A likely challenger to Mayor Stephenson in next year’s election has recently stated that the city’s budget is in shambles, citing as evidence the city’s overspending on transportation this year. Portraying the current state of things as intolerable is always in the interest of a challenger to an incumbent, but it is particularly unwarranted in this case. It is true that overspending is generally undesirable, but in this case it was both unavoidable and ultimately advantageous. Failure by past mayors to attend to transportation-infrastructure maintenance forced this administration to make emergency repairs that will lower maintenance and repair costs for the city’s transportation budgets for years to come.
In the argument given, the two boldfaced portions play which of the following roles?
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The first gives the position that the overall argument opposes; the second offers evidence contrary to the position being opposed.
选项是否正确？