The Dispatch21%
Trump’s ‘Rigged Election’ Claims Are Short on Evidence, Again 74%
By Stephen Richer0%
7/17/2026, 4:40:47 PM
Topics: Politics
BS Summary: This article contains 22 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Biased Writer Voice, and Confirmation Bias, with Ambiguity (Equivocation) as the most egregious example at 60.7% saturation with 88 hits. Analysis detected 694 faulty-reasoning hits from 145 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 66.9% and a BS Rank of 74% (4,487 of 17,018 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 73.60% of the article peer group.
President Donald Trump’s speech Thursday night on election administration surprised me.
He didn’t relitigate the 2020 election (although he did say we “can never watch a stolen election again”).
He didn’t attack Georgia’s elections, as many had predicted.
He had some criticisms of election administrators, but many more criticisms of his first term’s national security and law enforcement teams (it’s safe to say Trump hates Chris Krebs, his former director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure).
It’s important to remember that, unlike in many European countries, U.S. elections are largely governed by state law and administered in more than 9,000 local jurisdictions (typically counties).
There is no election mothership that can be hacked to corrupt the elections of the entire country.
Each state has its own set of rules and its own election equipment, unconnected to other states.
Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
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Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
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Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
7.6%Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
7.6%Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
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Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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145 words analyzed.
Analysis
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