Do I look like a socialist? Look at my career, my whole career. I am not a socialist."

Joe Biden didn't begin his candidacy wanting to be a transformational president.

Americans aren't looking for a revolution. They're looking for,

tell me how you're going to help me with my health care. Tell you to make me safer.

Before coronavirus existed, he situated himself on the right of the primary field.

He embraced centrism as both a governing doctrine and a political strategy.

He contemplated cutting deals with Republicans,

wistfully recalling his early days in elected office when the Senate was a clubier place.

He even told donors not to worry. His plans wouldn't ask too much of them.

Biden spoke at a private fundraiser earlier this week and told the big donors that

he didn't want to demonize the wealthy and added that under his presidency

no one's standard of living will change. Nothing will fundamentally change.

Something fundamentally did change, though.

As the U.S. faces record daily coronavirus deaths,

the CDC predicts over 80,000 more people could die from the virus by the end of January.

Now learn more than 33 million Americans have lost their jobs in seven weeks.

The unemployment rate soaring to nearly 15 percent,

the highest since the Great Depression.

After coronavirus spread unchecked through the country and the economy collapsed,

the noises out of the Biden campaign took on a decidedly different tone.

By May of last year, his advisors cast aside their don't rock the boat mantra in favor of a new one.

The Biden would plan an FDR-sized presidency.

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