NPR⁠84%

Hakeem Jeffries addresses Democratic Party divisions, says Trump is the bigger issue ⁠55%

By Michel Martin⁠0%

7/3/2026, 8:15:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Negativity Bias, and Optimism Bias, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 39.4% saturation with 76 hits. Analysis detected 386 faulty-reasoning hits from 193 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 52.8% and a BS Rank of ⁠55% (9,933 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 54.60% of the article peer group.

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries is making the case for party unity as this year's primary season exposes ideological divisions among Democrats. 
Speaking with Morning Edition on Friday, Jeffries was asked twice by NPR's Michel Martin how he would work with candidates who defeated Democrats he had backed in New York primaries. 
Each time, Jeffries returned to President Trump and the GOP agenda, saying Democrats are focused on flipping Republican-held seats in November, lowering costs and opposing what he called "MAGA extremism." 
He added that the House Democratic Caucus has long included progressives, New Democrats and Blue Dogs. 
Jeffries criticized Trump's decision to enter the conflict in the Middle East, saying House Democrats oppose what he called the president's "war of choice." 
In his conversation with Martin, Jeffries also predicted a bipartisan housing affordability bill awaiting Trump's action will become law and accused the administration of wasting FBI resources by revisiting claims about the 2020 election. 
Listen to the full live conversation by clicking the play button above. 
The digital version was written by Majd Al-Waheidi and edited by Treye Green. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 5.7%Goats and Soda (NPR): 3.4%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 5.5%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.6%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 16.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 3.8%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 8.3%Michel Martin: 0.8%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.2%Representativeness Heuristic8.3%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.8%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 3.1%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.4%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 30.1%Michel Martin: 10.6%Goats and Soda (NPR): 11.1%Framing Effect30.1%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.2%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 8.3%Michel Martin: 0.7%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.1%Status Quo Bias8.3%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 17.6%Michel Martin: 4.4%Goats and Soda (NPR): 3.4%Optimism Bias17.6%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.3%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 30.1%Michel Martin: 25.4%Goats and Soda (NPR): 11.3%Negativity Bias30.1%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 8.5%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.3%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 5.6%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.1%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 4.9%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 15.5%Michel Martin: 1.9%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.3%In-Group Bias15.5%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.2%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 3.8%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.8%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 5.2%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 1.7%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.7%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.5%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 1.2%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 3.7%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.2%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 3.4%Goats and Soda (NPR): 6.1%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 2.4%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.5%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.3%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 10.5%Goats and Soda (NPR): 4.4%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 1.2%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 0.4%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.7%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 21.6%Goats and Soda (NPR): 6.6%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.9%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 17.6%Michel Martin: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.8%Post Hoc (False Cause)17.6%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 5.8%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 9.7%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.8%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 0.3%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.5%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 1.2%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 9.6%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.5%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 15.5%Michel Martin: 1.6%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.3%Unattributed Quote15.5%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 0.2%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.9%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 39.4%Michel Martin: 15.8%Goats and Soda (NPR): 3.1%Biased Writer Voice39.4%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.0%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 11.4%Michel Martin: 3.6%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.1%Politically Left Leaning Bias11.4%This article: 0.0%Michel Martin: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 6.2%Michel Martin: 0.9%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…6.2%

193 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker54%attributed speech89writer words
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Writer's voice • 12 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 22 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 30 words • 0.0% coverageHakeem Jeffries • 30 words • 100.0% coverageHakeem Jeffries • 16 words • 0.0% coverageHakeem Jeffries • 24 words • 0.0% coverageHakeem Jeffries • 34 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

Hakeem Jeffries

100%flagged-word coverage
104 attributed words100% of attributed speech52% writer coverage
0%32.5%65.0%Biased Writer Voice+48.1 ptsWriter: 13.5%Hakeem Jeffries: 61.5%61.5%Unattributed Quote+28.8 ptsWriter: 0.0%Hakeem Jeffries: 28.8%28.8%Politically Left Leaning B-24.7 ptsWriter: 24.7%Hakeem Jeffries: 0.0%0.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -13.5 ptsWriter: 13.5%Hakeem Jeffries: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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