Republican Strategist Kimberly Klacik Announces Run for Baltimore Seat

Samuel Allegri
By Samuel Allegri
November 10, 2019Politics
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Republican Strategist Kimberly Klacik Announces Run for Baltimore Seat
An election sign is seen on the window of U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., in Baltimore, on Aug. 2, 2019. (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)

Republican strategist Kimberly Klacik said she’s running for the special election in Baltimore’s 7th Congressional District.

Elijah Cummings, who died of cancer on Oct. 17, held the position for more than 20-years.

“I am throwing my hat in the race for the 7th Congressional District,” Klacik said in an interview, reported the Baltimore Sun, “I’ve seen firsthand what a lot of people are going through. Our violent crime is up 52% in Baltimore County and it’s rising in Baltimore City, too. I don’t think it’s a coincidence.”

Klacik, 37, is a member of the Baltimore County Republican Central Committee and runs a nonprofit organization. She received national attention in July after posting videos on social media of trash in Baltimore, which were then shown by Fox news, prompting President Donald Trump to criticize Cummings.

Klacik has since participated in several events to clean up Baltimore.

“Talking to residents about rats and infrastructure and vacant homes, there’s so much that can be done,” Klacik said.

The district is 68 percent Democratic, rendering a victory very difficult for any non-democrat candidate.

Klacik has been vocal about Democrats not helping black communities. During America’s News HQ: Weekend on Fox News, she said that Democrats “actively vote against things that offer the black community more opportunities.”

She added that the Democrats put illegal immigrants’ before American citizens and that some living conditions in the border “were better than the living conditions in some areas of West Baltimore.”

She defended the president’s words during the dispute about Baltimore, when President Trump said Baltimore was a “rat and rodent infested mess.”

“He was literally repeating what everybody has been saying for years,” she said.

She went on to say change is needed, not just in Baltimore, but also in Capitol Hill.

“First of all, they’re not getting any work done—if we’re going to be honest,” she said during the interview. “But also, we need stronger Republican voices against socialism, against the ‘Squad’…just helping with his policies and draining the swamp. And I think, honestly, the American people need stronger voices on transparency within Congress.”

As for the democratic candidates, former NAACP President Kweisi Mfume announced plans to re-take the seat he held from 1987 to 1996. Former Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, and Delegate Talmadge Branch, are looking to run for the seat, as well.

“I’ve decided I’m going to do it,” Branch said in an interview with The Baltimore Sun. “I met with my committee last night. They agreed I should move forward with it.”

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