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WATCH LIVE: 1st Congressional primary debate with Blouin, Farrell, McAdams and Mohamed ⁠37%

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5/27/2026, 6:00:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, Halo Effect, and Appeal to Authority, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 23.3% saturation with 34 hits. Analysis detected 247 faulty-reasoning hits from 146 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 43.5% and a BS Rank of ⁠37% (13,481 of 21,198 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 63.60% of the article peer group.

After Utah's extended redistricting saga finally cemented the new 1st Congressional District, the four remaining candidates in the Democratic primary hope to secure their lead. 
The highly anticipated debate between the candidates features Liban Mohamed, the Democratic nominating convention winner, against former congressman Ben McAdams, state Sen. 
Nate Blouin and Salt Lake City tax attorney Michael Farrell. 
The 2026 Democratic Primary Debate for the 1st Congressional District will be held Wednesday, May 27, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. from the studios of PBS Utah. 
KUER will carry live coverage on the radio and online starting at 6. 
Find a station near you, ask your smart speaker to "play KUER" or watch the video feed above. 
The Utah Debate Commission is presenting the debate in partnership with PBS Utah. 
Fox13 News anchor Max Roth will moderate. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%KUER News: 3.4%KUER: 2.8%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 2.2%KUER: 1.3%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 12.3%KUER News: 3.6%KUER: 3.4%Availability Heuristic12.3%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 0.3%KUER: 1.2%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 17.1%KUER News: 0.3%KUER: 0.5%Hindsight Bias17.1%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 1.1%KUER: 1.9%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 23.3%KUER News: 19.4%KUER: 7.4%Framing Effect23.3%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 0.0%KUER: 1.3%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 0.6%KUER: 1.2%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 0.0%KUER: 0.3%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 17.1%KUER News: 2.9%KUER: 4.4%Optimism Bias17.1%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 1.3%KUER: 2.4%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 18.0%KUER: 6.3%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 2.4%KUER: 2.2%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 2.7%KUER: 0.9%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 0.3%KUER: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 1.3%KUER: 1.9%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 0.9%KUER: 0.6%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 19.9%KUER News: 0.5%KUER: 2.3%Halo Effect19.9%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 0.5%KUER: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 0.0%KUER: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 2.9%KUER: 1.2%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 15.1%KUER News: 0.5%KUER: 0.3%Primacy Effect15.1%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 0.0%KUER: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 3.1%KUER: 0.6%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 0.0%KUER: 0.4%Straw Man0.0%This article: 19.9%KUER News: 4.5%KUER: 4.7%Appeal to Authority19.9%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 0.2%KUER: 1.7%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 1.2%KUER: 1.1%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 0.0%KUER: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 2.8%KUER: 4.1%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 1.3%KUER: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 1.4%KUER: 0.7%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 7.0%KUER: 5.6%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 1.3%KUER: 0.7%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 17.1%KUER News: 5.2%KUER: 2.4%Post Hoc (False Cause)17.1%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 0.0%KUER: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 0.3%KUER: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 0.0%KUER: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 0.5%KUER: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 0.7%KUER: 3.1%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 0.0%KUER: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 6.8%KUER News: 2.6%KUER: 1.5%Ambiguity (Equivocation)6.8%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 0.0%KUER: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 0.0%KUER: 0.2%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 0.0%KUER: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 0.0%KUER: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 1.8%KUER: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 2.0%KUER: 0.8%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 0.9%KUER: 0.7%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 7.1%KUER: 2.2%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 0.4%KUER: 1.6%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 4.6%KUER: 0.8%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%KUER News: 1.2%KUER: 0.3%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 20.5%KUER News: 3.8%KUER: 1.0%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…20.5%

146 words analyzed.

Speakers

3speakers23%attributed speech113writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 12 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 25 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 22 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 26 words • 0.0% coverageKUER • 13 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 18 words • 100.0% coverageUtah Debate Commission • 13 words • 0.0% coverageMax Roth • 7 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

Max Roth

100%flagged-word coverage
7 attributed words21% of attributed speech77% writer coverage
0%15.0%30.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -26.5 ptsWriter: 26.5%Max Roth: 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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