THE BURNED OVER DISTRICT

Yesterday Trump's Ohio Mahoning County chair was sure PBO caused racism and by the end of the day she was out on her ass and a new county chairman was named. Maybe it was why she was chosen, but Tracy Winbush, who replaced Kathy Miller as Trump County Chair in Mahoning County, is black. She also had the honor of fiercely opposing Donald Trump in the primaries.

Donald Trump’s campaign has replaced an Ohio official who was forced to resign over a racism controversy with a woman who has previously said she was “offended as an African American” by the Republican candidate and confessed she had “bashed the crap out” out of him in the past.

Tracey Winbush is also on record stating Trump had “denigrated the Republican party”.

The Trump campaign announced it had appointed Winbush as its new chair in Mahoning, a crucial Ohio county, on Thursday, shortly after the previous chair resigned over comments she made about racism in a Guardian interview.

However, within hours of Winbush being named as her replacement, it emerged that she fiercely opposed Trump before his nomination for the White House.

An Ohio reporter also claimed to have obtained evidence that Winbush had begun deleting previous tweets. Her timeline suggested she had used a piece of software to suddenly delete over 17,000 past tweets. One included a link to a news story that had described Trump as “a racist, sexist, demagogue”. Another shared news story described Trump as a ‘Godless Man.’

A YouTube clip from an Ohio GOP meeting in April showed Winbush telling fellow Republicans that she and a colleague had been “offended as African Americans” by some of Trump’s comments and tactics.

“For those of you who know, I have a radio show and I have bashed the crap out of Trump for the last five months, six months, nine months,” she said. “And my listeners are going to kill me if I say anything positive about him.”

Late on Thursday, Winbush said in a statement that she was “proud to take a leadership role in Mr Trump’s campaign”.

Like Kellyanne she is flexible in her support, perhaps hoping for some sort of career boost from tying herself to the Great Orange Dookie. Certainly the Democratic folks in Mahoning county have some choice ammunition to drop on the Dookie Team.