Based on the given example, "Dan Richards is the best mayor Cooperville has ever had because he told me so himself.", the logical fallacy that is used here is known as D. Begging the question
This refers to the term that is used to describe and define the type of logical fallacy that has to do with using the premise of an argument to assume the conclusion and this is also known as circular reasoning.
Hence, it can be seen that from the given example, it is mentioned that Dan Richards is the best mayor and the premise that is given to support this given claim is that the mayor told him that, which shows that this argument is faulty and makes use of the premise of an argument to assume the conclusion and thus the correct answer to the given question is option D.
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