Van Jones says Democrats now planning on 'how' to replace Biden with Harris

Former Obama presidential adviser Van Jones says Democrats have moved on from discussions about potentially replacing President Biden at the top of the party’s 2024 ticket – to now actively plotting on how they can get him to step aside.

Jones says the party is now in "full-scale panic" behind the scenes as President Biden faces mounting pressure to abandon his re-election bid following his highly criticized debate performance against former President Trump last week.

"I understand people want to defend him and protect him and give him the space and the dignity to make his own choice," Jones said on CNN Wednesday, referring to Biden.

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"But there is a big conversation happening right now about how this happens – not whether."

Jones claimed the circumstances are akin to former President Trump where his surrogates would vouch for him in public, but behind the scenes it would be different.

"I just got to be honest, everybody comes on the air and says all this great stuff but behind the scenes, it’s full-scale panic," Jones said. "People are passing around legal memos, PDFs are flying back and forth on WhatsApp, trying to figure out, what are the options? How can you replace Biden? How do you get him to do it in a way where he feels respected, as he should be respected?"

Jones inferred that the party’s nominee would be Vice President Harris, with conversations now moving to who would be her running mate.

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"Who should Kamala Harris’s vice president be? The conversations on air and the conversations off-air are completely different," Jones said about the Biden situation. "We have a