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Lula beats Bolsonaro to win Brazil presidential election

Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was elected to a fourth, nonconsecutive term in the nation's presidential election , according to early results released Sunday evening. Why it matters: Lula's victory deals a setback to Brazil's right-wing populist movement and preserves a major counterwei

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What the coverage shows

Most outlets converge on Lula’s victory in a tight runoff and describe it as a historic or unprecedented fourth term, while several note Bolsonaro’s refusal to concede or efforts to contest the result. Reuters, AP, BBC and The Guardian also foreground post-election reactions and official results, whereas Fox News frames the outcome as a setback for the conservative side and South China Morning Post adds the China-investment angle in its framing. Democracy Now! is the outlier in this set, as its extract is about pre-election influences rather than the result itself.

Written by Crossfiled from the 36 headlines and extracts below, not from the articles themselves. It describes how the outlets framed this, not what happened. Open any headline for a summary of that article.

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How it broke

3 hours ago Associated Press LIVE: Lula supporters celebrate in Brazil
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