As the Democrats' gear up for the 2020 election campaign, with the first televised primary debates kicking off this week,... the core message of some 20 contenders has been: out with President Trump.<br />But will this be a strong enough agenda to win over voters?<br />Our Oh Soo-young reports,... with partial footage from NBC News.<br /><br />"Beat Trump. Beat Trump. Beat Trump."<br /><br />"We are united in defeating Donald Trump."<br /><br />"I will be the guy that beats Donald Trump."<br /><br />"Donald Trump has alienated our allies, stripped our medical care..."<br /><br />"And it's just not working anymore. 2020 is a chance to change that."<br /><br />As the Democratic Party's first primary debates kick off,... many of the candidates have taken a stand against the incumbent Republican President Donald Trump.<br />But will the anti-Trump agenda be enough to sway the voters?<br /><br />"The mantra of their campaign is anti-Trump. And that's not substantive policy that Americans want to hear. Probably one of the biggest weakness of Democrats right now is that they don't have a focused agenda on what American people think is important." <br /><br />Key Democrat contenders have so far highlighted issues such as climate change, and the expansion of social welfare issues that have been neglected by the Republicans.<br /><br />"All the Democrats, want to talk about climate change and put it back on the agenda. The whole issue of healthcare was very popular in 2018; it helped the Democrats take the House of Representatives and I think it's going to be very popular for and helpful to the Democrats in 2020."<br /><br />However, it's clear the candidate has to be more than the run-of-the-mill, textbook Democrat to win over voters in swing states.<br /><br />"We cannot win just the Democratic based voters, we need those swing voters in districts such as mine that where a lot of people had been laid off. And they may not like President Trump, personally, or like his behavior, but they also are not necessarily seeing anything with the Democrats."<br /><br />Observers say the candidates need to focus on the economy,... and set out how they can top the low unemployment figures and optimism seen during Trump's term.<br /><br />"I think the difficulty here is if the economy is still going very well in the U.S., Trump has a great advantage on that regard, so the Democrats will have to package their message in a way that deflects attention away from President Trump."<br /><br />"Even though employment is very low, salaries haven't quite kicked up and so people are very interested in having wages go up."<br /><br />While recent polls indicate Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren as the leading Democrat contenders,... observers are not ruling out potential twists and turns throughout the dozen primary debates.<br />Oh Soo-young, Arirang News.<br />
