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Brazil's election ignites MAGA's midterm warnings

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Brazil's election ignites MAGA's midterm warnings

President Trump and MAGA-world influencers are echoing Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro's claims of a rigged election after the Trump-aligned populist fell to the incumbent president in Sunday's election.The big picture: President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's runoff victory has been widely seen as a counterweight to the global right's surge in Latin America. But Bolsonaro, like his father, isn't accepting defeat.What they're saying: "It looked like another rigged election, frankly," Trump told reporters Monday.He added, "Elections have to be indisputable, and it looked very bad

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