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Brazil Election: Trump Ally Bolsonaro vs. Lula Final Polls and Odds

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Brazil’s pollsters missed Bolsonaro’s first-round lead. Their final runoff surveys show him and Lula in a statistical dead heat.

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What the coverage shows

The Independent centers Flavio Bolsonaro and the family’s bid to regain power, while The Guardian US frames the election through the Amazon and what is at stake for rainforest communities. The Independent is the only outlet to foreground the Bolsonaro succession fight in its headline, and The Guardian US is the only one to turn the story into a podcast about the runoff and the rainforest.

Written by Crossfiled from the 9 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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