#Viral Baltimore GOP congressional candidate Kim Klacik to speak at RNC

GOP Congressional candidate Kimberly Klacik — whose video about “the reality for black people” in Baltimore went viral — will speak at this week’s Republican National Convention, officials announced Sunday.

Klacik, who is running for the late-Rep. Elijah Cummings’ seat, caught the president’s attention with her video, in which she blamed Democrats who have governed the city for decades allowing it to become a cesspool of poverty and crime.

“Kimberly will work with the Trump Administration and we will bring Baltimore back, and fast,” the president posted on Twitter Tuesday. “Don’t blow it Baltimore, the Democrats have destroyed your city!”

“This is the reality for black people every single day: crumbling infrastructure, abandoned homes, poverty and crime. Baltimore has been run by the Democrat Party for 53 years. What is the result of their decades of leadership?” said Klacik, who is on the RNC slate to speak Monday.

She is challenging Rep. Kweisi Mfume, the former head of the NAACP.

Also speaking at the convention will be New Jersey Rep. Jeff Van Drew, who jumped parties from Democrat to Republican last December.

He is scheduled to speak on the nominating convention’s final night Thursday.

Van Drew, whose district went for Trump in 2016 by a 5 percent margin, said he didn’t think the president’s dealings with Ukraine warranted impeachment.

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 being challenged by Democrat Amy Kennedy, the wife of former Rep. Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island.