President Donald Trump on Friday seized on the electoral success of several democratic socialist candidates to ramp up his attacks on the Democratic Party, claiming it was being taken over by “godless Communists” who pose an existential threat to the nation.

Trump has targeted the Democratic Socialists of America after the party won big in New York and Washington, D.C., elections this month.

Trump has repeatedly conflated democratic socialists and communists; no communist are running on the Democratic ticket.