"We need that kind of leadership again," Clinton said Thursday in Nevada.

Such episodes have come to be known as "Sister Souljah moments." But Clinton, in this case, is actually underselling just how many recent GOP presidents and presidential candidates have had such moments on race.

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In 1991, George H.W. Bush vocally denounced former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke after the Republican won a spot in the runoff election for governor of Louisiana. Bush called Duke a "charlatan" and said he would support the Democrat. Here are his comments:

But when someone asserts that the Holocaust never took place, then I don't believe that person ever deserves one iota of public trust. And when someone has so recently endorsed Nazism, it is inconceivable that such a person can legitimately aspire to leadership in a leadership role in a free society. And when someone has a long record, an ugly record of racism and of bigotry, that record simply cannot be erased by the glib rhetoric of a political campaign. So I believe that David Duke is an insincere charlatan. I believe he's attempting to hoodwink the voters of Louisiana. And I believe that he should be rejected for what he is and what he stands for.

Bush and Reagan had also endorsed against Duke in a 1989 state legislative race that Duke later won.

George W. Bush had one of these moments in 2002, when he publicly rebuked incoming Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) for praising Strom Thurmond's segregationist 1948 campaign, calling the comments "offensive."

"Recent comments by Sen. Lott do not reflect the spirit of our country," Bush said at the time, even as Lott was attempting — ultimately unsuccessfully — to weather the storm and remain in Senate leadership. "He has apologized and rightly so. Every day that our nation was segregated was a day our nation was unfaithful to our founding ideals."

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Reagan, meanwhile, in both 1980 and 1984 denounced the Klan for supporting his candidacy.

"I have no tolerance with what the Klan represents, and I want nothing to do with it," he said at a 1980 news conference after the Klan publicly endorsed him.

After it nonetheless endorsed him again in 1984, Reagan wrote a letter to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights stating:

Those of us in public life can only resent the use of our names by those who seek political recognition for the repugnant doctrines of hate they espouse. The politics of racial hatred and religious bigotry practiced by the Klan and others have no place in this country, and are destructive of the values for which America has always stood.'

None of this is to suggest these Republicans didn't struggle with their own race issues during their campaigns and presidencies.

Quite the opposite, in fact. George H.W. Bush's 1988 Willie Horton strategy against Michael Dukakis to this day is regarded as at least operating in a gray area of racist political attacks. And Reagan's 1980 comments came as he was drawing criticism for making his first general election stop at the Neshoba County Fair in Philadelphia, Miss. — once a haven for racist political diatribes — and declaring, "I believe in states' rights."

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What Clinton is getting at here, though, is that all of these GOP politicians at least had their moments — moments of real leadership when it came to rebuking racists in their midst.

It's no coincidence she made the remarks the same day that her campaign released a video showing KKK members and white nationalists talking about their support for Trump.

Given Trump's reluctance to shift course on much of anything — not to mention his past failure to quickly and roundly denounce Duke or any self-proclaimed Trump supporters who engaged in racist or anti-Semitic attacks — she's basically daring him to not denounce this element of his base of support. And the choices for Trump are either to ignore it or to give in and do something that risks alienating key and passionate supporters. This is the central tension at the heart of all Sister Souljah moments.

Trump said earlier this year that he wouldn't be opposed to having his own such moment, but he hasn't.