
BY WILLIAM DOUGLAS AND STEVEN THOMMA
McClatchy Washington Bureau
WASHNGTON
At first glance, you might think the Democrats would have their easiest time ever of accusing the Republicans of waging a war on women, with Donald Trump at the top of the Republican ticket.
But there are three powerful reminders this week that the Democrats have plenty of problems of their own.
First, former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, former chair of the Democratic National Committee and prominent supporter of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, explained that Trump will have trouble with women at the polls because there are “more ugly women in America than attractive women.”
Then supporters of Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders unleashed a jarring stream ofvulgar, sexist attacks on the chairwoman of the Nevada Democratic Party after Sanders got bested in delegates by Clinton.
Now Sanders’ campaign is engaged in a war of words with current DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, accusing her of being in the tank for Clinton.
And, finally, Trump served notice that whenever Clinton and other Democrats slam him for objectifying women, Trump will hit back at Bill Clinton, as he did in a television interview Wednesday, accusing the former president of rape.