Less than two months from Election Day, President Donald Trump on Thursday night stepped up his rhetoric about Social Security and other federal benefit programs by warning Democrats want to “destroy” them.

The president had not focused on the federal retirement, disability, and survivors’ benefits program at previous political rallies. But as the midterm elections near, he debuted some new — and sharp — lines at a rally in Billings, Montana.

He accused Democrats of wanting to “turn America into Venezuela,” which plunged into an ongoing economic and political crisis stemming from unsustainable social programs launched by Hugo Chavez’s government. “I don’t think so.”

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And Trump alleged that Democrats’ real plan is to “steal” and “rob” and “raid” Social Security to finance a grand social benefits program. Returning to the hardline immigration talk of his 2016 presidential campaign, the president charged that that alleged thievery would take money from American citizens and put it in the pockets of undocumented migrants who are in the country illegally.