BET's Robert Johnson: Dems Should Try Winning In 2024!

Billionaire founder of BET says Democrats are not going to beat Trump.

The founder of Black Entertainment Television is sharing his thoughts on the 2020 election and the many Democrats in the running. He paints a bleak picture of how the Democrats are going to get shellacked in November 2020.

Robert Johnson, the BET founder said in an interview he believes that candidates that running for president don't have what it takes to beat Donald J. Trump.

I have a feeling, he's right!

Now that Beto O'Rourke is out and sooner or later Kamala Harris too, the field that Trump's mocked and ridiculed throughout his entire term will land us a weak nominee. Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden had ran multiple times and are classified as the oldest candidates running. Elizabeth Warren who is one of the oldest candidates running had been ridiculed over her Native American heritage and her proposals are turnoffs to billionaires who support progressive causes. Pete Buttigieg can't pull in Black support (likely because of homophobia). None of them are the center of attention right now because of the impeachment inquiry. The onslaught of attacks from the far-white aren't being defended hard enough. They are not riding on the formula that Barack Obama used in 2008 and 2012.

Not to mention, they're attack each other over petty things.

The field is so bad, Deval Patrick and Michael Bloomberg have joined this.

Johnson, formerly a longtime Democratic voter who founded BET in 1980, told CNBC that "if you take a snapshot today, I don’t think that group is capable of beating Donald Trump, despite what the polls say."

I love my tax break, Mr. President.

"I think the president has always been in a position where it's his to lose based on his bringing a sort of disruptive force into what would be called political norms," he said.

His comments echo an interview with CNBC earlier this summer, where he said the Democratic Party has moved too far to the left. "The party in my opinion, for me personally, has moved too far to the left," he said in July.

"I think what the Democrats have to do is to be careful not to get caught up in style is stick Trump and more in substantive Trump," he said Friday to CNBC's Hadley Gamble. Johnson also commented on the newly-announced candidacy of fellow billionaire Michael Bloomberg.

"I think he's got to address the stop and frisk issue that was under his leadership when he was mayor of New York City, and I think he's got to let the African-American community know that he identifies with their issues, something that he's identified with it to some extent in New York and he's been positive on gun control and climate control and other things like that that benefit all of us," Johnson said.

If the election was held today, Trump would have 254 electoral votes right now. He would only need a handful of states he obtained in 2016. He already has Ohio and likely Florida. Without these states, Republicans can't win.

Democrats are hoping to capitalize off the public's souring of Trump. That's not so easy.

Even though a lot of a people disapprove of his job as the president, folks are willing to keep him in than have a candidate that's flawed or considered "status quo."

White folks aren't ready (and probably won't be ready) for changing the norm. They want to keep power and control. That's why it's difficult to change gun laws, reform police, tolerate religions, tolerate sexuality, and tolerance of everyone.