alexandria hoff following it all and joins me here onset. alex. alex: senator jody ernst started and there s about 2,000 iowans and one thousand that come from the charity fundraisers and cattle calls some put it for gop hopefuls that want to connect and carve out their brand. i scare the dickens out of the radical left and joe biden. leadership is not about virtue, signaling or building a brand, leadership is ultimately about results. we have a battle to fight in 2024. let me fight that good fight for you. alex: well former vice president mike pence took a ride himself. who knew? gearing up for presidential announcement which will come on wednesday in iowa according to ap, same day as multiple results have north dakota governor doug bergum entering the race. former new hampshire governor chris christie will announce run on tuesday. here is pence talking about the week ahead. i have every confidence that voters in iowa and around the country will take time to think ha
you know, really take pride in the fact that this is an important opportunity as a voter, what the future would look like. elections matter. mike: from quinnipiac do you think joe biden is too old to effectively serve another four-year term as president or not? 65% say yes too old, 32% no. jonathan, that has to trouble the president s team and democrats. sure, i think you don t want to see the poll numbers but if he s too old the last 3 years of his accomplishments i would love to be that old. he has gotten so much done just legislatively it s hard to argue that he s not up for the job. he s he s getting everything done that democrats have wanted and he s cutting bipartisan deals something he said he would do on the campaign. something that all of us said no chance, can t do it. bipartisanship is dead in washington. he just signed another bipartisan deal. so if that s what too old is, i
half of one-third of government. i know there are people out there who say the deal wasn t perfect, well, welcome to real life. there is no perfect deal. at some point that s what a negotiation is, it s a little bit of give and take but given the kind of relatively limited leverage republicans had i think it was a huge conservative victory. the largest ever spending cut in american history, the largest ever claw-back of funds from an executive agency and unlocking of american energy and the biggest changes to welfare since 1996. we didn t get everything but we got a lot. mike: should this agreement basically reassure the american people that divided government can work at times? well, divided government is a mess. there are a lot of knuckle heads in washington, d.c. i don t want to whisper sweet to americans that everything is fine. we still have a lot of work to go but at some point, listen, i