Congressional candidate Kimberly Klacik said black voters “are definitely listening” to President Trump’s platform and messaging.
“We are definitely listening to that message, and it is resonating. This is an administration that actually has real results coming into the community,” Klacik told Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo on Sunday.
“A lot of people don’t talk about the fact that criminal justice reform is something that many black Americans thought President Obama would tackle. He failed to do that. He didn’t even attempt to do it,” she added.
Klacik is running for the late Elijah Cummings’ congressional seat in a Maryland district that includes parts of Baltimore. She is an outspoken supporter of Trump and said Sunday that he’s the candidate campaigning on an optimistic platform.
“They also saw, if you looked at the RNC convention versus the DNC convention, we seem to be the party of optimism and hope. You know, we talked about things we’re going to continue to do. President Trump talked about things he’s been doing, and he’s going to continue to do, and that’s what’s important,” she said.
“We don’t want just paint on the streets,” she added, referring to Black Lives Matter murals on some city’s streets. “We want careers and opportunity, and we want equality. And I think people are understanding that you’ll get that from President Trump rather than what we had in the past.”
She also discussed a new poll that found support for Trump from black voters jumped 9 percentage points during the Republican National Convention.
Klacik went viral this month for an ad that featured her “exposing what life is like in Democrat run cities.”
Democrats don’t want you to see this.
They’re scared that I’m exposing what life is like in Democrat run cities.
That’s why I’m running for Congress
Because All Black Lives Matter
Baltimore Matters
And black people don’t have to vote Democrat
Help us win https://t.co/CSOjc9aQlS pic.twitter.com/XnEDTaDDIG— Kimberly Klacik (@kimKBaltimore) August 17, 2020
“Do you care about black lives?” Klacik asked viewers of the ad. “The people that run Baltimore don’t. I can prove it. Walk with me. They don’t want you to see this.”
“This is the reality for black people every single day: crumbling infrastructure, abandoned homes, poverty, and crime,” Klacik said as she walked by dilapidated buildings. “Baltimore has been run by the Democrat Party for 53 years. What is the result of their decades of leadership?”
