A radio talk show host and Ohio Republican Party official has been named volunteer chair of the Donald Trump for President Campaign in Mahoning County after the former chair stepped down for making racially-charged comments. But the new chair didn’t support Trump until recently. Ohio Public Radio's Jo Ingles reports.
Tracey Winbush made no bones about her feelings for Trump at the Ohio Republican Party’s statewide meeting in April.
“No, I don’t like Trump.”
Winbush, like many of Ohio’s political leaders, was unapologetic in her support for Governor John Kasich who, at that point, was still in the race. But there are questions about how Winbush can be a leader in a campaign she’s spoken out against. She also said this at that spring meeting.
“I don’t like Hillary more and at the end of the day, I would rather have Trump than Hillary.”
Winbush, an African-American talk radio show host from Youngstown, is coming under fire for erasing some 17,000 tweets. In one of them she called Trump a racist, sexist demagogue. In another, she called his budget plan ridiculous.
