Biden sets defining course for Democratic Party: The Note

President Joe Biden may be an unlikely figure to usher in a sweeping progressive era for the Democratic Party, but it's happening.

The TAKE with Rick Klein His agenda is as wide and deep as his congressional margins are narrow. His plans have gotten bolder as the opposition to those proposals has settled in. This is what it looks like to have a party own an identity. President Joe Biden may be an unlikely figure to usher in a sweeping progressive era for the Democratic Party, but it's happening -- whether or not his bills become laws. Biden on Thursday called his proposal "the biggest jobs plan in this country since World War II" -- another reference to the FDR era from a president thinking in historical terms.