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He arrived at the Central Iowa Expo grounds in the bulletproof limo you'd expect...but Vice President Mike Pence rolled into Senator Joni Ernst's "Roast and Ride" on a motorcycle.
Flanked in front and back by Secret Service agents, the vice president rode up to the speaker's platform at the event with Sen. Joni Ernst at his side.
Pence arrived late in Des Moines, and didn't get to participate in the "Ride" part of Ernst's event. So Senator Ernst gave the Vice President the chance to roll one from his limo to the front of the crowd.
Over 500 people paid $20 each to join the three-mile-long procession from a Harley Davidson dealer in the Des Moines metro to the Expo grounds outside Boone. Proceeds from the event go to "Hope For The Warriors", a national non-profit which Ernst says helps post 9/11 military and their families.
Pence thanked the crowd for their votes in November on behalf of President Trump. He also pointed to the President's decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement, which Pence says showed President Trump "put America first."
The Vice President pointed to an "independent study" which showed that the Paris accord would have cost the US "six and a half million jobs while giving countries like China and India virtually a free pass."
The annual fundraiser for Ernst's re-election campaign was put together as her version of the "Steak Fry" fundraisers that her predecessor, Democrat Tom Harkin, held in Indianola every summer.