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The president, responding to democratic socialist victories in New York, used similar language throughout the 2024 campaign.<\/strong><\/p>

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President Donald Trump speaks during a Faith & Freedom Coalition conference Friday in Washington. (Tyler M. Andrews\/The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

President Donald Trump denounced <\/b>Democrats as communists after self-described democratic socialists won primaries in New York this week, previewing a new emphasis for his campaigning in this year\u2019s midterms.<\/p>\n

While new to his recent speeches, the line of attack was similar to ones he used throughout the 2024 campaign and drew on a century-old right-wing tradition spanning the original \u201cAmerica First\u201d movement of the 1930s and the investigations led by Sen. Joseph McCarthy <\/b>(R-Wisconsin) in the 1950s.<\/p>\n

Although his delivery was quiet and subdued, Trump used demonizing and dehumanizing language to describe his political opponents and gave violent warnings about their intentions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re animals,\u201d the president said on Friday, speaking to Christian conservatives at a convention of the Faith & Freedom Coalition in Washington. \u201cWe have to stop this, this horrible thread of cancer that\u2019s permeating our country called communism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pointedly, he warned that communists often resort to assassinations, while speaking in the same Washington Hilton ballroom where a gunman allegedly tried to kill him during the White House correspondent\u2019s dinner in April. The suspect has pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully, we\u2019ll have a little more pleasant experience,\u201d Trump said of his return to the site, which also saw the 1981 attempt on President <\/b>Ronald Reagan\u2019s life. Private security guards stood by the doors inside the ballroom throughout the speech, while Secret Service officials wearing tactical gear held rifles just outside the doors minutes ahead of Trump\u2019s arrival.<\/p>\n

The crowd of Christian conservatives offered a few polite laughs as Trump began speaking about the threat of communism \u2014 such as when he said he \u201cwould be the greatest communist in history.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLadies and gentlemen, from now on, you don\u2019t have to pay any rent,\u201d Trump said sarcastically. \u201cFrom now on, anybody wants a house, don\u2019t worry about it. Just pick a house you want. Everybody gets free food.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the audience was mostly silent as he issued the most dire of his warnings, and Trump himself sounded less than enthusiastic while reading off the teleprompter about \u201cgodless\u201d communists he claimed were overtaking the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n

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Attendees salute and hold a hand over their hearts for the national anthem. (Tyler M. Andrews\/The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

The low-key delivery was consistent with Trump\u2019s other speeches this past week in which he sounded less fiery about the midterm contests than he has in past cycles. The president clashed with congressional Republicans this week by abruptly canceling his signing of a bipartisan bill to bring down housing costs and insisting they meet his demand to pass new voting restrictions.<\/p>

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Trump said communists pose a special threat to Christians, referencing violence in countries such as Nigeria, where the United Nations says<\/a> communism is not a factor and most victims are Muslim.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey will close your churches in this country,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThey will kill your people. And that\u2019s what they\u2019re about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump has attacked Democrats as communists before. He often called Kamala Harris a Marxist based on her father\u2019s economics research. He also used the term communist against New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, except during a three-month reprieve at the start of this year.<\/p>\n

The president\u2019s renewed focus came after Mamdani-backed candidates identified with the Democratic Socialists of America swept House primaries in New York on Tuesday. The left-wing group has ambitions to expand nationally but faces tests<\/a> in upcoming primaries in Denver, Detroit and South Florida, where DSA candidates have less of a track record than in New York, different demographics in the electorate and no mayoral standard-bearer.<\/p>\n

Trump accused Democrats of failing to resist the socialist advance. Earlier this month, moderate <\/b>House Democrats started a pledge<\/a> to distance themselves from the DSA by attesting their commitments to capitalism and centrism.<\/p>\n

Forty percent of Democrats have a favorable view of the DSA, the same amount who say they haven\u2019t heard enough to form an opinion, according to an analysis<\/a> of surveys by Marquette University pollster Charles Franklin. Among all U.S. adults, 21 percent were favorable, 47 percent unfavorable and 31 percent hadn\u2019t heard enough.<\/p>\n

Ralph Reed, president of the Faith & Freedom Coalition, called the speech deliberate and purposeful.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe felt like it was an important thing to say,\u201d Reed said. Acknowledging that Trump\u2019s current approval ratings are too low for comfort, but expressing optimism that decreasing gas prices will improve Republicans\u2019 chances, Reed said he thought Trump\u2019s remarks on Friday were a \u201cgood message\u201d for the midterms.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we do our job and they understand there\u2019s a contrast between a common-sense conservative and a crazy, it will definitely change these numbers,\u201d Reed said.<\/p>

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