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Marlow: Maine Debate Proves Graham Platner Was Best Democrat Candidate After All 70%
By Breitbart TV81%
7/18/2026, 5:53:40 PM
Topics: US Politics
Keywords: The Alex Marlow Show
BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including Confirmation Bias, Hindsight Bias, and Unattributed Quote, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 65.4% saturation with 85 hits. Analysis detected 226 faulty-reasoning hits from 130 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 63.6% and a BS Rank of 70% (5,627 of 18,371 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 69.40% of the article peer group.
Friday on “The Alex Marlow Show,” Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow talked about Maine.
Marlow said, “There may have been a mistake made in Maine.
Graham Platner might have been their best candidate.”
*The Alex Marlow Show*, hosted by Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow, broadcasts coast to coast on weekdays from noon to 1 p.m.
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130 words analyzed.
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