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Van Jones says Democrats are discussing ‘how’ to replace Biden, ‘not whether’
The Hill ^ | 7/03/24 | Sarah Fortinsky

Posted on 07/04/2024 2:52:52 AM PDT by Libloather

Former Obama administration official Van Jones said Wednesday that Democrats, behind closed doors, are discussing “how” to replace President Biden at the top of the ticket, “not whether.”

The CNN commentator said the Democrats who defend Biden on TV have “completely different” conversations in private, amid growing concern in the party about Biden’s standing as the presumptive nominee.

“I understand people want to, you know, defend him and protect him and give him the space and the dignity to make his own choice,” Jones told CNN’s Jim Sciutto Wednesday, referring to Biden.

“But there is a big conversation happening right now about how this happens – not whether,” he added.

Jones painted a chaotic picture of the Democratic party as it tries to figure out a path forward in private discussions.

“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 suggested Democrats were proceeding under the assumption that Vice President Kamala Harris would be next in line for the top spot. Among the questions Democrats are trying to answer, Jones said, is, “Who should Kamala Harris’s vice president be?”

Jones praised Biden as “a great candidate” but said Democrats must be responsible in determining what the best path forward is.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; History
KEYWORDS: biden; democrats; election; impairedbiden; jones; replace; replacingjoe
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Hang in there Brandon. You'll probably need more advisors like Hunter. Don't give up.
1 posted on 07/04/2024 2:52:52 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Joe is not capable of deciding, as he is too demented. He can’t grasp what the various choices mean.


2 posted on 07/04/2024 3:01:04 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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drjill is demanding the Lincoln Memorial be demolished and the “Biden Memorial” be
erected in its place since her husband proved his debating skills far surpass Abe Lincoln.


3 posted on 07/04/2024 3:03:57 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name . )
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To: Libloather
Jones suggested Democrats were proceeding under the assumption that Vice President Kamala Harris would be next in line for the top spot. Among the questions Democrats are trying to answer, Jones said, is, “Who should Kamala Harris’s vice president be?”

They know Harris' numbers -- this doesn't add up.

4 posted on 07/04/2024 3:12:26 AM PDT by GOPJ (Biden can READ a speech IF written for him. Take the teleprompter away and Biden's a babbling idiot.)
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To: Libloather

Not that legality matters to these people, but that is obviously a violation of their own rules - Biden’s delegates are pledged to him, and unless he releases them, they are bound to cast votes for him at the convention.

These delegates were also elected by the votes of the people according to procedure...so they are going to “defend democracy” by having autocrats at the DNC invalidate their votes for these delegates...


5 posted on 07/04/2024 3:21:16 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: GOPJ
I don't know. They must salvage the D down ticket. There would be open rebellion among the rats if the DEI token were to be brushed aside, regardless of whatever backroom deals might make that happen. I'd be most concerned the power brokers are begrudgingly accepting a Trump win, and are "fortifying" the machine to derail his administration, or otherwise lock him into protruded legal battles, hampering his ability to change the nation's course. They're basically considering a throw-away ticket with some hope for the W. And of course a loss here could be damaging to future political aspirations, which is why I argue Gruesome et al aren't going to ascend this cycle. Anything is possible, but this seems most plausible from my limited vantage point.

I have heard other interesting theories, e.g. holding onto Biden until the last possible moment to thwart an RFK Jr take over of the party. If that were true, they'd have a plan (I assume), or perhaps they really don't and are just that terrified of an RFK Jr "infection" of Rat politics.

6 posted on 07/04/2024 3:30:02 AM PDT by John Robinson (🍺)
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To: Libloather

Joe is waiting on a $100 million dollar severance package that Hunter is negotiating.


7 posted on 07/04/2024 3:32:28 AM PDT by MMusson ( )
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. “People are passing around legal memos, PDFs are flying back and forth on WhatsApp, trying to figure out, what are the options?

The Russians and Chinese must be reading these things and laughing their asses off.


8 posted on 07/04/2024 3:43:21 AM PDT by TalBlack (I We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: Libloather

Who had “dem civil war” as their guess for July?

CC


9 posted on 07/04/2024 3:47:29 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: Libloather

I like it....how about you democRATs go off to Chicago and have a civil war with each other.


10 posted on 07/04/2024 4:16:18 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: Libloather

What the Democrats are trying to figure out is how to circumvent the constitution without SCOTUS shooting it down at the last minute. This is all a timing issue. Solution is very simple. Biden resigns, Harris becomes President going into the convention. There her VP can be announced, which should be Whitmer.

The Dems need to go to war with an all biologically female (She/Her) ticket. Win the election and then figure out what to do to have the Republicans impeach and remove Harris from office. It becomes a twofer. Dems set it up, Repubs fall into the trap, Whitmer becomes President, Harris is gone and Dems have a 2026 platform to run on.


11 posted on 07/04/2024 4:22:59 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Paging Dr. Bandy Lee. Dr. Lee please pick up the white courtesy phone.)
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To: Libloather

I assure you that no one with decision making powers speaks within hundreds of yards of Van Jones. When he says Democrats, he means the people in line at the welfare office or on “The View.”


12 posted on 07/04/2024 4:29:41 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: GOPJ

IN my view, if they could prop ole joe up like they have for 4 years, why can’t they prop up kamala? Seems like an easier job...........


13 posted on 07/04/2024 4:43:19 AM PDT by cb
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IN my view, if they could prop ole joe up like they have for 4 years, why can’t they prop up kamala? Seems like an easier job...........

Well, it seems to me that it would be more difficult to control Kamala. FJB can be manipulated and guided because he's basically a vegetable. He doesn't know what's going on at any given point in time and so can be manipulated to do what the Deep State wants.

Kamala, on the other hand, doesn't know what she doesn't know and, as a result, firmly believes that she has a complete grasp on all of the problems facing the country. She's going to insist on not being manipulated because it would destroy her (mistaken) self-image of a strong, intelligent woman.

To a large extent, I view her as the Fredo of the Biden Crime Family. "It ain't the way I wanted it! I can handle things! I'm smart! And I deserve respect!"

14 posted on 07/04/2024 4:54:10 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Think of it as evolution in action. [Oath of Fealty - Pournelle and Niven])
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To: BlueLancer

For most Americans the answer lies in buying more popcorn. Observing these integrity-free, dishonest criminals squirming like maggots on rotting meat is at some pathetic level “entertaining “.


15 posted on 07/04/2024 5:40:03 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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To: Libloather

Ditto!

EC


16 posted on 07/04/2024 5:49:20 AM PDT by Ex-Con777
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To: hal ogen
For most Americans the answer lies in buying more popcorn.

Well, I hadn't thought of that being the reason that my local Walmart was all out of yellow popping corn on the shelves ...

17 posted on 07/04/2024 5:50:49 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Think of it as evolution in action. [Oath of Fealty - Pournelle and Niven])
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To: MMusson

“Joe is waiting on a $100 million dollar severance package that Hunter is negotiating.”

Many a truth has been told in jest.


18 posted on 07/04/2024 6:03:38 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: Libloather

Well, Marcy Park has already been done so that won’t work.


19 posted on 07/04/2024 6:07:23 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (President Trump is a businessman first and a politician second. That's why he's good for America.)
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To: Libloather

The Democrats are tearing themselves apart and it is enjoyable to watch. In a party with communist like discipline, it always amazed me how its members will sit in silence as its masters do horrendous things to this country, for years. Case in point is allowing 18 million illegals who are unhealthy, unvetted, unskilled, uneducated, and unvaxxed to storm the land and become wards of the state, as either convicts or welfare recipients while enriching the Cartels to monstrous levels. None speak to it as the crime that it is, as Joe Biden did not defend it at the debate, they won’t even address it, while the rest of nation is appalled and demands action. It is a remarkable iron bound discipline, yet easy if one values power over the well being of the nation.

Now their world is unhinged, the pravda-like media is in full revolt of their leader (after years of deceptive gaslighting) and their party has put themselves in impossible positions. Much of their problem stems from back room deep state machinations of selecting leaders, and their dead set hypocritical orthodoxy from not allowing the actual people to decide. If they let the people vote on their candidates they would not have this brewing civil war.
Yet it is obvious that they manipulate around that because they know most of their candidates are leftist psychos who would not get two feet in an election, so they must scheme. Frankly Joe should have run in 2016, and likely would have done better than Hillary but Obama told him to sit it out. Then Hillary slept through the campaign and Trump pulled it out, getting an incredible 3 judges on the Supreme Court. That action saved a lot that was good for America. Biden could have been finishing up two terms right now and they would have had 4 Katangi Brown Jackson’s on the Supreme Court and America would be on life support heading for certain death. God works in mysterious ways.

So they have broken ranks and there is a live brawl in the monkey house. It is their own doing, from identity politics to dividing the nation by race, to a gaslighting subservient media, to a Kangaroo justice system hunting political opponents on bogus crimes. They have deformed America into a world of Stalin, Orwell and Kafka and the truth is finally be wrestled into the open. Let the people decide.


20 posted on 07/04/2024 6:09:39 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus (The trouble with socialism is that you soon run out of other people's zoo animals to eat.)
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