When candidates confront inaccurate, inflammatory comments
Posted: Sep 19, 2015 11:32 PM EDT
Updated: Sep 19, 2015 11:36 PM EDT
By JILL COLVIN
Associated Press
... Trump, who has shot to the front of the GOP pack with his own controversial statements, did not dispute the man ...
In 2008, Republican presidential nominee McCain .... was .. quick to correct a woman who said of Obama: "He's an Arab" ...
In 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney .... declined repeatedly to correct Trump .. for repeatedly questioning Obama's birth certificate and place of birth ...
Candidate Clinton had perhaps the best-known reaction to an inflammatory statement .. when he inserted himself into a racial conversation by denouncing a rap star who'd said in a newspaper interview that, "if black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?" ...
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