Former Pennsylvania governor: More "ugly women" than "attractive women" in U.S.
There are inartful statements -- and then there are inartful statements like Ed Rendell's.
Rendell, the former Pennsylvania governor, said in a Washington Post story posted Wednesday that there are more "ugly women" than "attractive women" in the United States.
The context doesn't exactly soften the blow: Rendell was talking about presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump's appeal to voters in the trending-Democratic suburban counties surrounding Philadelphia, the area that effectively determines who wins the state overall.
"Will he have some appeal to working-class Dems in Levittown or Bristol? Sure," he said. "For every one, he'll lose 1½ , two Republican women."
Rendell then suggested that Trump's comments about women will be a problem for moderate suburban women -- especially, he says, the "ugly" ones.
"Trump's comments like 'You can't be a 10 if you're flat-chested,' that'll come back to haunt him," Rendell continued. "There are probably more ugly women in America than attractive women. People take that stuff personally."
