How the US far-Right is trying to win Brazil's election

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Oct 28, 2022
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The result of Brazilian elections pass by the United States. Key actors of the US alt-right are engaged in a hemispheric campaign to denigrate elections and democracy in the South American country. (+)

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How the US far-Right is trying to win Brazil's election
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Names like Steve Bannon, Donald Trump Jr, Matthew Tyrmand and Jason Miller are engaged in it.

Lies about fraud in elections and a "communist" scare are some examples of the narratives being pushed to vamp up support for extremist right wing populists and would-be autocrats.(+)
2:15 PM · Oct 28, 2022

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/brazil-jair-bolsonaro-us-far-right-donald-trump-steve-bannon-eduardo/


On 2 October, Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court announced that Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the Leftist leader and former president, had won the popular vote in the first round of the country’s presidential election – receiving six million more votes than incumbent right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro.

The next day, Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s former chief strategist and a family friend of Bolsonaro’s, took to his podcast, ‘Bannon’s War Room’, to raise allegations of electoral fraud. Bannon was joined by Matthew Tyrmand, a board member for Project Veritas – a discredited US group that uses hidden cameras to supposedly ‘expose’ leftist journalists – and Darren Beattie, a former Trump speechwriter who was fired in 2018 after it emerged he had met with white nationalists two years earlier. (Beattie told US media he had said “nothing objectionable” at this meeting.)

On the podcast, all three men expressed their doubts over Lula’s win. “There was fraud there,” Tyrmand said, based on the fact that early results had shown a lead for Bolsonaro before ballots from the north-eastern region, Lula’s stronghold, were counted.

Bannon agreed, claiming a Bolsonaro defeat was “mathematically impossible”, as his party had won eight seats in the simultaneous Senate election, becoming the largest bloc. There was evidence, Tyrmand suggested, of fraud in the electronic ballots to favour Lula.

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Shocking scene right now in São Paulo, as Bolsonarista Congresswoman Carla Zambelli pulls a gun on the street. I just arrived at this bar and employees confirmed she charged in here armed

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URGENTE! Carla Zambelli saca arma e aponta no meio da rua para pessoa na rua. Incidente ocorreu agora na travessa da Joaquim Eugênio Lima com a Lorena. Divulguem
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2:05 PM · Oct 29, 2022