Team Trump Turns Losing Candidate Into Right-Wing Media Star and RNC Speaker With Video Claiming ‘Black Lives Don’t Matter to Democrats’ – By Peter Montgomery (Right Wing Watch) / Aug 24 2020
President Donald Trump, his 2020 campaign, and Republican political and media figures are championing Black Republican congressional candidate Kimberly Klacik, who has almost no chance of defeating Democratic opponent Rep. Kweisi Mfume in Maryland’s 7th Congressional District this year but has nevertheless been given a slot to speak at the Republican National Convention Monday.
Klacik took just 25 percent of the vote in the April special election to fill the seat left vacant in October when Baltimore’s Rep. Elijah Cummings died. Klacik does not live in the district and and her electoral prospects are unlikely, so why is she speaking at the Republican National Convention? Right-wing political operatives and right-wing media have joined forces to turn Klacik into a Republican sensation with a campaign video designed less to promote her congressional candidacy than to advance President Donald Trump’s reelection strategy.
Klacik made a bit of a splash last summer by filming and posting videos about trash and illegal dumping at a time when Trump was sparring with Cummings, who was leading investigations into members of the Trump administration as chair of the House Oversight and Reform Committee. Trump trashed the city as a “rodent-infested mess” and retweeted Klacik’s video of blight. After Cummings died, Klacik made a run for his seat.
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