President Donald Trump has recently warned that communism will pose a threat to the U.S. if Democrats win in the upcoming midterm elections. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Associated Press.

"It's the biggest threat to our country, including World War I, World War II, Pearl Harbor, September 11th," he said on Wednesday, segueing into a political message as he visited the newly constructed Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota.

Last week, he referred to Democrats as "hard core, godless Communists" at the Faith & Freedom Coalition's 2026 policy conference.

Trump's latest round of attacks has followed primary victories by democratic socialist candidates. They are reminiscent of similar narratives he has employed throughout his political career.

But experts say his claims, echoed by Vice President J.D. Vance and other Republican leaders, are off base.

TRUMP: "It's becoming a communist party. These are not social Dumocrats, these are hardcore, godless Communists."

THE FACTS: No candidate openly belonging to the U.S. Communist Party has ever been elected to state or federal office, according to experts. Although there are fringes of the Democratic Party that have expressed support for communist ideas, experts say that they still advocate for a market-based economy and that it is inaccurate to paint the entire party with such a broad brush. Trump recently began referring to Democrats pejoratively as "Dumocrats."

"The reality is that none of these major political figures in the Democratic Party, even those further out on the left, are identifying as communists," said Marc Selverstone, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia's Miller Center for Public Affairs, adding that it's an opportunity to portray Democrats as marginal figures.

Selverstone, who authored a book on international communism, noted that Democrats who are more closely aligned with socialism and democratic socialism are still far from supporting basic communist ideals such as the abolition of private property or central economic planning.

Rather, democratic socialists believe in providing a more extensive social safety net within the confines of democracy. The movement often centers on securing universal healthcare, higher taxes on the wealthy and stricter corporate regulation.

Some democratic socialists belong to the Democratic Socialists of America, a political and activist organization — not a party.

Over the years, Trump has labeled his opponents as communists and discussed the effectiveness of doing so.

"All we have to do is define our opponent as being a communist or a socialist or somebody who is going to destroy our country," he told reporters at his New Jersey golf club in August 2024 while describing how he planned to defeat his Democratic opponent, then-Vice President Kamala Harris, whom he branded "comrade Kamala" in the presidential election.

Asked to comment on Trump's claims of communist beliefs among Democratic candidates, Kendall Witmer, the Democratic National Committee's rapid response director, said that the president is "grasping at straws" ahead of the midterms.

Olivia Wales, a White House spokeswoman, said that "the Democrats' embrace of socialism and communism is an existential threat to our country" and that Trump will "keep calling out their radicalism."

Communist Party USA has a small footprint in current U.S. politics. It brought in about 20,000 members over the past several years and is in the process of assessing how many are active, according to co-chair Joe Sims. He agreed that recent Democratic candidates cannot accurately be described as members of his party.

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