When candidates confront inaccurate, inflammatory comments

On Thursday, GOP presidential candidate Trump faced such a moment when a supporter at a town hall event complained about Muslims in the country and stated that President Barack Obama is Muslim.

[...] he is Christian.

Trump's campaign manager later said that Trump had had trouble hearing in the busy room, though the man had been amplified by a microphone and could be heard by reporters seated in the back of the auditorium.

In 2008, Republican presidential nominee McCain took questions from several angry voters that became a signature moment of the campaign.

First of all, I want to be president of the United States and obviously I do not want Senator Obama to be.

In 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney faced his own criticism on the campaign trail for failing to correct inaccurate statements, including those from none other than Donald Trump.

Ahead of one fundraising event in Las Vegas, Trump repeated his suspicions that Obama was born outside the country and therefore was unqualified for the office of the president.

Candidate Clinton had perhaps the best-known reaction to an inflammatory statement — though not one made to him at a campaign event — 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?"