GOP congressional candidate Kimberly Klacik – whose video about “the reality for black people” went viral in Baltimore – will speak at this week’s Republican National Convention, officials announced Sunday.
Klacik, who runs for the late Rep. Elijah Cummings’ chair caught the president’s attention with her video, in which she accused Democrats who had ruled the city for decades, making it a cesspool of poverty and crime.
“Kimberly will work with the Trump administration and we will bring Baltimore back, and fast,” the president posted Tuesday on Twitter. “Don’t blow it Baltimore, the Democrats have destroyed your city!”
“This is the reality for black people every day: collapsing infrastructure, abandoned homes, poverty and crime. Baltimore has been run by the Democratic Party for 53 years. What is the result of their decades of leadership? ”Said Klacik, who is on the RNC ladder to speak Monday.
She is Challenging Rep. Kweisi Mfume, the former head of the NAACP.
Also from the convention, Rep. Jeff Van Drew, New Jersey, speaks, who last December jumped parties from Democrat to Republican.
He is scheduled to speak on the final night of the nominating convention Thursday.
Van Drew, whose district went for a 5 percent margin for Trump in 2016, said he did not think the president’s dealings with Ukraine warranted justification.
He was one of two Democrats who voted against the measure in the House. Rep. Collin Peterson of Minnesota was the other.
Van Drew is challenged by Democrat Amy Kennedy, the wife of former Rep. Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island.
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