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https://news.yahoo.com/brazil-presidential-election-likely-headed-004433879.html
Brazil Presidential Election Headed To Runoff After Surprisingly Strong Vote For Far-Right Bolsonaro
Travis Waldron
Sun, October 2, 2022 at 7:44 PM
Da Silva will still enter the runoff as a slight favorite to defeat Bolsonaro, but the closer-than-expected first round vote will generate concerns about the accuracy of Brazil’s major polling, which had suggested that Bolsonaro was far weaker and that da Silva’s lead would expand in a one-on-one scenario.
It will also likely fuel Bolsonaro’s skepticism of polling that suggested da Silva could win the race outright Sunday with a clear majority of votes. Bolsonaro and his supporters cast doubt on those surveys throughout the race’s final weeks, and will likely see the president’s significant over-performance as a validation of their skepticism.
Bolsonaro allies won gubernatorial, congressional and Senate races Sunday night, another sign of potentially underestimated strength of his right-wing movement. And what looked like it could be a runaway win for da Silva even in the event of a runoff now appears to be a competitive race.
“The second round will give Bolsonaro an extra month to cause as much turmoil as he can,” said Guilherme Casarões, a Brazilian political expert at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo.
A stronger-than-expected Bolsonaro, however, could also potentially win the runoff race, a result that would grant him a second term that he could use to consolidate many of his efforts to erode basic rights and Brazil’s democratic institutions.
“The odds look substantially bleaker for Brazilian democracy right now than they did 24 hours ago,” Filipe Campante, a Brazilian professor at Johns Hopkins University, tweeted as the results pointed toward a runoff. “Bolsonaro will have a real shot at winning the runoff, and in that case we are in deep trouble.”
Da Silva entered Sunday optimistic that he could pull off a convincing victory this weekend, especially after the release of two new polls that suggested he could garner more than 50% of votes on the eve of the election
>>17622989 Space Force Takes Over All Military Satellite Communications
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/maggie-haberman-trump-backed-himself-into-a-corner-must-run-in-2024/ar-AA12w8su
Maggie Haberman: Trump 'backed himself into a corner,' must run in 2024
Jenny Goldsberry - 3h ago
“I think he’s backed himself into a corner where he has to run,” Haberman said. “I think that he needs the protections that running for president [he thinks] would afford him in combating investigations that he calls a ‘witch hunt.'”
>>17623053 Iran Says US Agreed To Unfreeze $7BN In Assets After Release Of Father & Son
is this recent.
I thought Obama already unfroze all of their assets
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>>17623098 Biden: Jill and I will travel this week to Puerto Rico and Florida to meet with families and local officials who have been affected by Hurricane Fiona and Hurricane Ian.
hmmm….. I wonder which families he will really be meeting with
>>17623130 BREAKING: 34 US Political Prisoners in DC Gulag Demand Transfer to Guantanamo Bay to Escape Intolerable Conditions in Heartbreaking Letter
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>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/breaking-34-us-political-prisoners-dc-gulag-demand-transfer-guantanamo-bay-escape-intolerable-conditions-receive-rights-violent-foreign-terrorists/
Pope Benedict was a good Pope.
The black vote is going to deliver Rs a big victory