Seeking to energize his base ahead of November's midterm elections, President Donald Trump warned that "godless communists" taking over the Democratic Party pose "the most serious threat" to the U.S. since its founding as he addressed the Faith & Freedom Coalition.

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.