Brazil’s election ‘rigged,’ Trump claims without evidence

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Donald Trump claimed Monday that Brazil's presidential election appeared rigged, offering no evidence. The leftist candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won the vote on Sunday. Trump said he did not take sides but that the election "looked very bad." Defeated right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro has refused to concede, and his father, former President Jair Bolsonaro, was a close Trump ally. The claim follows recent right-wing election victories in other Latin American countries, which Trump's administration has celebrated. Left leaders have hailed Lula's win as a boost for workers' movements.


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