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Trump endorses state Sen. Taylor in Memphis’ redistricted congressional race ⁠61%

By Marianna Bacallao⁠10%

7/14/2026, 12:00:19 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 23 faulty reasoning types, including In-Group Bias, Negativity Bias, and Appeal to Emotion, with Ambiguity (Equivocation) as the most egregious example at 31.9% saturation with 91 hits. Analysis detected 780 faulty-reasoning hits from 285 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 56.9% and a BS Rank of ⁠61% (8,302 of 21,180 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 60.80% of the article peer group.

State Sen. 
Brent Taylor, R-Memphis, waits for the elevator while protesters against redistricting chant around him 
President Donald Trump has endorsed state Sen. 
Brent Taylor, R-Memphis, for the congressional race to replace long-time Democratic Congressman Steve Cohen. 
Whoever wins the Republican primary on Aug. 6 is poised to flip the district red. 
Taylor, along with other Republican lawmakers, heeded a call from Trump this spring to redraw the state’s congressional map to favor GOP candidates. 
The new map fractures Memphis into three different districts. 
Tennessee’s 9 th Congressional District, which long represented the city, now stretches from one part of Memphis some 200 miles to Franklin in Middle Tennessee, introducing more Republican voters into the Democratic stronghold. 
Trump announced the endorsement on Truth Social, saying that Taylor will “Unleash American Energy DOMINANCE, Keep our Border SECURE, Stop Migrant Crime, Ensure LAW AND ORDER.” 
“Brent is strongly supported by the most Highly Respected MAGA Warriors in Tennessee, including both of your tremendous U.S. 
Senators, my friends, Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty!” 
Trump said. 
“Now, from Collierville to College Grove, I’m ready to bring that same fight to Washington on behalf of the great people of Tennessee,” Taylor said on X. 
“I’m honored and deeply humbled to have the endorsement of the most consequential President of my lifetime.” 
Taylor faces a challenge from fellow state lawmaker, Rep. 
Todd Warner, R-Lewisburg. 
Warner has similarly aligned himself with Trump. 
During redistricting, Warner draped himself in a Trump 2024 campaign flag, wearing it like a cape. 
Also running in the Republican primary is retired U.S. 
Army Sergeant Jeremy Thompson, who has made little mention of the president in campaign materials. 
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285 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers35%attributed speech186writer words
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Selected voice

Donald Trump

96%flagged-word coverage
55 attributed words56% of attributed speech92% writer coverage
0%25.0%50.0%Unattributed Quote+47.3 ptsWriter: 0.0%Donald Trump: 47.3%47.3%Quote-first Misdirection+47.3 ptsWriter: 0.0%Donald Trump: 47.3%47.3%Indoctrination+47.3 ptsWriter: 0.0%Donald Trump: 47.3%47.3%

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

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