Journalist: <b> Every election year at this time the state government releases the financial disclosures that potential candidates must make in order to be eligible to run for office. </b> Among those making the required financial disclosure this year is a prominent local businessman, Arnold Bergeron. There has often been talk in the past of Mr. Bergeron' s running for governor, not least from Mr. Bergeron himself. <b> This year it is likely he finally will </b>, since those who have discounted the possibility of a Bergeron candidacy have always pointed to the necessity of making financial disclosure as the main obstacle to such a candidacy. In the journalist's argument, the two boldfaced portions play which of the following roles? ['Each provides evidence in support of an intermediate conclusion that supports a further conclusion stated in the argument.', 'The first provides information without which the argument lacks force; the second states an intermediate conclusion that is used to support a further conclusion.', 'The first provides information without which the argument lacks force; the second states the main conclusion of the argument.', 'The first states evidence bearing against the main conclusion of the argument; the second states that conclusion.']