Maryland’s Kim Klacik to encourage Republicans not to ‘write off these inner cities’ in GOP convention speech

Pamela Wood and Talia Richman, The Baltimore Sun
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After drawing President Donald Trump’s attention with a viral campaign ad, Maryland congressional nominee Kim Klacik planned to encourage fellow Republican candidates not to “write off” inner cities Monday as she addressed the audience on the first night of the GOP’s national convention.

Klacik recorded her remarks in West Baltimore, the scene of her video last week, as well as the location for videos last summer showing trash in the area that also caught the president’s attention.

Her convention video was expected to be shown Monday around 9:30 p.m., when C-SPAN, CNN, MSNBC and PBS planned to run convention coverage. The four major networks — ABC, CBS, Fox News and NBC — were start their coverage at 10 p.m.

Klacik, who is Black, said Monday in an interview that she’s aiming to spread a message that Republicans should not give up on running in historically Democratic areas.