david, laura, have a wonderful day. thanks, mike. mike: millions under winter weather alerts as large storm rages in the east coast bringing ice and freezing rain. the latest forecast coming up. to ert liberty, liberty only pay for what you need. liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty making your way in the world today takes everything you ve got taking a break from all your worries sure would help a lot wouldn t you like to get away?
david davela, welcome to both of you. hello. mike: glenn youngkin delivers on some of his promises, laura, how do you assess actions? i give him an a for symbolism and tbd on what he will actually do. they may make some of his base that elected him happy but things like the mask mandate have gotten mixed reviews for governors like ron desantis as he defunded schools for those districts who chose to impose mask mandate that. can have impact for voters in the long term. he started out with red meat for his base. mike: what message does this send to the governor s race? two things, mike, he s ready to take action on those things that he campaigned onto get elected, whether it d be allowing parents to have more say in their children s education, whether it d be taking care of that parole board
so i think this is something that s going to be corrected with time. i think that joe biden ran as a slow and steady hand in the face of crisis. i think we are at a challenging point in that crisis with omicron variant spreading, with some of the other challenges of the pandemic but i think you re going to see that turn around in the months to come. never forget that unemployment rate is low. the stock market is doing well. americans are doing well. i think there are some improvements that need to be made. the wholesale firing of staff isn t certainly one of them. mike: there was also inflation hitting them in the wallet at the grocery store and at the gas station, david, how do you assess the approval drop for the president? very coalition that got the president elected has cradled on him whether that be independent voters which view them unfavorably and whether it d be suburban moms that he is under water with, the very coalition he used to get elected have now seen his policies an
inflation and we saw by the time that he was reelected with a resounding number of americans voting for him that economy was in hand, so to this i would say to any republican with their pom-poms cheering on inflation and there is time and biden s monetary policy may serve him well as we look at the long-term just since reagan monetary s policy did in 81. be careful who you count out. mike: a couple of ronald reagan references, how do you respond, david? this is far closer to 1978 as president carter went into the midterm elections and it was after that that you had ted kennedy who decided it was time for him to take a challenge in the primary in the 1980 primary to jimmy carter and so if you re looking at historical analogy, we are far closer to 1978 than we were to 1981. all right, little history lesson in here today.