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Rubio's Argument Analysis

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During the televised CNN Republican debate, on December 16, 2015, Presidential hopeful Jeb Bush, refers to Donald Trump as a “chaos candidate.” This comment commits the Ad Hominem logical fallacy as a personal attack against another person in order to shoot down the person’s argument instead of using research or logic to do so. Calling someone a name or insulting someone’s character is a common way of committing this fallacy. In the same debate, Presidential hopefuls Senator Ted Cruz and Senator Marco Rubio debate over their Senate records. Rubio suggests that he and Cruz records are the same, but Cruz explains that it is like a fireman and an arsonist having the same record because they are both at the fire at the same time. This statement …show more content…

Sanders emphasized how he stood up for the gun lobby that is in this country and how we should not be selling military style weapons. He insists his support for a background check on all to make certain people who should not have guns do not have guns which would include people with criminal backgrounds, people who are mentally unstable. This type of fallacy is known as the Fallacy of Relevance. Attacking the motive fallacy occurs when one person argues on another person’s position. According to the Daily news article, “Ransdell says budget cuts will be costly,” written on Friday, February 26, 2016, Western Kentucky University President Gary Ransdell presented a desperate future for higher education if the newly elected Governor of Kentucky’s budget cuts are approved. According to Ransdell these proposed cuts will affect twenty to thirty universities across the state completely closing programs and departments. This fallacy is known as the Slippery Slope. A Slippery Slope is if one thing happens or is allowed to happen, then that will lead to other steps and ultimately to a final outcome. In other words, if the Governor imposes the budget cuts then programs and departments will

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