INTERVIEW – KIMBERLY KLACIK – Baltimore-based Republican strategist running for the late Elijah Cummings’ seat
- GOP activist Kimberly Klacik running for Elijah Cummings’ seat after turning Trump on him (NY Post) — The Maryland Republican who set off President Trump’s Twitter tirade against the late Rep. Elijah Cummings over conditions in his Baltimore district is now vying for the Democrat’s seat in Congress. “I’ve seen firsthand what a lot of people are going through,” GOP activist Kimberly Klacik told the Baltimore Sun. “Our violent crime is up 52 percent in Baltimore County and it’s rising in Baltimore City, too. I don’t think it’s a coincidence.” Klacik, 37, posted a series of videos to Twitter in July showing vermin, trash, and abandoned homes in Baltimore. Trump retweeted them over three days — adding pointed digs at Cummings, a sharp Trump critic. “Elijah Cummings has failed badly!” he wrote July 28. “Baltimore, under the leadership of Elijah Cummings, has the worst Crime Statistics in the Nation. 25 years of all talk, no action!” Trump added the next day. And on Aug. 2, he goaded Cummings after a break-in at the congressman’s own home. “Really bad news! The Baltimore house of Elijah Cummings was robbed,” Trump wrote. “Too bad!”
- Kimberly Klacik @kimKBaltimore Nov 9: Time for a real squad! Let’s back Trump & find that money missing in Baltimore. http://KimKForCongress.com
- FLASHBACK IN JULY: THE FOX SEGMENT THAT INSPIRED TRUMP TWEET: GOP strategist calls Elijah Cummings’ district ‘most dangerous’ in America. GOP strategist Kimberly Klacik accused Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., of hypocrisy over his apparent concern for conditions at the U.S.-Mexico border over those of his own district. Appearing on “Fox & Friends”, Klacik discussed her recent visit to Cummings’ district, which she described as “the most dangerous district in America.”
- Elijah Cummings’ widow, says she will run for his longtime House seat. (The Hill) – Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, Elijah Cummings’s widow, will run for his House seat. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, the widow of the late Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), announced Monday that she will launch a campaign to replace her husband as the representative of Maryland’s 7th Congressional District. “I am, of course, devastated at the loss of my spouse, but his spirit is with me. I’m going to run this race and I’m going to run it hard, as if he’s still right here by my side,” Rockeymoore Cummings, 48, told The Baltimore Sun in an interview about a month after her husband’s death.
