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Election expert responds to Trump's speech 58%
By Here44% Now Newsroom44%
7/17/2026, 12:07:59 PM
Topics: US Politics
BS Summary: This article contains 6 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Negativity Bias, and Burden of Proof, with Confirmation Bias as the most egregious example at 42.4% saturation with 28 hits. Analysis detected 168 faulty-reasoning hits from 66 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 55.1% and a BS Rank of 58% (7,831 of 18,332 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 57.30% of the article peer group.
President Trump called last night for action to protect U.S. elections, and he continued to make unproven claims about the 2020 election, which he still denies he lost.
Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd speaks with Rick Hasen, director of the Safeguarding Democracy Project at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law.
This segment aired on July 17, 2026.
Confirmation Bias
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Framing Effect
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Status Quo Bias
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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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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
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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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Burden of Proof
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Biased Writer Voice
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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66 words analyzed.
Analysis
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