Democrats are privately in agreement that President Joe Biden should be replaced after his poor performance during last week’s presidential debate, according to former Obama administration official Van Jones.

Jones, a CNN political commentator, said on the network that Democrats are privately discussing how, not whether, to replace Biden as the Democratic Party’s nominee for president. 

“Behind the scenes, it’s full-scale panic. People are passing around legal memos, PDFs are flying back and forth on WhatsApp, trying to figure out what are the options?” Jones said on Wednesday. “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? Who should Kamala Harris’ vice president be? The conversation on air and the conversation off air are completely different.”

“We have someone who loves this country. We have someone who has given his all – I mean, his all, to the last drop – for this country, but he may not be able to get across the finish line,” Jones said of the president. “A mature party has to take that into account, and that is what’s happening. 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. But there is a big conversation happening right now about how this happens – not whether.”

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Biden is facing growing calls to step aside as the Democratic Party’s nominee for president. Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas became the first Democrat in Congress to publicly call for Biden to drop out of the race on Tuesday, followed shortly after by Arizona Rep. Raúl Grijalva, the top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee.

“What he needs to do is shoulder the responsibility for keeping that seat — and part of that responsibility is to get out of this race,” Grijalva told The New York Times.

Biden has repeatedly insisted that he is staying in the race. In an interview with a Milwaukee radio show on Wednesday, the president brushed off his feeble performance in last week’s presidential debate.

“I had a bad night,” Biden said. “And the fact of the matter is that I screwed up. I made a mistake. That’s 90 minutes onstage – look at what I’ve done in three and a half years.”

The highly anticipated movie “Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot” hits theaters today, a release that comes from a partnership between Angel Studios and DailyWire+.

The film is based on the inspiring true story of Donna and Reverend Martin, who, along with 22 families from their rural black church in the small East Texas town of Possum Trot, adopt 77 of the most difficult to place kids in the foster system. “Sound of Hope” sits at an impressive 86% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes as of Thursday morning.

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“We are thrilled to partner with Angel Studios, a company that not only shares our commitment to creating impactful and meaningful entertainment but also excels in doing so,” Jeremy Boreing, co-founder and co-CEO of The Daily Wire, said when announcing the partnership. “Speaking as the father of an adopted daughter myself, ‘Sound of Hope’ is truly inspirational. We know it will resonate deeply with our audience – and far beyond – and has the power to make a true cultural impact for kids and families in crisis. We want millions to see this film.”

In the movie, the Possum Trot community proves that with real, determined love, the battle of America’s most vulnerable can be won. The film has been screened to hundreds of non-profit organizations focused on foster care and adoption, and critics, families, and those formerly in the foster care system are praising the film for its honest portrayal of the story.

Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro interviewed “Sound of Hope” director Josh Weigel on “The Ben Shapiro Show” on Wednesday and asked him what he views as “the biggest issues that Americans need to know about and that you tried to get across in the film” regarding the foster crisis.

“One of the things is just that it’s there,” Weigel said. “We all know that the foster system is there, and we’re so used to just giving over that work to the government and other people that we don’t personalize it. And what’s so shocking is that children are suffering every day in this system, floating around, being sent from house to house.”

Bishop W.C. Martin, who inspired his Texas congregation to adopt dozens of foster children, also sat down with Shapiro for a “Sunday Special” episode that was released earlier this week. Martin told Shapiro that his and his wife’s decision to foster children “was difficult, very difficult.”

“I had to almost be a policeman in my own household,” he said.

“But you know sometimes I think we’ve got to look beyond ourselves, look beyond where we are and to reach out into this world,” Martin added. “More or less like what Jesus did for us, the suffering that he went through for us that we may have a better life and a greater life.”

“Sound of Hope” is playing in theaters across the country beginning on Thursday, July 4. Get showtimes here.