President Joe Biden is breaking out the Democratic playbook in his quest to defeat former President Donald Trump again, using many of his party’s more conventional lines of attack and hitting some of the same themes he used in the 2022 midterm elections.

While Biden often warns that Trump is a leader of the extreme MAGA movement and a unique threat to democracy, he also frequently goes after him on topics such as Social Security, Medicare, and abortion, which have been featured in political campaigns for decades.

“Trump’s campaign is weak and cash-strapped,” reads a Biden-Harris campaign blast sent Tuesday morning. “And in his rare public comments, Trump has embraced the same extreme vision and losing agenda — promising a ‘bloodbath’ if he loses, threatening Social Security cuts, and (again) endorsing a national abortion ban.”

Trump has denied all three of those claims.

The “bloodbath” comment folds into concerns that Trump is a threat to democracy but came as Trump was speaking about the automobile industry.

“We’re going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you’re not going to be able to sell those cars if I get elected,” Trump said. “Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole — that’s gonna be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country. That will be the least of it. But they’re not going to sell those cars. They’re building massive factories.”

Trump wrote on social media on March 18 that everyone zeroing in on the bloodbath comment “fully understood that I was simply referring to imports allowed by Crooked Joe Biden.”

On Social Security, Trump has repeatedly pledged “never to do anything to jeopardize” the program, and on abortion, he positioned himself to the left of figures such as former Vice President Mike Pence and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), who supported national bans in the GOP primary. Trump has instead mostly said the matter should be left to the states.

Republican National Committee spokesman Jake Schneider said Biden’s claims are “all lies” that reflect the president’s lack of a second-term plan.

“The only ‘bloodbath’ is what Biden has done to our country,” Schneider said. “Illegal aliens are pouring across the border, gas prices are surging (again), and the world has descended into complete chaos — while Biden has spent more time on vacation than any president in modern history, … President Trump presided over record economic success and world peace once before, and he’ll do it again.”

But Democratic strategist Brad Bannon thinks Biden is right to go after Trump on entitlements and especially on abortion.

“In my opinion, he has been deliberately vague about abortion,” Bannon said. “He doesn’t want to scare off the base, but he doesn’t want to alienate suburban voters in the battleground states where that’s been a killer issue. The best way for him to deal with [Biden’s attacks] is to say exactly what his position on abortion is.”

Trump said in a radio interview last week that “the number of weeks now, people are agreeing on 15,” indicating possible support for a 15-week nationwide ban. But in the same interview, Trump said, “It’s a state issue. It shouldn’t be a federal issue, it’s a state issue.”

It is that vagueness that Bannon says has left Trump open to attack.

The Trump campaign did not respond to questions from the Washington Examiner.

Biden campaigned hard on threats to abortion access and entitlement programs in the 2022 midterm elections, and his party was widely viewed as outperforming expectations even though it lost control of the House of Representatives.

“They’re coming after Social Security,” Biden said in October of 2022. “Now it sounds like, you know, ‘there’s Biden. That’s a typical Democrat saying Republicans are after Social Security.’ This is the one thing [Republicans] have said out loud. They’ve written it down on pieces of paper.”

But Bannon said Biden does risk becoming too focused on attacking Trump, which the president has increasingly done as polls show him behind in swing states.

“The president has to keep a balance between promoting his own accomplishments and attacking the failures of the former president,” Bannon said. “The reality is I don’t know how much further you can drive up Trump’s negatives.”