the real language to real people on the streets. And people were frustrated.

They were concerned and they were scared about their future.

To what extent do you attribute having Donald Trump atop the Republican ticket?

He won Pennsylvania, obviously, but won it with the most votes any GOP presidential candidate

has ever received in Pennsylvania.

Donald Trump also won my district in 2016.

He won it in 2020 and obviously he won it again in 2024.

However, we were the first candidate to be able to tail Donald Trump and put up enough of a

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